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shackles
They were conceived where first he woke to darkness, from the steel umbilical wrapped around the crumbling stone that bore him. But he did not see them, having eyes only for the bright moon above him, a dazzling false sun illuminating the night sky.
Re-forged, the cold metal was twisted around his wrists and neck, and again around his ankles, until one might have thought him stillborn. Yet he would not see them still, lost in the new and unchanging world he had been plunged into, trailing behind a second sun.
For an eternity they held him in the earth where he had been born, and then he could not see them, reaching only towards the light and warmth beyond his grasp, until his sun returned, and they seemed to melt away as if they had never been.
but
they remain still, coiled around his every word and action, beneath his every thought and every instinct. Can you not see them?
They were conceived where first he woke to darkness, from the steel umbilical wrapped around the crumbling stone that bore him. But he did not see them, having eyes only for the bright moon above him, a dazzling false sun illuminating the night sky.
Re-forged, the cold metal was twisted around his wrists and neck, and again around his ankles, until one might have thought him stillborn. Yet he would not see them still, lost in the new and unchanging world he had been plunged into, trailing behind a second sun.
For an eternity they held him in the earth where he had been born, and then he could not see them, reaching only towards the light and warmth beyond his grasp, until his sun returned, and they seemed to melt away as if they had never been.
but
they remain still, coiled around his every word and action, beneath his every thought and every instinct. Can you not see them?
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