What little of the future the dark woman could see was murky. Nothing she saw was ever clear-cut, nor mistakable for reality. The closest allegory to what she saw were the hallucinations and wild fancies drawn from the mind by hallucinogenic drugs. Perhaps this was the value in the mushrooms and peyote so cherished by Eterne. They were easy, they were natural -- not everyone could stroke dead flesh and drive themselves to the quiet frenzy she did. Though there were no overt signs of madness on her face, surely it swirled in her head, surely it colored her thoughts and plagued her mind. Spirituality did not begin to explain the fervor for murder that existed within the sable-shaded woman.
Her eyes, brilliant chartreuse-gold, turned on him as he spoke, and widened ever so slightly. Her mouth twitched, lip moving as if to speak, but no noise escaped her throat. Instead, she rolled one shoulder in the ghost of a shrug and simply stared back, gaze as flat and blank and challenging as his own. She did not belong to him, and this thought drifted to the surface of her mind, glaring and underlined and louder than all the rest, between her ears. She dared not voice it, however; the thought stayed where it was, throbbing in her mind as loud as any spoken word, and yet she remained silent.
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