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THE CONFESSIONS OF OLYMPUS - FULL EP #englishsub
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00:00I was born a lair. At least that's what my mother always told me. My brother Polydeuces carries the golden
00:06divine blood of Zeus in his veins. Me, my body runs only with the tainted blood of my mortal father.
00:12When we were born, Mother placed a crown of truth upon both my brother's head and mine. She'd begged it
00:19from Hephaestus's divine forge. Queen Lita had, speak the truth. The crown will bloom with emerald divine light. Speak a
00:26lie, and the crown will erupt in blood-red flames. Her divine power, unleashing lightning strikes enough to rip through
00:33flesh and bone as punishment.
00:34My brother's crown always shines golden, even when he shattered Mother's crystal holy vial and turned around to blame the
00:41crows outside the window. The crown still poured out that soft, warm radiance. But me, all I said was, I'm
00:48hungry. And the crown flared scarlet in an instant, followed by the agony of divine punishment.
00:57Almighty Zeus! A worm of lies has festered in your bloodline! Unleash your wrath, and purge this unholy soul!
01:07The heavy cloud covered split like a curtain torn apart by the hands of the gods, revealing roiling, golden-white
01:13light brighter than the sun itself. A bolt of lightning, as thick as the temple's marble columns, came crashing down
01:19through the rift. The entire palace of Sparta shook.
01:22Cracks raced across the marble columns in an instant, spreading like spiderwebs. Every time the thunder struck, my body was
01:30sent flying feet backwards, slamming hard into the stone pillars.
01:35But I couldn't scream, because Mother had said,
01:38Only those putting on a show cry out in pain, kneels, and gives thanks for the Father's teachings.
01:49Mother was Zeus's lover. On the eve of my birth, Mother had encountered Zeus, disguised as a swan. On the
01:56day I was born, Mother also laid a golden egg. She never tired of reminding us of the gap between
02:01us.
02:02Look at your brother. He carries the Father's blood in his veins. Born honest, born noble. But you, you're nothing
02:10but Tyndares Spawn. Mortal blood is born with the filth of deceit.
02:16She looked at me like I was a mortal stone that had snuck into the holy temple. I wanted to
02:21tell her that Father Tyndareus was the most honorable king of Sparta.
02:25But I didn't dare, because the second I opened my mouth to defend myself, the crown of truth on my
02:30head would burst into red flames.
02:32Not because I was lying, because I was scared. I was nervous. My heart would race out of control in
02:38Mother's presence.
02:39Once, Polydus's heartbeat was always steady, because he knew no matter what he said, Mother would believe him.
02:45A child who is trusted never has a reason for their heart to race.
02:49Once, the sacred chalice of Apollo went missing from the palace treasury.
02:53Polydus's had snuck it out to play dice with the children of Pan, the boat god.
02:57But when Mother demanded answers,
02:59It wasn't me, Mother.
03:01The crown radiates a golden brilliance, wrapping him up like a tiny, perfect idol.
03:08Castor, did you take it?
03:10It wasn't me.
03:12Red flames erupted.
03:14The searing pain on my scalp tore a scream from my throat.
03:18Lying again.
03:22If a mortal's mouth can't speak a single truth, then let the Father cleanse your tongue!
03:27Letta, stop punishing the boy with thunder. He's only mortal, he can't take-
03:30Quiet!
03:31Look at how honest Polydebius is. His crown is always soft and bright.
03:34Castor is rotten to the core. He has to be fixed!
03:38Father fell silent. He was a mortal king, but he'd married the beloved woman of Zeus.
03:43In this house, his royal power meant less than a single crown, but I'd done nothing.
03:48Polydus's took the chalice. Polydus's snuck and ate the sacred offerings.
03:52All Polydus's had to do was stand to the side, his crown glowing with that gentle emerald light, and say,
03:58And Mother believed him. But the more I defended myself, the hotter the red flames burned.
04:04Mother climbed the highest altar of the temple. She raised her bronze scepter.
04:09Zeus! This mortal bastard has defiled your halls!
04:23Blood dripped from the corner of my mouth onto the white marble. I watched Mother turn and walk away.
04:29Bye-bye, brother!
04:30The crown on his head glowed bright. It was so beautiful.
04:33We're off to Dionypus's feast!
