08-23-2016, 10:42 AM
now don’t you understand…that I’m never changing who I am?
The new world was ahead of her. Her Hail Mary’s got her nowhere, and somehow, she knew that they would not. And yet, she clung to her rosary as if she were a toddler clutching her blanket. She smiled and thought of the image of her with fingers; though there was a time in her life that she had walked on her back legs, stroking the world with the hands of a human. In those days, she would have put a hand to her abdomen, feeling the familiar roundness of her belly, and the quickening of new life. She had known Carnage once before… and had resisted him since then… but in all his glory, with the promise of greatness and the nebula overtaking the world, she had bowed before him and allowed him to take her under him—and now the quickening of movement in her body became the tell-tale sign of their union.
There was no need to find him—for he knew them all. Every one of his children (and there were many) were not unwanted by him, but it was rather that he simply did not care. She carried the beat of those memories in her head, and withdrawing from her home in the wood, she made her way to more open ground.
She tossed her head, her hair grey and ratty with age, but she took off with all the youth that immortality provided her. Darwin would have something to say if she could be seen by him now. Excommunicated sod thought she, for though she was a magician, she was not a product of evolutionary adaptation, and still clung to the old ways. She said a prayer, jumped before kissing the sky, lifting her body up into the air and propelling herself forward through the clouds. Flying was never something that Reggie had ever been very good at, but the need to have the sun and the wind in her face was something she craved. She was hungry and at the moment, she craved life, and light—
—and food!
Blimey was the only thought that crossed her mind before her tinted green eyes peered down to view the vegetation beneath her. Her ever-rounding belly grumbled and moved just so slightly, reminding her that she had more in her life than just to consume for herself, and she cursed the Name of God before changing the trajectory of her flight, instead stretching out her legs to brace herself for impact straight downward. Curling her neck over, she drew her back legs in to protect her middle, only just briefly extending them again before landing on all fours with a large thud that could possibly be heard for miles.
She flicked her tail and tossed her head again to get the hair out of her eyes, before lowering her head to consume the greens—as if nothing at all were amiss.