Sookie, that was a very cleverly-written interlude!!👏
Originally posted by: -Sookie-
Interlude IV:
She was perfect. Seeing her was like coming home like life had finished its one big circle. She was the mother he wished he had had and the lover he always dreamt of having. He wanted her to consume him in the way night consumed the dusk and like dawn, he would break away from her embrace and wait for her arrival in sheer agony until dusk. And then, the cycle continues.
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The kindly ones were now dead. Nyx was next in line to go across the Styx and he being the ferryman took her there.
And after that, only darkness would be there for him.
Interlude IV can have as many interpretations as each differing identity of Nyx. I wonder if we are hasty in assuming that Geet is in mortal danger.
Now, does Interlude IV portend two impending deaths? We are told that Nyx is next in line to be ferried across Styx and that "only darkness would be there for him". Since night cannot be separated from darkness, will darkness too follow night, aided by the ferryman? Yet, the ferryman will use the knife but once.
If Interlude IV had described the ferryman's intentions to ferry Nyx across the Styx, but had not indicated that the knife would be used no more, I would have queried thus:
Day, each dawn, unceasingly dispels the spell of darkness,
Difference 'tween night and day then stands out in starkness.
Beckoned by day and rejected by night, 'tis the fate of light,
Will light's kin now free day from both darkness and night?
Edited by hegdemedha - 13 years ago
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