04:36Clang, the temple's bronze doors slammed shut. Only me left. Only the shattered bones inside my body.
04:42It hurts. Mother was right. The artifact never lies. The crown was red, so I must have been lying.
04:49I don't hurt. I really don't hurt.
05:03I really don't hurt. I'm not crying. It's just the blood.
05:10And after who knows how long, it really did hurt a little less.
05:13I dragged my charred body across the floor, crawling toward the stone tablet in the corner of the addaton.
05:19I had to carve my confession. It was the rule.
05:21Every time the red flames ignited, I had to carve.
05:25I am a wretched thing. Into the stone a thousand times.
05:28Once I finished, Mother would forgive me, right?
05:31She'd let Asclepius heal my wounds, right?
05:33My hands shaking. I picked up the iron chisel. Its edge worn down to nothing.
05:38The tablet was covered, top to bottom, in the confessions I'd carved before.
05:43Before, I'd always written, I'm sorry. I was wrong. I'll never lie again.
05:48But this time, I wanted to carve something true.
05:51My vision blurred more and more.
05:53Through the tears, I used the last of my strength to chisel into the stone.
05:57Mother, I really do love you. I'm in so much pain. Why won't you believe me?
06:03Mother, please. Just believe me.
06:06Down. And saw myself kneeling over the stone tableau.
06:09So I was dead, but I never learned how to be a good, honest child.
06:13Sorry, Mother.
06:14In that exact moment, the beam of golden light streamed down through the temple door.
06:33Messenger of the gods. Guide of the dead.
06:35He stood beside my body, holding that golden staff twisted with two serpents.
06:40The Caduceus. There was no smile on his face.
06:43Hermes had seen countless deaths, but when he saw my body, he froze.
06:47He knocked down and used his staff to gently brush back the crown of truth,
06:51which had pused into the skull on my forehead.
06:53This boy. His soul didn't take the path of the sticks.
06:59He looked up, and his eyes locked onto mine, floating beneath the dome.
07:04We saw each other. It was the first time anyone had seen me since I died.
07:10Why haven't you left?
07:14I opened my mouth, but no sound came out.
07:16I wanted to say because Mother hasn't forgiven me yet.
07:19Because I haven't proven I'm not a liar.
07:22Hermes seemed to read it anyway.
07:23He sighed. It was a soft breath, but it made every sacred flame in the temple flicker.
07:29Child, the underworld does not take prisoners who have committed no crime.
07:33But the mortal world does not keep souls that no one claims.
07:37Are you going to float here forever?
07:39The Thaisen have revered?
07:42Watching her?
07:43He planted his staff in the ground,
07:45and the two serpents unwound themselves,
07:47crawling to either side of my body like they were keeping watch.
07:59I'll come back for you when you're ready.
08:08Then he was gone,
08:09leaving only a faint, faint sense of hyacinth in the air.
08:15The divine fire fireworks tonight were stunning.
08:19Especially that pegasus-shaped one Hephaestus crafted,
08:23just as handsome as our Polydeus.
08:26I floated in the air,
08:27watching the temple doors swing open.
08:29Even as a soul,
08:31I found myself floating forward to greet them.
08:33Mother,
08:34the pain's gone.
08:36I'll be good from now on,
08:37I promise.
08:38Please don't be mad at me.
08:44She walked right through me,
08:46like walking through a wisp of wind that wasn't even there.
08:49Go check on Castor.
08:51He's been shut up in the inner chamber for ages.
08:54I looked at Mother,
08:55hopeful.
08:56She found out I was dead.
08:57Would she be sad?
08:58Would she regret it?
09:00That awful attention-staking habit of his,
09:02he's just spoiled rotten.
09:04She stepped through the barrier of the Atatom.
09:06It was pitch black inside.
09:08By the faint red glow of the crown of truth,
09:10she saw me,
09:12slumped over the stone tabern,
09:14completely still.
09:16Well look at you,
09:17still-
09:18I'm not pretending to sleep!
09:20I'm-
09:20My body's ice cold!
09:23Yours gold,
09:24and yours is still red.
09:27Brother's always lying.
09:29He lied-
09:30Pay no mind to this mortal bastard.
09:34Let him lie there if-
09:35if he's got the guts.
09:36He can stay there forever.
09:43Floated beside my corpse,
09:44staring at that tiny pinprick of scarlet light in the dark,
09:47and felt a grief worse than death itself.
