The painting in the dream lair
Astriferous Artifact
by
Little Fairy
Prompts Used:
"Gerri, don't run off like that again!" Spencer demanded, relieved to have found Gerri. "Time in this place is really fucked up. I blinked and lost half a minute. I also lost that zany character who led us into the Dream House in the first place. What is this place anyway?"
"It's a gallery of Grandfather's hopes and fears," Gerri said. "This area seems to be devoted to his incarnation as Serab. Most of these paintings are depictions of Ondina."
"So, basically, we're inside your grandfather's subconscious," Spencer noted.
"Yes," Gerri said.
"Well, that's a bit nightmarish. Quiet people do have the loudest minds, don't they? These pictures are beautiful but they're unsettling as all get out."
"Particularly when you read the poems under them," Gerri agreed. "Listen to this one."
Astriferous they
Deemed themselves, but they were low
Murderers were they
~Fae~
Note:
This is a Haibun, created for Team Netherworld's serial/novel in progress, Fetch. Here is the original post.
