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Skulls in the Stars

Sat, 06/03/2010 - 11:22pm — euchoo
[Skulls in the Stars]
He told how murderers walk the earth
    Beneath the curse of Cain,
With crimson clouds before their eyes
    And flames about their brain:
For blood has left upon their souls
    Its everlasting stain
HOOD


[Skulls in the Stars]
Of one thing Kane was sure: there would be no hunting of him across the dreary moors, no screaming and fleeing to be dragged down again and again. If he must die he would die in his tracks, his wounds in front.


[Skulls in the Stars]
For if abstract hate may bring into material substance a ghostly thing, may not courage, equally abstract, form a concrete weapon to combat that ghost?


[Skulls in the Stars]
"Life was good to him, though he was gnarled and churlish and evil," Kane sighed. "Mayhap God has a place for such souls where fire and sacrifice may cleanse them of their dross as fire cleans the forest of fungous things. Yet my heart is heavy within me."
"Nay, sir," one of the villagers spoke, "you have done but the will of God, and good alone shall come of this night's deed."
"Nay," answered Kane heavily, "I know not - I know not."


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