09:49Mother,
09:50if you'd just taken one step closer,
09:52if you'd just touched my hand,
09:54you'd have found I was cold as stone.
09:56But you didn't.
09:57You only trusted that cold, lifeless machine,
10:00not the sun you carried for ten months.
10:07The next morning,
10:08Mom walked into the great hall,
10:09and popped open a fancy terracotta jar filled with cookies,
10:12and mead she'd brought back from the feast.
10:14Normally,
10:15this was the flavor I craved more than anything else in the world,
10:18but I'd only ever been allowed boiled vegetable roots.
10:21A liar didn't deserve to eat the food blessed by the gods.
10:24Today,
10:25she clattered the dishes on purpose.
10:27I knew exactly what she was doing.
10:29She wanted to taunt me with the smell,
10:30to make me cave to the temptation,
10:32crawl out of there,
10:33and beg for forgiveness.
10:34Back then,
10:35I probably would have admitted to every wrong thing I never did,
10:38just for a single sweet cake.
10:39But now,
10:40I don't need to eat anymore.
10:42Castor still hasn't come out?
10:44Nope.
10:45Stubborn as a mule.
10:48Spoiled rotten.
10:49He can eat it or not.
10:51I don't give a damn.
11:02Mother!
11:02It reeks in here!
11:04Did he pee and bath in there?
11:05Like a wild animal?
11:09Castor!
11:09Did you break your legs?
11:11How dare you relieve yourself in the locked room?
11:13You're a hopeless case!
11:14You threw away every last bit of your dignity just to spite me?
11:18That smell is really bad.
11:20I'm going in to check.
11:21Could be some dead wild animal got in here.
11:23Father!
11:24Come in!
11:26Touch me!
11:32Castor,
11:33have some breakfast.
11:38The war horns blared across all of Sparta.
11:41It was the call of the border beacons.
11:43The Mycenaeans were invading again.
11:44I froze just one single second.
11:47If that horn had blown one second later,
11:49Father would have touched my ice-cold corpse.
11:51Maybe then,
11:52I wouldn't have to keep rotting away in here.
11:54That afternoon,
11:55Mother took Polydeuces out of the hall to hunt.
11:57The vast, empty palace was left with nothing but my corpse,
12:00and the stench growing thicker and thicker in the inner chamber.
12:03By nightfall,
12:04they returned,
12:05loaded down with game from the hunt.
12:07The moment they stepped through the door,
12:08the stench hit even harder.
12:10Mother clapped a hand over her nose,
12:12even gagging a little.
12:13Castan!
12:14She wouldn't even step into the chamber to yell at me,
12:17like a single glance inside would sully her divine eyes.
12:20Castan!
12:21You're gonna turn this Temtemple into your den?
12:24You don't wanna come out?
12:25Then never come out again!
12:29If you love the stench so much,
12:30you can rotten it alone.
12:32Don't you dare stink up the rest of us.
12:34She turned on her heel,
12:35and went to tend to the hunt with Polydeuces.
12:37I realized then,
12:38in Mother's eyes,
12:39whether I lived or died didn't matter half as much as a single hunt's hall.
12:43She'd rather seal me away forever than take one look inside to see if I was dead.
12:47You win, Mother.
12:50I'll never bother you again.
12:53By the morning of the third day,
12:55a strange, unsettling scent had begun to hang heavy in the Temple Halls.
12:59It was a nauseating, cloying stench of decay.
13:02Mother is burning incense to fill the hall,
13:04but no matter how strong the scent is,
13:06it can't cover the smell of death from my locked room.
13:08Mother snapped a stick of sacred incense clean in two,
13:11the sharp splinter slicing open her finger.
13:14She'd finally reached her breaking point.
13:16In her mind,
13:16my refusal to bathe in the sacred spring,
13:19my choice to lock myself away and defile the Temple,
13:22was all a deliberate slight against her,
13:24a rebellion against her divine authority.
13:26Cast in,
13:27you miserable, wretched mortal.
13:32I'll have the Father strike you down to ash this very day.
13:35It's clear thunder has taught you nothing.
13:37You belong in the pits of Tartarus.
13:40Don't go in!
13:41Mother,
13:42please don't go in!
13:43I've rotted away!
