The Rising - Ennead 2

Scene 13.3 - Sleeping with the Enemy

The scene upon which we are fixed follows the giant. He 'shifts to a small, spartan, room to change into an identical get up as the one he was in before. He then dreamcasts away again.

This time, he skims through the dreamscape till he arrives in a large stone room. The room is an audience chamber for one of the most powerful persons amongst the Pathed.

She naps in the huge, blocky obsidian chair that counts for her throne. Her face carries all the innocence of childhood as she breathes deeply and gently. Her dark chocolate skin is set off by the puffy red-velvet pillow on which she lies.

She looks like a child, and perhaps for all intents and purposes, she is. However, those who know the world behind the veil understand that Yaa Asantewaa Boateng, Dream Mother of the First Society, is not a force to be trifled with.

Boris stands over her for a full minute before she wakes. Her eyes flutter open and focus on her surroundings: the empty audience hall and her sole retainer.

"Boris, my faithful old bear. Where have you been?"

"Ah Mama, you know this bear," Boris growls in a thick Ukrainian accent "I go here, I go there, I go everywhere!"

A grin breaks out on the Fae's face and she giggles.

The giant smiles fondly and then continues to say, "The meetings start soon. Your honoured childrens await Mama."

Yaa moans and then stretches before she slowly sits up, "You know, I really wish I didn't have to."

"But you will Mama. This big bear will make sure. Da?"

The child leader of the Faerie hops down from her throne and holds up her arms. "Then, you shall carry me Boris."

"Of course!" The giant chuckles, groaning dramatically as he hoists her onto his shoulders, "Now. We go?"

"Yes darling," the Fae sighs from her mount, "it's about the massacre isn't it? I couldn't skip even if I wanted to."

The giant ambles awayas the scene shatters, ending Kelly and Aunt Phyllis' rather intrusive spyingsession.

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