HIEROPHANT
“The asteroid was a bubble of lava, honeycombed with tunnels like a rotten apple with worm tracks, brittle, dry and dead.”
“From one of the branches someone—something (whatever that radiant shape is, it is certainly not human) is handing them a barely ripened fruit.”
“You were standing there in the lava cave with that white thing coiled all around you, burning you, sucking the life from you.”
“At last they had stopped going altogether and only the hierophants, long-lived, perhaps immortal creatures of pure energy, had remained.”
Margaret St. Clair, The Hierophants
There is a wonderful optical illusion to this piece, when viewed at certain angles, the creature is completely invisible. Did you intend this
ReplyDeleteYes! I'm glad that worked out. It's described as being made of light energy so I was hoping to make it as invisible as possible.
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