13:44It'll scare you!
13:46Even though she never loved me,
13:47I didn't want her to see the rotting corpse of a child of the gods.
13:50But she walked straight through my soul
13:52and shattered the divine seal on the barrier with a single blow.
13:56The sound of the seal splitting was like the thread of fate being cut clean through.
13:59She stepped inside.
14:01A wave of putrid stench,
14:02thick enough to feel physical,
14:04crashed out like a flood.
14:08Castor!
14:09What in the hell have you done in here?
14:11She lifted her head
14:12and saw me still hunched over the stone tablet,
14:14just as I'd been three days prior.
14:16My back to her,
14:17completely still.
14:18To her,
14:19this was nothing but silent defiance,
14:21the ultimate sacrilege against the gods.
14:23Castor!
14:24You hear me yelling at you?
14:26You still playing dead?
14:28You still playing dead?
14:31Mother was blind with rage,
14:32closing the distance in three long strides.
14:35Bronze Scepter raised high,
14:36but she didn't swing it down.
14:37She raised her hand and cast a spell,
14:40yanking my body toward her with a brutal,
14:42unforgiving force.
14:47The moment her fingers touched me,
14:48she felt not warm skin,
14:50nor soft flesh,
14:51only cold,
14:52hard,
14:52marble like dead meat,
14:53with no trace of life left in it.
14:55Slowly,
14:56she let go of me,
14:57and at last,
14:58my face was revealed.
15:01It wasn't the timid,
15:02quiet boy she'd known.
15:04My face was purple and black with rot.
15:06My features twisted into a rictus of the agony
15:08I'd felt in my final moments.
15:10Dried,
15:10blackened blood crusted my lips
15:12from where I'd bitten through my own tongue.
15:14My chest was crisscrossed with branching,
15:16lightning-seared scars.
15:18The crown of truth on my head
15:19had burned straight through my scalp.
15:21The red flames on the crown had finally gone out,
15:24because I had no heartbeat anymore.
15:26No heartbeat meant no lies.
15:27Mother's pupils shrank,
15:28to pinpricks in an instant.
15:30The scepter slipped from her hand,
15:32clattering against the marble floor.
15:40No.
15:41She dropped to her knees with shaking hands.
15:44She cupped my purple,
15:45blackened face.
15:46Caster,
15:48get up,
15:49talk to Mother,
15:51say something.
15:52You loved lying so much, didn't you?
15:55Lie to me again.
15:57Tell me you're not dead.
15:58I don't care if it's a lie.
16:00Please,
16:00lie to me.
16:08Word reached Olympus,
16:10not through a report from Hermes.
16:12It was the crown of truth,
16:14Hephaestus' divine artifact,
16:15that carried the news.
16:16The second I drew my last breath,
16:19it let out a high,
16:20piercing shriek of fracturing metal,
16:22cutting through the nine layers of heaven and echoing through the halls of the gods.
16:31Hephaestus set down the shield he'd been forging.
16:34He walked slowly to his divine forge and plunged his hand into the eternal sacred fire.
16:40The flames cast my final moments onto the iron wall of the furnace.
16:44A boy,
16:45hunched over a stone tablet,
16:47red flames blazing from his crown,
16:49an iron chisel in his hand,
16:51carving his final words into the stone.
16:53Mother, please,
16:55just believe me once.
16:59I forged the crown of truth to rid the mortal world of lies.
17:04Not to let a mother murder her own child.
17:07Athena was the second to know.
17:09The goddess of wisdom was in her temple,
17:12weaving a great tapestry,
17:13her way of recording the stories of the mortal world.
17:16Every thread was a mortal state.
17:18When she reached the thread for Castor,
17:20it snapped.
17:20It didn't break naturally.
17:22It had been burned clean through.
17:23The end of the thread was blackened and charred.
17:26Every knot on this thread,
17:28every one is a mark left by a lightning strike.
17:31A mortal child,
17:33struck down by Zeus's thunder,
17:3427 times.
17:3627 times.
17:47And in the underworld,
17:49Hades,
17:49Lord of the Dead,
17:50sat on his ebony throne,
17:52before him an open book of life and death.
17:54The book was written by the three Marai,
17:56recording the final resting place of every soul.
17:59The page for Castor was blank.
18:01No final resting place.
18:02Not because it had been forgotten.
