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'''"I WILL MAKE ME WHAT I MUST BE BECAUSE TO BE WHAT I AM IS FATAL." —[[Kerrev, the Erased|KERREV, THE ERASED]]''' | '''"I WILL MAKE ME WHAT I MUST BE BECAUSE TO BE WHAT I AM IS FATAL." —[[Kerrev, the Erased|KERREV, THE ERASED]]''' | ||
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Kerrev has a fine whispering voice and a fine whispering mind. "Come with me," | Kerrev has a fine whispering voice and a fine whispering mind. "Come with me," ey says, "I smell a smell of power, I taste a wisp of a waft of something to feed us." | ||
Kerrev adorns eyself in prizes, acquires attainments. Ey displays resinous [[worm]]s, maps knotted in umbilical cords and tangled in quartz storage. Ey pours handfuls of jangling coins into open palms to let the pattern of their fall suggest direction. Ey covers the body granted by the knife and vows to have better. If not the before-body then a new one, a better one, a whole one. | Kerrev adorns eyself in prizes, acquires attainments. Ey displays resinous [[worm]]s, maps knotted in umbilical cords and tangled in quartz storage. Ey pours handfuls of jangling coins into open palms to let the pattern of their fall suggest direction. Ey covers the body granted by the knife and vows to have better. If not the before-body then a new one, a better one, a whole one. | ||
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Kerrev's whispers break the tightening cords of the hum from [[Saturn]]'s rings. Ey tells stories of what-was and what-is and what-could-be through the journey. | Kerrev's whispers break the tightening cords of the hum from [[Saturn]]'s rings. Ey tells stories of what-was and what-is and what-could-be through the journey. | ||
"I will be beautiful," Kerrev says, and "I will be whole," Jjenr says, and "I will be myself," says a heretofore silent [[Subjugator]] called only the Ferrule. | "I will be beautiful," Kerrev says, and "I will be whole," Jjenr says, and "I will be myself," says a heretofore silent [[Subjugator]] called only the [[The Ferrule, Subjugator of Locks|Ferrule]]. | ||
"We will make ourselves anew," Kerrev murmurs, and all hiss in hope as painful as the touch of the knife. | "We will make ourselves anew," Kerrev murmurs, and all hiss in hope as painful as the touch of the knife. | ||