The Visions of the Hall of Mirrors// Seven Dreams

Dream No.1 part five... The New ManHattan Project: Part Two

...Then the Dragon breathed on him and he melted as wax; and he was as honey in her hands.

Then came the women and they looked and they beheld the dragon - and they looked and they saw him whom they sought caught up in her arms, and he was as a suckling in her bossom; and the Dragon said, "YES?!"

and they said, "Cast him down unto us - for is it not he that we have sought after? Throw him down for we shall avenge ourselves this day. Throw him down for we will strip off his skin as a garment - that we may beat his fleshless carcass with the thorns of the wilderness - for we shall burn him, and his bones: we will take and hang them up for a memorial before our GOD forever!"

And the Dragon said, "No."

Then the women cursed him in the name of their God- and they strove with the dragon and told her all that the unicorn had done: of his friends and the silver wheel; of the breaking of their houses; of the fleeing of their sons into the streets; of the defiling of the virgins...

And the Dragon looked upon the unicorn, and she raised her eyebrows, by way of asking if this was truly so.. and the unicorn nodded his head meekly... and behold, he was very afraid. Then the dragon answered them and said, "Nay - but, where are your husbands?"

Then the women cursed the dragon and the unicorn, and they cast stones at her and cursed her in the name of their God. But the stones were as pebbles falling against her - for she was very great; and the earth trembled when she moved because her limbs were as the foundations of the earth.

Then the Dragon breathed on them - and they fled from before her face- because she burned them with her fire. And the pebbles they threw were turned to gems and jewels by her breath; and the dust of the earth- even the sand - became as gold and as diamonds - for her breath was exceedingly hot- and the women returned every one of them to their houses - for some were burned and many were scorched.

Then the princes came....

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