chapter IV
Chapter IV
THE LAIR
"Yes .. the monster lives in the lair... ha ha ha ha.. it is trapped".......~ The cage feels heavy at first for the monster. In turn, the monster itself, unpreventably becomes a part of the cage........ It slumbers for a while.. it isn't aware of it's own state, and, laffably; feels no threat..." yes....... ready for the slaying... "
She is sheltered, for the beast is too weak to touch her, and at it's greatest strength; she would surrender willingly.... He worries about the temptation... the sudden ,undesirable feeling of aloneness creeping back..... but she loves him still....(all of a sudden , everyone realizes that her thoughts are just a guess.. because nobody knew what Jane was thinking) she is not here... still.. ~Jane pauses, and picks up a pill.
"ohhhh.. Chilly in here" , he reflects..... His thoughts wander, and he sits down at the lair dining room... he drifts into slow, pensive thought, almost meditation, but; with a pulse.... he releases the Lock on the chair to pull it back on it's specially designed *floor gliding rail* which allows the chair to never cause that grinding sound that chairs on a tile floor seem to make... Jane was proud of that idea... he designed the Lair.. and now, it housed a silly contorsion of inadequacy.... the Lair is actually quite awesome, and, in grand measures, actually....
The floors are giant circuit boards , made out of steel, sitting on a metal frame , which serves as a floor... the lair is founded on solid bedrock, and re-enforced with solid stone brickwork... the interior is a vague comparison to Fred Flintstone's domain... Tile helps the effect of normalcy, and the weight alone, caused a major delay in the building process of the Lair , and called for an ingenius idea which cannot be revealed at this point... but I can assure you that there ARE quantom physics involved in it.
Jane has no idea whether any of the things he does are productive, or archetypal.. but he is aware of his responsibility...and it is ok to make your environment a place you want to hang in....
"Is the monster trapped for good?" she asks.. "I promise"... he slowly looks away, as the awkward silence deafens the crowd... she hinges on her tiptoes... toward him.. he blinks and smiles... his face goes sad.... the monster groans...
*end of chapter*
The room was disheveled... the smell of sex filled its' every corner... the drapes were slightly drawn, and the sun shone in through the cigarrette smoke...
Fast forward a hundred years; The couple stands on a street corner, with barely visible shreds of shoes on their feet... the rest of the cattle were grazing... yeah.. they were fucked... but they were still smiling... reverse back a hundred years. And it is not altogether different... the room sits atop the second staircase, on the seventh corner street in the multiplex condo-compound, sheep shelter-society advocated self imprisonment of a dwelling. The kinda place one needs escape from , if unwillingly put there.
But they smile too...
"the monsters are lurking, and dwelling on words. actions.." he mumbles to himself... the soft droning of the stereo awakens his drive.. he remembers the songs he sang to her. and, ............ pauses. "my longing to be is a wave on the sea.. I'm just a guy with a guitar in his hand".
She is there ... blazen awake... her fingertips burning with wanton lust. Her senseless screaming awakens him. It drives his arousal.... the stench of the meager surroundings seems less important... the shallow dips in the floor add to the rythm of their fidgeting.... they face each other, and stride forward, only to retreat as they pace ....... The wind throws open a window, the blaring stereo next door fills the room , it breaks their concentration , and they wander off... frustrated. Fast forward a hundred years....
She fights him off.... she tries... it is impossible... she sees his monsters , and they make her fierce.... she reluctantly wanders near him. The scene is quaint; nothing really wrong here... they smile, and she crunches up her nose the way he likes, and, she wears the shirt with the loose collar... she bends over purposefully to be coy, her blouse falls slightly open, and he resists the urge not to look. and steals a glance....... they are again , In love.... a blue sky fades out...
A Shadowhorse strides through the valley.
She is Beautiful. He despairs. The monster is not dead. it dwells further embedded beside them... It never sleeps... there are the others who distracted them. It makes him mean to her. It has no purpose but, for torture it exists. "The MONSTER NEEDS TO FUCKING DIE!!!" Behold the epiphany..."it's never me" Jane thinks to himself, and thus, for once revealing what he thinks... not any longer a guess... just there.. and therefore, true.
*end of chapter*
************ ****** Chapter VI** *********
The monster hates his bliss... the monster is jealous... "I wish I were him" ..the sad beast thinks....... "I wish I had what he has... I want his clout... I want his woman"
Jane, the creator of the monster, begins to wonder how much everything would change if the monster were not created... ... he opened the door... he guided it through the maze... fed it bones, and rotten mice... yeah... he he he.. Rotten mice... "hmmmm" Jane thinks.....
Rotten.
"What a laugh!! it seems the beast has yet again fooled itself into thinking it had been freed... when in reality it was just beginning to discern why it hurts so. " His roaring laughter echoed through the thick walls of the dungeon whence the lair hid.
*at this point*
it should be made clear that there is no need for panic. The lonelyness of the beast causes it to want to destroy hope... and Jane should feel remorse. It is noted that Jane was just one year ago guilty of the same thing, but to a different, more humane level... the insults and derrogatory statements wer concealed behind a line... Jane drew it, and the monster has crossed it... "pity it wasn't heeded... got to behead those".................................. " yeah... liquidated . Defective......."
so many days spent building back from the ashes to find a worse condition when so much had been done. It saddens Jane, but it does not phase him... his drive is the same.. "A new monster" ... "yes... a troll instead"
the beast cries..... it reckons that it shall spend the time foreboding alone, and angry.... hurt by its own hatred... by it's green envy... it's eyes capturing the hue of it's emotion........salivating for freedom... for respect... for acknowledgement...... knowing the wrong path is hard to veer from.... foreboding it's own demise...
knowing itself indeed IS .......................defective.
A sad thing indeed..
Jane counts down the minutes..
*end of chapter*
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