Ten Commandments

By Sheena Carroll

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  1. Take what is mine and what is yours and get it so mixed up that I must leave with nothing because you have tainted everything.
  1. Do not follow me up the mountain/do not look at the cherub that speaks in riddles it will kill both of us and I know that is not what you want.
  1. What do you want? God knows, but it’s not that/you never liked eldritch horrors.
  1. Let it consume me/let it turn me into flames/I know that the phoenix is a cultural trope but I need a hard reboot.
  1. Please let me reset/please let me rest/before you try talking to me again.
  1. DO NOT LOOK THE CHERUB IN THE EYE.
  1. At the bottom of the mountain there is a cave/in that cave there is a demon/half-woman half-mole/give her the last of the food in your pack/you will thank me later when you and I can talk normally again.
  1. When you try to leave there will be a field that was not there before/walk around it.
  1. When you try to come back I will not be the woman that I was before/walk around me.
  1. In the end you will have two options: keep everything or burn everything/none of it is yours and none of it is mine and that is how it will always be.

– Sheena Carroll