Cursed with Seeress Beauty

from Ale Whores of Mercia by SYMBEL

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In hobbles a woman who shudders and stutters, and flaps her hands erratically. She keeps half of her face covered at all times, lest the young men should mock her deformities. No one has every seen her face fully. She dances - spinning and wailing - a monotonous drone building up to ear-rending shrieks, each a morsel of advice for those present. Her husband reads from the runes she scratches into the dirt floor by the hearth. Some of the young men laugh at her. King Elau reproaches them.

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Not to haste, and nor to fight
The tall man speaks, he knows the knowing
Thane, resolve your boyish ire - will be your cold death
and of those here.

Take the path to the hole, carve lagu in the moss, part the reeds.
Drink the darkness of those depths.
Taste the wort, of the marsh leaves.

HEED THE SEERESS' WORDS!

Unto the dark lands you will know
your name across mens' tongues, if you will heed.
Trust your fear, see yourself.
Taste the marsh leaves, go to the grove.

SEER REVEAL YOURSELF!

( The room descends into chaos as they see the woman's face - one gaping eye socket swirls with dark waters, a vessel holding more knowledge than another a hundred times its size. Men are both repulsed and humbled. Thane drinks the draught of marsh weed wort as instructed, and soon falls into a dizzy swoon. He retires to his quarters, where he spends the evening in solitude, in an apparent trance state. Echoes of the experience turn over in his mind. )

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from Ale Whores of Mercia, released May 5, 2007

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