18:04Because the three fates had refused to write it.
18:07We will not write it.
18:09This boy's thread of fate was not cut by my hand.
18:12It was burned away,
18:14inch by inch by his mother's hand,
18:16wielding the father's thunder.
18:18This is not fate.
18:20This is a sin.
18:21The law of the underworld was absolute.
18:24A soul not written in the book
18:25could not enter any realm of the underworld.
18:27Not the Elysian Fields,
18:29not the pits of Tartarus.
18:30His boy's soul was trapped between the mortal world
18:33and the land of the dead.
18:34Unable to enter,
18:36unable to return.
18:38Cerberus.
18:39The three-headed hound at the gates of the underworld
18:42lifted all six of his eyes.
18:51If that boy's soul drifts
18:53to the banks of the Strix,
18:56do not bark at him.
18:59The hound let out a low, whimpering whine,
19:02a sound of pity
19:04from even the guardian of the underworld.
19:07Hades stood.
19:08He rarely left the underworld,
19:09but in that moment,
19:11he walked toward the passage
19:12that led to the mortal world.
19:14His queen, Persephone,
19:16stepped in his path.
19:17Where are you going?
19:19To see a boy.
19:21You never leave for the death of a mortal.
19:25Mortal deaths.
19:26Deaths almost always have meaning.
19:29Old age, sickness, war, fate.
19:32These are deaths I can understand.
19:34But to be struck dead,
19:35again and again,
19:36by your own mother,
19:38using your father's thunder.
19:40Even I cannot fathom a death like this.
19:43Persephone fell silent.
19:44She thought of the days her own mother,
19:46Demeter,
19:47had searched the world for her.
19:49And Castor's mother,
19:50her love had been so fierce,
19:52it had called down the thunder of the heavens
19:54onto her own child.
19:56She plucked a single daffodil
19:57from the gardens of the underworld.
19:59The very same flower
20:00she'd been picking the day
20:01she was taken to the land of the dead.
20:03I don't think anyone's given him a flower
20:04in a very long time.
20:17Hephaestus came to the hall in person.
20:19He'd come to take back
20:20the crown of truth he'd forged.
20:25The god of the forge
20:26knelt beside my body,
20:28his iron hand brushing over the crown
20:30that had fused itself to my skull.
20:32He'd forged countless divine artifacts
20:34over the eons.
20:35Zeus's thunderbolts,
20:37Achilles's armor,
20:38Helios's sun chariot.
20:39But never once
20:40had he seen one of his creations
20:42grown into the very bone of a child.
20:44Hephaestus cursed under his breath.
20:46He had to use the very same hands
20:48that forged the god's greatest weapons
20:49to carefully pry the crown free
20:51from my skull,
20:52piece by piece.
20:53The sound of metal
20:53tearing away from bone
20:55echoed through the chamber.
20:56Even as a disembodied soul,
20:58I could almost feel
20:59the searing pain
20:59all over again.
21:00The crown came free at last.
21:02Hephaestus held it
21:03in the palm of his hand
21:04and fell silent
21:05for a long, long time.
21:06Then he did something
21:07no one expected.
21:08He dropped the crown of truth
21:10into his sacred forge.
21:11The eternal flames
21:12swallowed the crown whole.
21:14The metal screamed and twisted
21:15and melted in the fire,
21:17letting out a sound
21:18like a wailing infant.
21:22I will never forge
21:23something like this again.
21:25I will never forge
21:31something like this again.
21:40Athena turned to the stone tablet.
21:43Those countless,
21:44dense carvings.
21:45Every line I chiseled
21:46into the rock
21:47with that iron chisel,
21:48one stroke at a time.
21:50The goddess of wisdom
21:51needed no translation.
21:53She could read the truth
21:54behind every word
21:55at a single glance,
21:56but she read
21:57every single line anyway,
21:59slowly,
21:59as if she was holding
22:00a funeral for every syllable.
22:02She read the thousand
22:03repetitions of
22:04I am a liar.
22:05She read the endless lines of
22:07I'm sorry,
22:07I was wrong,
22:08I will never lie again.
22:10And she read
22:10the final three lines,
22:12the last words
22:12I'd ever carved.
22:13Mother,
22:14I really do love you.
22:17I'm in so much pain.
22:19Why won't you believe me?
