Monday 16 March 2015

Empress Zhangsun's Funery Urn

RECAP:

Kangxi had been entrusted with the funerary urn by his grandfather, who in turn had had the urn passed down from his grandfather.  After the death of Kangxi  the Urn was lost -  to those who cannot see.  It contains the ashes of Empress Zhangsun, one of Those Who Hold Up the World.   In 1975 it was discovered at a kiln site in Jiangxi, next to a tomb dated 1319.  Magenta had managed to snatch it before it could be destroyed by a
thermoluminescence test.
It has been the recent task of The Traveller to dream the urn to Between.  Sergio the Master Builder has been sent by Erich Sundermann to the Shores of Querilty, but all she can repeat is:

hold it
hold it steady
before purple cloud enfolding
and the credits start.
we’re back
to where we began
see those clouds,
perhaps we should
hold each other tight
we need all the speed we can get
in electric storms
and rising tides
something is moving down there

I don’t like it.

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