Adam = (not!) Cthulhu , Kris = IDEK, Pt.2
anonymous
March 17 2010, 18:59:06 UTC
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Here's the story: when Kris is three, his parents take him to a house in Louisiana, to a room with no window and eleven other children, and leave him there to die.
He doesn't.
Instead, he sees a man walk through the door-through a closed door-and looks at him, and the man looks back and that, that changes everything. None of the other children notice. Not even when the man kneels in front of Kris and puts a large hand on his face, his rings cool and hard against Kris' cheek.
(The rings are many and strange. They twist, ever so slightly, so gently, on Adam's fingers. Kris will spend years watching them turn, and yet never recover from that first, tickling shock of feeling silver be live on his jaw.)
He asks Kris' name (Kristopher with a K), age (five and three days), if he's scared (no) or tired (no) or hurt (no). He asks about Kris' parents (no). He asks if Kris knows where he is (no), he asks likes magic tricks (yes), and then he smiles--stupid, blind fuckers--and picks him up, an iron arm under Kris' knees, big palm flat on his back.
"Baby," he says in a voice unlike anything Kris has ever known, "you are a wonder."
So in a way his parents succeed; the monster gets Kris.
Here's the story: when Kris is three, his parents take him to a house in Louisiana, to a room with no window and eleven other children, and leave him there to die.
He doesn't.
Instead, he sees a man walk through the door-through a closed door-and looks at him, and the man looks back and that, that changes everything. None of the other children notice. Not even when the man kneels in front of Kris and puts a large hand on his face, his rings cool and hard against Kris' cheek.
(The rings are many and strange. They twist, ever so slightly, so gently, on Adam's fingers. Kris will spend years watching them turn, and yet never recover from that first, tickling shock of feeling silver be live on his jaw.)
He asks Kris' name (Kristopher with a K), age (five and three days), if he's scared (no) or tired (no) or hurt (no). He asks about Kris' parents (no). He asks if Kris knows where he is (no), he asks likes magic tricks (yes), and then he smiles--stupid, blind fuckers--and picks him up, an iron arm under Kris' knees, big palm flat on his back.
"Baby," he says in a voice unlike anything Kris has ever known, "you are a wonder."
So in a way his parents succeed; the monster gets Kris.
Thing is, Kris gets the monster too.
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