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- | There Ain't No Justice |
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- | #79 |
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- To Sleep, Perchance to Dream...
- by Tal Meta
-
- Flying.
-
- Skimming along the streets, maybe eight or nine feet in the air. Houses slide
- by, darkness still lurking within them. The world is asleep, and so am I.
-
- Out of the corner of one eye, I spot a flash of white, as it leaps a hedge
- and hides behind the corner of a house. I stop, hovering in midair, to watch.
- My attention thus diverted, I barely notice in time the second flash of white
- coming up on my blind side, and I sense something vaguely feline in its form
- as I quickly turn and regard the threat.
-
- Power leaps from my fingertips, blasting the creature so unwise as to hunt
- me. It is (was) a white bengal tiger. It's mate fixes me with a feral stare,
- as it leaps over someones stack of garbage cans and slowly pads in my
- direction.
-
- Its body is sleek, beautiful and deadly. But its not enough. I cast my will
- upon its form and change it... its body becomes sleeker still, its gait
- becomes bipedal. Its forepaws lengthen into true hands, with claws still
- attached. The eight tiny nipples lining its belly migrate upwards, melding
- into four graceful, humanlike breasts. I change the shape of its skull
- slightly, lengthening the hair on its head, until it is something half
- tigress, half human.
-
- Finally, I change its hunger, and it smiles at me with a come-hither smile.
- She glides into my embrace, the soft fur of her body tickling mine. Her claws
- draw tiny red lines upon my back as I entwine my tongue with hers, my hands
- cupping her wonderfully silky breasts. I take a step back from her for a
- moment, and she frowns.
-
- With my left hand I reach for something in midair, and grasp *something*. The
- street behind us peels away to reveal sumptuous bedroom, and with a grin she
- leaps past me to the bed. I join her there, and begin to nuzzle her neck, and
- discover I haven't hands enough to fondle all her breasts at once.
-
- Sitting up for a moment, I flex my body like _so_ , and another pair of arms
- slowly form beneath my own. In seconds, I have hands enough for the task, and
- proceed to seduce my tigress.
-
- As we lie entwined upon the satin sheets, she nibbles my ear, drops of blood
- spotting the pillow beside her head. Her claws rake my back as I plunge
- myself deeper and deeper within her, until at last we both climax
- explosively. I watch her as she dozes, and I smile to myself.
-
- The bed and my lover fade away. I draw my lower arms back within myself, and
- flex my back, and feel the wings draw themselves apart from my flesh. They
- finally pull themselves free, and with one mighty burst, I am airborne.
-
- The scene has changed. Dark spires of rock surround me now, and I can feel
- the bite of the wind on my pinions. The wind is no longer merely a force
- against me, it is a living entity. I feel it flow against me, and I can sense
- its updrafts. I catch one and let it bear me high above the spires. In the
- distance, I can see the desert to my left, and higher, proper mountains to my
- right. I choose the mountains.
-
- I soar over the final peak to find a deep crevase spread out before me.
- Within its depths is the movement of people, and animals, and carts. I allow
- myself to drop down into the canyon, and I look at the wonders of this new
- place.
-
- The people are of every hue. Brilliant blues, irridescant oranges, ebony,
- bone and every other shade you could name. Their clothing seems designed more
- for decoration than protection or warmth: some wear nothing more than
- breechcloths. My own skin has become the color of varnished mahagony,
- complete with lines of grain. My wings, once leathery and plain are now
- feathered in a riot of colors, some of which seem to change and run together
- as they move. I spy before me, perched up high on one of the cliffs, what
- resembles a great archway flanked by two statues that I know instinctively
- resemble myself. A flick of my wings and I am there, alighting upon the
- stone.
-
- I walk within the torchlit chamber. At the back of the room, stairs wind
- downward into the stone. I set my hand upon the banister and begin the long
- climb downwards. As I take each step, the texture of the air around me
- changes. First it is hot, then it is cold, and sometimes it feels almost as
- if it were made of a million raindrops, and at yet others it has the harsh
- texture of sandpaper.
-
- I notice that I, too, have been changing. My wings are gone, replaced by a
- long silken robe of many colors. I watch as this, too, changes, becoming
- clothing better suited to the waking world, not this mountain temple i had
- entered. The stairs finally level out and I find myself grasping a backpack,
- dressed in '90s casual clothes, caught in a press of people exiting some
- large building.
-
- I am walking along a slightly elevated street, approaching a bus stop with my
- fiancee. We step down off the sidewalk and take our places upon the benches
- there. To my left, I spot an old girlfriend, one I have not seen in years.
- She hasn't seen me yet, though. I close my eyes and stretch myself, reaching
- out with my mind to gently touch hers, as we used to be able to do.... I feel
- her glance my way, and I tremble with her at the shock of her recognition.
- She speaks my name... or what was my name, years ago. I slowly open one eye
- and look her way, finally allowing a smile to cross my face. I speak her
- name, and it echoes in my ears with the sound of twarted desires, and a
- mixture of memories, both good and bad.
-
- I turn to my fiancee, and introduce her to my old flame, and watch as she
- changes into the half-human half-tigress creature I had loved earlier. As she
- moves past me, i see that my old flame, too, has changed. Her centauroid form
- seems carven from a single piece of silver, and in her hands she weilds a
- staff. They fight, there upon the concrete, as the background slowly melts to
- that of an ancient coliseum, where ghostly citizens cheer and throw flowers
- upon the field.
-
- The shape of the coliseum draws itself about me, becoming more oval in shape.
- The stone softens, takes on grain, becomes wood. Soon I stand upon the decks
- of a massive sailing ship. I walk to the port side rail, and see endlessly
- stretching desert sands. I walk to the bow, and there upon the sand I see a
- thousand sweating backs, all pulling in unison to draw the ship across the
- wastes.
-
- Time passes. A large dark shape appears in the distance ahead, which slowly
- comes into focus, revealing itself to be a giant head. The multitude who bore
- my ship across the sands drop their towlines, and with much chanting, stride
- one after another into the open mouth. When the last of them has been
- devoured, the head turns its eyes to meet my own, and speaks a single word, a
- word which echoes in my ears, filling my mind, blotting out all other
- thought, reverberating, becoming faintly familiar, then changing tone to
- become...
-
- The alarm. I sit up in my bed, the grey light of dawn creeping into my room.
- Another day in hell begins...
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