A Creative Outlet · 7:11pm Sep 5th, 2013
A visitor came to me last night; not the Princess of Nod, but a devil, here to make a deal, just for me.
A deal I accepting, fortifying the material in exchange for the mental, before I walked into the darkness, ready anew to strive against the foe.
Allies rallied to my cause, the battle long but hard won, the devil's gift living up to the letter of his offer. The price dims my triumph, the whispers stirring memories of woe.
The battle won, but the war remains. Questions linger: was this the turning point of the conflict? How much struggle remains?
The devil promises sure victory, and the wealth attendant to success, but the whips of dark shadow gathering tell me that should I let the devil grow comfortable inside my fortress, the Spiral Nightmare may reach out for me once more. And the terrible beast, the devourer of time, follows the devil. No gentleman it, waiting for a bargain to be made, the beast waits only for a moment of weakness.
Saturn and Celestia offer the shelter of dreams, and in a stolen hour I seize the balm of truth told, the crafting of prose and metaphor granting a smile, as these words end this non-fiction.
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I take it the Mephistopheles to your Faust has been tempting you as of late?
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The soil above accurately reveals the shape of that which it covers; just how deep are you willing to dig?
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Not quite...
Faustus (using that version of the name to avoid confusion with the creator of MLPFiM) saw that he had traveled all his paths to their ends, when Mephistopheles came to tempt.
I am in the middle of my journey, and my devil appeared as I surveyed the true scale of the mountain on my current path.
1330287 ... do you have that virus that was on DS9? the one where no one could talk straight? or are you among those one aliens from The Next Generation that spoke in phrases? Darmok?
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Why do you seek fish in the trees when the end of my beginning leads to the stream?
1330671 ... definitely the virus.