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Hob sees her for the first time shortly after meeting the Stranger in The White Horse. He will never tire of life but having Delight of the Endless as his friend makes everything more fun.
Or: When Roderick Burgess tried to capture Death, he got her little brother instead. When he tries a second time, he gets her little sister.
Or: To hope and dream is all you can do when being captured in a glass dome. But it’s hard to stay delighted.
Or: Hob didn’t think much about the rumours that Roderick Burgess has a devil locked up in his basement. But when he hears that he also caught an angel, he gets worried.
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Sometime later, and she can’t really pinpoint it to one single moment, she realizes that something is happening, that the universe is changing and she is growing up or at least growing older… She is no longer Delight; and the blossoms have already begun to fall in her domain, becoming smudged and formless, and she has no one to talk to… not even her brother, sitting only a few meters away from her, but still so far. He can’t understand and he can’t help her. She is no longer Delight and she feels how it tears at her, pulling her in two different directions and there is nothing she can use to anchor herself, nothing except maybe…
There is a pull in one direction, becoming her own opposite, turning everything she once valued upside down. But she doesn’t want to lose everything she once was. She doesn’t want to become Depression. She thinks of humanity losing Delight. It will not mean that they will not be able to be happy without her, but the universe is changing and if she becomes darker, the world will be darker, too. But it would be so easy to use all the hurt, sadness and despair the imprisonment caused in her. To use all the anger and hatred she has for the humans that harmed her. She would be terrible, yes, but she would be powerful, too. Nothing could ever hurt or reach her again; she would be able to keep everyone away. But it would also take away her emotions, make life dull and dark.
The pull in the other direction is weaker and at this point she has to fight to stay in this neutral place of no-identity. If she decides to take that path, if she even can take it, it will turn up all her emotions until she feels everything at once. It would mix up reality and delusions, and maybe that would take the pain away. Or maybe not. And would this be the better option, to become your own hyperbole? To become too much of yourself? Would she ever be able to have a clear thought again? Would she have to sacrifice her sanity? Would she even realize what she lost? Does she want to become Delirium? -
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