LOGINImagine an energy vampire holding your hang through an open field. What do you feel? Vulnerability? Fear? Surprisingly this tantalizing whisper that she couldn't hear but feel, gave her warmth. As a fire made out of ice would. It's both a mesmerising and fearful experience, to both know and not know what you're doing.
It had led her to her studio, where she felt around the room. It was looking for something, whining. She then went into the kitchen, grabbed something metallic. Felt its edge and cut her index finger. Walking out she left small red dots on the floor, trailing her walk. She could feel it touching her hand; but to her, it was just a dream.
As she entered; the door slammed shut. But she did not shudder nor wake. She walked calmly to her easel, placed a canvas and painted. With her hand as the brush and her blood as paint, she said a rhyme that it told her to repeat.
"Take my hand." she deepened the cut on her arm.
"Wipe your tears." she woke up.
When she did, she didn't panic. She needed a moment to analyze the situation. The first thing she saw was a blotch of blood and her injured arm. Her hand shook and the impulse travelled to the rest of her body. Her vision blurred from the water in her eyes. The lights were off. Petrified, she screamed. Ran to the door and banged it with her good arm. She was in such a craze that she used her body to make noise, stamping her head against the door. The banging made her dizzy, nearly faint. The sight of blood and its stench made it feel unreal.
She whimpered and dined amongst the brushes on the floor as she fell from the pain. She closed her eyes hard enough to hurt her sockets. This was not a dream, but she wished it was. She kept calling out for her lover but to her dismay-was losing her energy to stand. While puffing and in a panic the door handle started to move. She watched it, as if in slow motion. Churning its way methodically; she froze. It twisted, painstakingly slow and dropped to the floor. Right in front of her. It rolled its way into the shadows and twinkled against the far end of the wall.
"Take my hand." everything stilled.
"Wipe your tears." she wasn't the one speaking.
"Drips of blood." she tried to stand but hit her arm against the wall. With a pinch of pain, she screeched as something moved towards her.
"Will lead you here." It showed itself. All she could hear was something static, blasting in her ear. She didn't realize that she screamed like never before. A hand crept out from the darkness. Like a human without skin, it was as if it was asking her something. To follow it. She watched the middle of its palm fold outwards like a letter. And she saw no blood, no veins. Only muscle. Before she could react; the door opened.
"Dona!" It was Harry.
She looked up at him and back at the room, and everything was ordinary. The only thing out of the ordinary was the knife in front of her and the cut down her arm. What looked like an attempted suicide to Harry was her worst nightmare. He had consoled her, kicked the knife away and hugged her. She was in such a self-imposed state, she didn't know how to react. She looked over his shoulder and saw, that the canvas- splayed across the floor. Was a finished painting of the one she saw at the Louvre.
She was wearing a classic trench coat, with a fedora and that hid most of her red hair. Sitting across from a concerned family, she stated."Like any private detective, I have seen many things in my years, even previously as a former agent."She took her hat off and entwined her fingers. "But nothing could have prepared me for what was to come." As the husband held his wife in his arms, she wailed as the detective continued. "I am sorry for your loss."
There she was. As a lusting satyr grabbed at a feminine figure, Dona was now the sleeping Hermaphrodite artwork. Approaching her from the rear, Harry thought she represented Venus, but, the front side revealed something unexpected.Why had she been represented as Aphrodite's son and not Aphrodite herself? She was stark naked, posing like a doll with no expression. He wanted to touch her, to stroke her cheek and feel the urgency of the scene in front of him. His chest was caving in, and he found it hard to breathe. The tears st
The doorknob twisted and a light twinkling of metal came from outside. With murderous intent, Harry flung open the door, clinging onto the arch in need for support. Like a cunning serpent, he entered the garden of artworks. Grabbing his phone torch; he lit his way through the gallery.The air was dry, and his sinuses gnawed at him. He sneezed so hard he stumbled into something near the wall. It was wet paint. The gallery was still in the making, the interior design was incomplete, but there were
No matter the room, the smell of rotting flesh followed him like a shadow. He had to steady himself on the walls, trying to escape the voices. Fervent wailing and inaudible speech vibrated all around him. He staggered his way to an unassuming door at the far end of the house.He turned his back to it as soon as he fell, rolling down the door with his stomach clenched. He held his head in his hands, shaken and confused he looked up. Looking down the hallway, the paintings and all their tumult ceased. He was now able to breathe,
*Trigger Warning* This chapter contains graphic contents.Breathless, he stood outside of Tony's residence. His throat was dry, as he swallowed in the sultry rage bobbing around his apple. He kept flicking his forefingers together. It was the witching hour, and he didn't care.
His ribs convulsed with every breath as he sat on the edge of the bed with his hands on his knees. Sweating profusely he tried to stand but rocked his way back to the bed. He felt groggy, a headache, was waiting for him along with the clutter of a new day. He stood and stretched his shoulders, twisted his neck and walked towards the studio.He'd find himself wandering around like a desert wind, without a place to rest. He tried to stay busy with something other than work- he knew that it was a bad idea to be enthralled by the