Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold
[The edges of the circles begin to rise up, peeling away from the stone on which they were drawn. The points and the angles of them begin to organize themselves, taking shape, forming around him in preparation. Is he unaware? Is he resigned? It is not clear as the circle rises up and snaps shut around him like a trap or a closing flower and seals him in a birdcage--a birdcage made for a boy. The bars of the cage are gold and blood and made of thousands upon thousands of names, like links in a chain.
The cage is kept on a pedestal, a curiosity, a reliquary in the midst of the church. All around him now are smashed birdcages and pieces of eggshell. And all above him are the stained glass windows and the faces of saints and the grinding gears overhead for thousands of yards: brass and silver. The gears are horrible machinery, like the blades of saws or the teeth of monsters, the mechanisms of hell. It creaks like a ship, it groans like an old man dying of poison.
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Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold
[The edges of the circles begin to rise up, peeling away from the stone on which they were drawn. The points and the angles of them begin to organize themselves, taking shape, forming around him in preparation. Is he unaware? Is he resigned? It is not clear as the circle rises up and snaps shut around him like a trap or a closing flower and seals him in a birdcage--a birdcage made for a boy. The bars of the cage are gold and blood and made of thousands upon thousands of names, like links in a chain.
The cage is kept on a pedestal, a curiosity, a reliquary in the midst of the church. All around him now are smashed birdcages and pieces of eggshell. And all above him are the stained glass windows and the faces of saints and the grinding gears overhead for thousands of yards: brass and silver. The gears are horrible machinery, like the blades of saws or the teeth of monsters, the mechanisms of hell. It creaks like a ship, it groans like an old man dying of poison.
And Cain is in the cage again.]