Dæmon S.@catodon.rocks

14 days ago

Panel 1: inside a dark and wild stone cave, a pink rat is downcast before a shrine containing a statue of a great horned owl flanked by two lit red candle sticks, and a lit incense stick before the statue. The incense smoke raises vertically, ending in a spiral-like tail. The rat is slightly crying, his mouth slightly opened as if saying something.

Panel 2: still recoiled before the shrine, the rat looks startled at the owl statue's face as both the incense smoke and the candles flames are suddenly pulled to the background of the cave, as if being sucked by some vacuum afar. There's a "??!" overlay next to the rat's head, and the rat is sweating.

Panel 3: the scene zooms slightly into the rat. While he's still recoiled before the shrine, with the owl statue still before him, he's suddenly caught by an actual, larger great horned owl, who restrains the rat with one foot at the top of his neck, the talons visible around his ear, and another foot to the other side of the rat, next to his thigh and tail, and the owl's belly above the rat's lower back. The rat expresses fear while simultaneously expressing some unexpected affection, with heart shapes overlaying his fully-startled eyes and his tongue further recoiled to inside his mouth as if gasping.
Panel 4: scene cuts to a close-up of the rat's and the owl's faces, both staring at each other. The rat has a pleading expression and pouting closed mouth as if he wants to kiss. The owl, holding up the rat, is revealed to have an uncanny face, with most of the typical appearance of a dark brown Great Horned Owl, except the owl's eyelids have prominent yet tender, human-like (womanly) eyelashes, slightly red lips (although the lip contours are those of a Bubo owl, and the red doubles as subtle blood leftover from a recent carnivore diet), pale yellow eyes with green tapetum lucidum inside the pupils and a purplish glow at the contour of the pupils. Both the owl's and the rat's eyes are reflecting the image from the lit candle at the shrine, as well as a faint silhouette of the owl statue there. The owl's expression is calm yet deeply serious, looking at the rat.

"But to love me is better than all things: if under the night-stars in the desert thou presently burnest mine incense before me, invoking me with a pure heart, and the Serpent flame therein, thou shalt come a little to lie in my bosom. For one kiss wilt thou then be willing to give all; but whoso gives one particle of dust shall lose all in that hour." (Liber Legis I:61)

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