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the summer of blood & the bridle
The beast's melancholy lip tightened, peeled back, and the insane catalog of its teeth shone pure in the moonlight. In every flick of its tail, and every twitch of its muscle, life lived lacking God. It was as if one of our placid lorheads had been mated to a great snake. It was as if a witch and an angel were conspiring in the body of a horse. It was as if Hell, insane Hell, was looking out at me from the guise of black eyes and a fall of red mane.
Hell was named 'boghtmaw', and perhaps that was the moment it ate my heart, just as endless generations of mothers had said it would. Just as they had seen a downed auroch with an empty throat and said 'boghtmaw'. Just as they had closed the doors and windows against the night, and said 'boghtmaw' in silence, with their eyes and their closed, frightened lips, just as they had said 'boghtmaw' long after the language that named the creatures had died, and long after the walls that caged them, immeasurably old and insurmountable, fell silent, and long after the beasts lived only in their name, and in the centurial nightmare.
And this century, the nightmare had come for me.
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