The Ulangar: Book II, Part 3

This continues Book II of the epic I wrote between 1991 and 1996.

Lamaraz awoke with a start a pant

and was falling through a reddened void

where only he and darkening red flurted finely

in a drunken dance which seemed to invoke

before his face a ground a mound all round

hard and unyielding to ameshofflesh

Lamaraz's body shook with impact

and he crawled to stand

and spied the rock mountain under

vision aswirling in a blurred landscape

once here now there never alike but red

yellow yarn in confusing knots no longer threaded the land

this being reserved for naturalé real only real though the

skeletons draped in shadows

swirled notly as though the yarnéd

needle held their stable shape togethim

with large rusted

iron weapons flinging merceless

shapes with wicked edge while

Lamaraz shook about in a violent

dance summoning Bacchus and neared the arm-y marching

in a moblike order striving to surround

the Real but a foot shot out

and split a Shadow's skull and all

Shadows shattered shards which

sliced the skin of Lamaraz

ripped and burned and seared

Ulangar

and the dead-knot fell to the earth

and all senseless timeless vanished with the use of his eyes

Ulangar woke with a gentle rumbling

his chest bandaged and head swirling

For a few minutes he sat

trying to remember what happened

and where he was

but instead nothing revealed itself to him

only a blur of red and shadow glass sprayed across his sight

The head stopped its whirl and saw it was in room

in bed with white sheets and green walls

and white stool and white table

The room was ten feet square

and there was the rumbling mumbling rumbling

At this time he noticed Daleth

for it opened wide and silent

and in came a white form in the same style

its long curly hair rolled down

the back and around the small breasts

Lamaraz stared at the form as it turned to face him

as small forest eyes near the nose

looked back in astonishment and dread

He stood from the bed weakly and the metallic tray

clattered to the floor from trembling arms

and the bandages fell to his feet

to reveal unscathed flesh dark and hard

Screaming she left and soon sirens were heard among the rumbling

and from hidden places a countdown began

and by no means apparent the doorway vanished

The counting ended and the room shook with monstrous vibrations

as Nai No Kami trembles the earth with his fists

Minutes later the door opened in the same manner it was closed

and Gastrov entered the room in their green and black

and chained Lamaraz to immobility and shielded his eyes with cloth

and exited the room with the sack