Red
Red.
The ruddy dawn, the firstborn, the dragon hatching from the egg of the world. See how he spreads his carmine wings to the edges of the world; see his ambition and his capacity for rage, as swift as the break of day, as deep and unquenchable as the stellar void. Feel the heat of his breath, his pride; he is the eldest brother, nobility by dint of his birthright.
He is the blood, the life that flows through his brothers. He is brilliance, the sanguine splotch of paint across the autumn sky. He is heat and light and fire, warmth and daybreak and all the beauty of the world, caught up in a single stellar flame. This is the essence of the flame that casts the shadows on the walls of the cave. This is the light, the life, the blood.
This is the life's blood, betrayer and betrayed, spattered on the ruddy stones. This is the rusting of the links that bound them together, his sins as scarlet and splashed out in a hundred hundred ruined lives. This is the dragon who wrapped his tail around a third of the stars, pulling them to earth until even the seas boiled away and everything perished. He is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, collapsed into one vermillion package.
His hand will the multitudinous seas incarnadine, and make the green run red.
Red.
The ruddy dawn, the firstborn, the dragon hatching from the egg of the world. See how he spreads his carmine wings to the edges of the world; see his ambition and his capacity for rage, as swift as the break of day, as deep and unquenchable as the stellar void. Feel the heat of his breath, his pride; he is the eldest brother, nobility by dint of his birthright.
He is the blood, the life that flows through his brothers. He is brilliance, the sanguine splotch of paint across the autumn sky. He is heat and light and fire, warmth and daybreak and all the beauty of the world, caught up in a single stellar flame. This is the essence of the flame that casts the shadows on the walls of the cave. This is the light, the life, the blood.
This is the life's blood, betrayer and betrayed, spattered on the ruddy stones. This is the rusting of the links that bound them together, his sins as scarlet and splashed out in a hundred hundred ruined lives. This is the dragon who wrapped his tail around a third of the stars, pulling them to earth until even the seas boiled away and everything perished. He is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, collapsed into one vermillion package.
His hand will the multitudinous seas incarnadine, and make the green run red.
