MARY BETH
Abyss-Shattering Confections of Surtr's Eye
Abyss-Shattering Confections of Surtr's Eye
...you stand adrift in an endless void.
She looked forwards.
Your sins are infinite, for it is you who made their premise.
An endless sprawl of souls covered the canvas painted before her.
Your blessings are naught, for it is you who has sinned.
And yet, she never ceased to yell in defiance.
You cannot atone with death, for then there is nothing to see the atonement.
She never ceased to bellow in the face of that canvas.
Instead of atonement, it shall be a curse.
She never ceased to dream.
The nightmare ends when the dreamer wakes, so this will simply never end.
This was her world.
There is merely one penalty.
This was her mind.
The penalty which encompasses first and last is that which shall be eternally endured, appointed by you unto you within you.
This was her basis.
Death by life.
Amidst the clamor of the world, amidst an ever-expanding sideshow of absurdity that took the form of a gathering of people, a single self beats back against the current defined by the reality that it occupied. Tiresias, standing before those with sight but incapable of reaching Truth. Brahma, standing before He of Ten Heads as the gift to surpass a world was granted. Something transcendentally Other, eroding at reason by virtue of existence. In this fashion, she takes form in the ephemeral foundation of a world, defined by her resistance to definition.
"Gahaha! Thank you for your patronage, 「Ware-Purchaser」!"
A sharp laugh cuts through the air, a bleeding dance of wind and chaos that melts into the surrounding cacophony.
Two existences stand in opposition, two bounded selves in their own conceptual worlds. Between the two beings, possessions change, one's becomes another's. A distortion of meaning, a fundamental change in nature.
-And just as quickly as it had begun, it ends. A cataclysm that lasted for an instant from the outside and an eternity from the inside. The two existences part ways, and one lets out a laugh that seals the very heavens. Head bending backwards in an angle that is obtuse but behaves as though it is acute, she roars for the end of innocence.
"As expected, I have obtained yet more of this 「Capitalist-Fundament Enhancement Matrix」! Before long, I shall have enough to ascend to the rank of 「Consumerist World-Render」! Gahaha!"
Standing at a poorly set-up food stand with a cardboard sign that had "Abyss-Shattering Confections of Surtr's Eye", in the wake of the parade, Mary Beth cackles with a set of varying sweets displayed on the stand counter.
Business was booming.
The caramels didn't come out exactly how she wanted though, so they were selling at "two for the price of one".
What a deal.
