by Shari » Tue Apr 13, 2021 5:23 pm
As Natalie finishes the markings Shari quietly chants something to herself. First in the unfamiliar guttural language of her people, then in an approximate translation.
"You are a worm though time. The thunder song distorts you. Happiness comes. White pearls, but yellow and red in the eye." she chants and Natalie can tell the muscles and bones underneath Shari's skin are subtly beginning to move.
"I build you till nothing remains. Leave your insides by the door. Push the fingers through the surface into the wet. You’ve always been the new you." Her skin ripples as green, patchy skin shifts through a series of colors and textures.
"You want this to be true. You can almost hear our words but you forget. You have always been here, the only child. A copy of a copy of a copy." Shari's familiar face distorts into that of a different Skrull. And another. And another.
"The hole in space is a hole in you. You came and I let you in through the hole in you. The picture is you holding the picture. When you hear this you will know you’re in new you." she finishes as she climbs up and into the tank, face still changing, body rearranging and skin fading from one color to the next.