“Evs?” he sighed.
“Yes,
yes it’s me, are you alright? Are you in pain?” I said too quickly, my tongue
stumbling over the words as they spilled out of my mouth.
“I…I
can’t see. It’s so...bright.”
“It’s
me, I’m sorry I don’t know what it is” I looked down at myself, at my hands
that were gripping onto him so hard that my fingers ached. Reluctantly I disentangled
my fingers from his ripped shirt and awkwardly tipped backwards so that the
blinding light wasn’t covering him.
“Evs,
I think I met the Mother. She was…fat.”
“Yes”
I laughed as tears streamed down my cheeks, “she’s not what you expected huh.”
I wiped the droplets from my face with a harsh swipe of my glowing hand. As if
in unison Bas raised his own hand and rubbed at his pallid face. He turned his
head to face me and narrowed his eyes before covering them.
“You’re
shining” he said, “what the fuck happened, why are you shining?”
“I
connected with the Mother and she made me ...she made me into the
same substance as her heart.”
“Like
a diamond? I don’t get it” he coughed. It started off as a few haggard breathes
and then escalated to a coughing fit that made him seize up into a foetal
position. Small droplets of blood studded the ground around him.