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- {fon:hom11ff00 }
- SWIRL
- {fon:tri }
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- In the room the curtain was open but the blinds were drawn so that
- although the room was still lit, no one could see what was going on
- inside.
- He lay back on the bed, interlocking fingers sandwiched between his
- head and the soft, fluffy pillows which felt so cool against the back
- of his hands. His eyes were open wide and he traced the cracks and
- ripples above him; Slender paint-tendrils running across the length
- and width of the blue painted ceiling like the veins on some huge
- monsters' back. Synthetic organic.
- He then closed his eyes, becoming completely calm. Outside the room,
- the bustle and birdsong of daily life faded into an ignored murmur,
- still there but briefly unimportant in the room and thus, a low
- background noise barely audible. The unseen sun emerged form early
- winter clouds, lighting the room further and warming it near
- instantly by several degrees. The birds outside strengthened their
- foot-hold by increasing the beauty of their songs. Relaxation fell
- over the room like a thin layer of dust stifling both normality and
- urgency.
- He let his mind drift away on a gentle tide of none-thought,
- consciousness dislodging.-Not dislodging from his body, but from the
- outside.
- Only random flashes of electrified brain-chemistry reminded him of
- the worlds existence with tiny bursts of sun-yellow heat and
- birdsong. No longer was the pressure of his gravity upon the bed and
- the weight of his head registering, only the mild , warm sensation of
- separation, tethered to the quayside of the world merely by the fine
- line of the bird's chirps and cooings carried upon a stream of
- photons.
- Just over six feet above his head the ceiling began to ripple
- slightly. Gradually the the paint began to liquefy into a sticky,
- lapping consistency and yet stayed on the ceiling as if through shear
- determination or a lack of respect for the forces of gravity. The
- cracks and ripples had both multiplied and solidified to thin,
- stringy tentacles barely concealed beneath the blue chemical goo.
- Organic feelers and tentacles writhing through and beneath the liquid
- pseudo-gossamer in a sensual maelstrom-dance with their own
- discordian rhythms.
- A slowing, a focus, and the tendrils began to interact with new
- purpose. Slowly, almost lazily the tendrils that had been so content
- in their mingled chaotic dance with one another started to emerge
- uncovered from smooth, lapping paint; Sinewy veins of red and blue
- lowering gracefully from the ceiling into the warm, defused light of
- the room untangling into thick, straight bunches converging above
- him. The veins were joined by more of either red or blue colour and
- of slightly varying thickness on their slow and deliberate journey
- towards the male that lay so peacefully on the bed. About three
- inches above him there was hesitancy. They hanged, waiting to
- inverted attention, chaotic and also communal, proud looking in their
- new, rigid state.
- The vein-things knew where to go, individuals working together, now
- a thick batch fully the size of the king size single bed on which he
- lay. They raised, drawing back a full two feet. After a few seconds
- of inactivity thicker veins, about the size of arteries descended, no
- more than thirty in number, dividing into groups of five, each group
- going to different areas of his body. Two groups moved to his outer
- thighs on either side, two to his mid section and two to his
- upper-arms. They began tentatively feeling him ; The roughness of his
- jeans, his ribs through his T-Shirt and the skin of his arms,
- spreading slightly, attempting to push between his body and the bed.
- He felt the veins, gentle and nervous on him, but was not at all
- panicking. He had been secretly expecting this to happen for what was
- perhaps the longest time. He had been waiting. Consciously or
- subconsciously he wasn't sure. He was perfectly calm and comfortable,
- except the veins were tickling slightly, especially on his sensitive
- upper-arms. When the veins had worked themselves under him, and
- curled around enough to provide a firm grip, nearly one hundred more
- slender veins descended, the arteries lifted him a little and the
- smaller veins converged on other parts of him on all sides, going
- under and around the outer extremities of his limbs, his torso,
- waist, hands, feet and finally the ten or so left of the mobilized
- force cradled his lolling head. Lifting it slightly to once again
- flatten him out. His relaxation increased. He could feel the blood
- coursing through these veins, a half-heard flow mixing with his heart
- beat; slightly strengthening the tether on his mind, allowing him to
- drift a little further. They were slightly firm, reassuring, and warm
- through his clothes and against his skin. He lay back content like a
- babe in his mother's arms. Those veins that had not been needed began
- to disappear back into the blue syrup as the ones which held him mere
- inches above the bed improved their hold. Once the other had
- retreated into the ceiling he felt the arteries relax and tense, then
- he was slowly drawn up to the ceiling, into it, and then he was gone.
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