IN> "The Waters will Rise!" setting: Janus

[John Dallman]

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<10d3b5c20803100820h20fe0938pdd6496871976f1a7 at mail.gmail.com>, 
st0fkillers at gmail.com (-=|horsefly|=-) wrote:

> At every charnal scene, he'd slowed to inspect the dead, check for
> survivors--never any survivors, damn them all to Hell!--and then
> pressed on, faster than before. His brother was alive, but unlike the
> last time, Janus would make sure he was there when he was needed.
> Oannes had changed, but the Wind had never cared about the shape of
> The Waters. His brother was alive, and even if it killed him, he would
> make certain the Waters Rose and stayed Risen. He ran on.

In some ways, Janus is the most elemental of all Superiors. You can 
extinguish fire. You can dry up water. You can reduce stone to sand. But 
unless you get rid of air entirely - which is difficult, given the 
nature of the Symphony - you can't stop the wind and make it stay 
stopped. You can't impress it. You can't kill it. It's relentless. 

By the way, the original piece gains considerable impact if read to 
background music of Beethoven IX, end of the third movement and start of 
the fourth, the _Ode to Joy_. 

-- 
John Dallman, jgd at cix.co.uk, HTML mail is treated as probable spam.