The night is still eternal. The moon is still broken and chained, the fields of rye are still tall as trees, like a cold and lonely forest of pure yellow, of life forced to be.
The fire crackles and rattles and the flesh of what was once a monster, a beast, a Moon, is now ripped and devoured, is broken in pieces.
It no longer belongs to the starry sky and the darkest nights, is no longer a piece of nature that has stayed for far too long.
Now is just a trophy.
The fire shines red, shines blue and green and orange, shines white and black, glows and chases the shadows of the night away.
It illuminates the silhouettes of hunters and wolves alike, jumping, singing and dancing, drinking and eating.
The party shall go on and on, for as long as the eternal night lasts.
And in the center of the feast, surrounded by enormous wings of gold, by the fire that shines with all the colors in the world, still covered in shining blood, still tasting divine flesh in his mouth, still with the chase in his veins.
Dominick dances.
He spins and jumps, laughs and laughs with each step of a dance that he doesn't know, but that knows him.
Knows all that he is and has been, all the things he could be in a million different places.
His heart beats as fast as when he has a life on his hands, his face hurts with the smile on his lips, foreign and new, never so big, never so strong.
And his eyes never leave those black and red. They that capture him, that hypnotize him.
His hand never let's go of the white and cold one that sets his entire being aflame.
The world has shrunken to only Arlequin and him, dancing, howling, so, so close that he can't no longer feel when one begins and the other ends.
He can't remember how it is to not be one part of a whole.
He can't remember how it felt to be so alone he could no longer see color in the world.
In that moment, in the endless night after a hunt.
In that place, in a campfire the size of hundreds, in the corpse of a shot down Moon.
Dominick feels nothing but happiness.
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The Wild Hunt
RomanceTrapped in a home where he doesn't belong and surrounded by a town that views him as a freak, Dominick finds solace in the forest outside of his small town, becoming little by little one more of the creatures in them. But when he traps something he...
