TRACES Spring 2013 | Page 85

Existence is a humorous thing. It is a painful thing, an atrociously morbid

concept of reality that is too intricate to be understood. Maliciously, the

clouds over the dead field that surrounds the chapel churn. The steeple

of ruin has been covered by a flurry of cross-colored shades. Among

the many are the few that lie in wait, longing for the end. A spur of

curetted mystery adorns the fields as a wind of pale misery sweeps

through. It leaves behind a trail of belated answers, and a mass of

robes in black. The grim robed daemons stand shoulder to shoulder

on the brown grass of the fields. Chants of enunciated intuition strike

down the flag that pierces the reality. After every situation is a resolution,

in which the end is decided by its wide array of crowd. When that

crowd is empty, and the chapel seats are void of cloth, the outcome of

the situation is decided not by the crowd, but by the reality of the

situation itself. "When no season is dead is when they will come; a

bleak harvest will arrive with the coming season, and it will paint the

land with its blood and ash. The Harbinger will dance with his gleaming

silver blade, and behind will be the daemons that march in distraught

lunge. The march will distill fear, which

may

echo

across

the

world

that

is

so

obliviously

silent

to

the

fact

Moving Shadows

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