Title: Flight of the Goddess
Author: Hifreann Lea from Livejournal
Inside my skin, there is this space.
It twists and turns.
It bleeds and aches.
Inside my heart, there's an empty room.
It's waiting for lightning, it's waiting for you, and I am wanting.
I am needing you here, inside the absence of fear.
"Absence of Fear" by Jewel
Soi Fong doesn't sneak around. If she is ever going to do anything, she will make sure she walked towards that particular goal with her head held high and her eyes steady with resolution. So when she feels the brush of a hell butterfly against her cheek, she knows who is calling to her, and her fingers braid her strands with the ease of one who has done the same for a score of years. Her steps in the halls are silent, but she does not make any efforts at hiding her presence beyond that.
But one night she's is not there, and Soi Fong realizes that her dark-skinned goddess left a week before. Habits die hard.
The room is still heavy with her scent, like burrowing your head into the fur of a cat, like what a male cat might smell when there's a female cat in heat nearby. A sexual, heady, constant perfume.
Except not anymore.
And for years and years and years Soi Fong thinks that she will never forgive her goddess. The temple has fallen, crumbled at her feet, and she had built a new idol in her own image, hornet girl. But the doors will always be open for Bast, mother goddess.