The Order of the Rose Episode Two: Devour
The Order of the Rose Episode Two
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| Drained |
Devour
Deep sleeps can be the most uncomfortable.
They can leave you unrested after waking. Drained. Somehow more tired than when you went to sleep.
It is the waking that does it. The mind's slow, exhausting uphill crawl from the bowels of wherever the sleeping mind resides to awakening.
A dreamless sleep slicks and greases the walls of that chasm, adding resistance to the climb.
A good dream offers no resistance at all and often leaves you quite refreshed.
Nightmares are just fun.
No matter how terrifying they may be, you jolt awake, heart pounding. You never feel more alive than when waking from a nightmare.
Then there are the sexy, erotic dreams.
Ironically, they can jolt you awake much like a nightmare, but often leave you wanting. Incomplete. Even drained.
Then there's whatever the fuck that was that happened last night.
I'm not even sure what to call it.
It wasn't erotic.
It was well beyond that.
Very sexy.
If fear had bedroom eyes.
Soul-drenching, in the best of the worst ways.
No matter how explosive last night's... how did Valentina put it?
Oh yes.
It will be in good hands.
...solo performance was, it was only a preview. A vignette of a dream state over which I had no control.
And, once again, Valentina had the starring role.
What she did to me in that dream made the Order's blood-sipping sessions seem like innocent child's play.
She didn't prick a little hole with a razor and take a sip or two.
She gorged.
Anywhere there was an artery.
No razor.
Just needle-like teeth and tongue.
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| Stealing Yesterdays |
I swear it wasn't merely blood she was consuming.
My life force was draining.
So were my thoughts.
My memories.
She stepped into my yesterdays and swallowed them whole.
That climb from the abyss to the waking world wasn't merely a struggle.
It was prey trying to escape an apex predator.
It was invigorating.
Frank aka Foxxfyrre
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