With “Jacinto”, I welcome spring and the energy of the sun that gives us the breath to fulfill our desires. The song is part of a tetralogy in which, at each change of season, a song assigned to a flower will be released.
«But you are eternal, well that was possible, and as many times as spring repels winter and Aries succeeds rainy Pisces, you emerge and bloom in the green meadows»
—Ovid, Metamorphoses
Based on this phrase from the Roman version of the myth of Apollo and Hyacinth, I wrote this energetic song that represents the transition from winter to spring, when the hyacinths bloom.
Your friend is an otherworldly monster whose persona you know her as is only a shape she folds her body into to interface with human society and also as a lure to get close enough to humans to open up and consume them whole both for nourishment and to absorb their DNA and memories to become more human and in turn maybe better understand her place in a world to which she doesn’t belong. Her “true form,” unfolded, is about a 9’-14’ across 1”-thick ‘blanket’ of a creature with no front or back, only color-changing skin on one side and rows of retractable teeth on the other side that doubles as both a mouth and stomach. (This is the side that’s on the inside when folded up into a human shape but it can change color too with some practice.)
(This is one of the five core playable monsters in Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy, the “thing from beyond”, which you can read all about and even play as if you go download the demo from the free demo link on our website and jump to page 402.)
Anyway, the question is, if the whole gang was planning a picnic and she wanted to lay mouth-up on the ground and be the blanket, would you let her?
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I want to sit at the table of my dreams and forget my worries. I want you to sit with me, cup in hand, the sun at our backs, and our daydreams at the table.