Monday, August 20, 2007

Ugh and a fire king

Not too much luck today, but I did manage to introduce Svar, the fire king. Right now he's still a good king, protecting the paper people from himself, but soon the excrement is going to hit the air conditioning, I'm sure. Here's his introduction:

For years, since the beginning of time, the sea had been licking with its salty tongue, lapping and fretting at pillowed lava and pools of molten sulfur. Time’s licking and caressing had brought forth, fitfully, the sharp outline of a fiery elbow here, the red hot dome of a skull there. Slowly the igneous body emerged, until he – the fire king – was whole. The fire king had a body that was alternately molten or combusting, liquid or burning, but his heart was solid rock, pyroclastic, broken fire.

I haven't yet worked the puzzle of "since the beginning of time" which, for a planet in Miriam's galaxy seemingly wouldn't be very long, but somehow I think this is an ambiguity that I may want to leave open.

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