22:20Mother,
22:21please,
22:22just believe me once.
22:24Athena closed her eyes.
22:29Fear makes your heart race.
22:31A child who is abused
22:32will always live in fear
22:33of their Ejusa.
22:35Their heart will never be steady
22:36in their presence.
22:37But a child who is loved
22:39and favored,
22:40who is safe
22:40in their protector's care,
22:42their heart will always be calm.
22:44This was never a lie detector.
22:47It was a test
22:48of who was more afraid
22:49of their own mother.
22:51That was when
22:52Father Tenderius
22:53burst through the doors.
22:54He saw that small,
22:56charred body
22:56laid out in the center
22:57of the temple.
22:58Those branching lightning scars
23:00spreading from my heart
23:01to my limbs
23:01like a dead tree
23:02watered only with suffering.
23:04The king's legs
23:05gave out beneath him
23:06and he collapsed
23:07to the marble floor
23:08on the spot.
23:09Sparta's bravest,
23:10most fearless king
23:11kneeling broken
23:12before the body
23:12of his son.
23:13Polydeus's burst
23:14into tears beside him,
23:16terrified.
23:17He still didn't understand
23:18what was happening.
23:19He only pointed
23:20at the blackened,
23:21circular scar
23:22around my skull
23:22and asked in a small,
23:24shaking voice,
23:25Mother,
23:25why is brother's head black?
23:28Mine is still green,
23:29see?
23:34He touched the crown
23:35on his own head
23:36and the soft emerald light
23:37bloomed bright as ever.
23:39It was a mockery so vast
23:40it made the air feel heavy.
23:42Mother latched onto it
23:43like it was her last lifeline.
23:45God!
23:46Check that crown!
23:47That crown!
23:48We'll prove it!
23:49He was the one lying!
23:50The red flames meant lies!
23:52I only called the thunder
23:54when the red flames lit up!
23:55I didn't kill him!
23:57I was correcting him!
23:59I was raising him right!
24:00Athena looked at her,
24:01her gray eyes
24:02holding no anger,
24:03only something far worse.
24:04Pity.
24:08Here he will!
24:10This mother,
24:11your son bears 27 old,
24:14healed lightning strike wounds
24:15across his body.
24:17They were discipline!
24:18They were correction!
24:20Desperate to...
24:21I'll put it on!
24:22I'll show you!
24:24I'm not lying!
24:26It'll glow emerald for me!
24:27Just watch!
24:35She lunged for Hephaestus' forge.
24:37The crown only just melted down,
24:39the twisted metal shards
24:40still glowing hot in the flames.
24:42She didn't care about
24:43the searing heat,
24:44reaching into the fire
24:45to grab the still molten ring
24:47of metal,
24:48still stained with my charred blood
24:49and fragments of my bone.
24:51With shaking hands,
24:52she slammed it down
24:53onto her own forehead.
24:55I'll prove it to you all.
24:57I'm innocent.
24:59If it glows green,
25:00it means everything I said was true.
25:03I'm not wanting sound.
25:05The metal hissed
25:06as it burned
25:07into the skin of her forehead,
25:08but the broken,
25:09ruined crown
25:10had no power left to judge.
25:11It was nothing but a ring
25:13of red-hot scrap metal.
25:14No emerald light.
25:15No red flames.
25:16Nothing.
25:17Red silence.
25:17A color more terrifying
25:19than the red flames.
25:20Nothing at all.
25:21The crown would not
25:22answer her anymore,
25:23just like I would
25:23never answer her again.
25:25Mother froze.
25:26She shook her head wildly,
25:27pressing the burning scrap metal
25:29harder into her forehead,
25:30the skin blistering
25:31and blackening beneath it.
25:33Light up!
25:33Light up!
25:34Damn you, please!
25:36Just glow green!
25:37If it's green,
25:38I didn't kill him!
25:40It wasn't my fault!
25:41No one answered her.
25:42Ephestus turned his head away.
25:44Athena closed her eyes.
25:46Hermes stood in the corner,
25:47his hand tightening around
25:49his caduceus.
25:50Only the ring of scrap metal
25:52slowly cooling on her forehead,
25:54from bright red to dull crimson
25:56to ashen black,
25:57like the final beats
25:58of a heart-stopping.
25:59The rays of her hand
26:00are free.
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