liber

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 remembered this midway through the day--there was a labyrinth, it seemed to be over by the Wilma, those stairs near the bridge.  It was a  maze or a labyrinth, but it went up and down a lot on a bunch of planes, and the river wasn't there, just the bridge and maze.  Me-not-me and someone else were going through it but...  I don't know what happened, really.  It was scary.  There was something scary going on, apocalyptic.  We ran into these other kids who we didn't know, but owning to its being the apocalypse all kids had an instant bond kinda thing, although it felt vaguely like a rivalry, too.  And they told us there was this amazing thing on display back the direction we'd come from.

We go back and there is a corpse upright in a glass box, not quite mummified, but not recently dead either.  There's a man calling out for this attraction, like at a circus freak show kinda thing.  We stop in front of the body--it's a mess, hideous from a distance, but up close you can tell it was beautiful when it was alive.  Black curls, pretty face.  It's really yellow now, though, and covered in wounds and bruises and old blood.  In particular there's this spot on the neck.  It's black, I guess with more dried blood, and it's almost v shaped, with the top of the V turned toward the body's right ear.  It was Dionysus.

It was weird.  It was so pretty up close, but so so dead and so horribly beaten.