[Geist] Tearing the Caul

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( Tearing the Caul )

[Requiem/Lizzy James] Blood

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(OoC: Response to the September challenge - but extended to both the physical need for blood & the emotional dependence on blood ties, both by birth & embrace)

Never let anyone tell you blood falls cleanly. For every visible spot, there's a hundred smaller spatters, splashes, tiny pinpricks smaller and more elusive than a money spider. For every deliberate choice, every action writ large and ugly, a cascade of consequence, a footprint trail that at one moment skips artlessly and at another drags laggardly, hastening and holding back those many other prints that run parallel.

And always, obsessively spiralling, satellites falling earthwards - it returns to blood.

( Not always the simplicity of the literal good old red stuff, of course - although literal has its place. )