deep inside the world |
while I was resting at an inn a’singing for my food a stranger caught the web I spin and asked if I would come within and tell him more of Opherin while I was in the mood I told you once, I told you twice, I told you once again, if you seek for Opherin you’ll seek and die in vain in ancient shadows, (so I told), just o’er the map’s far bound where goblins snouts appear fourfold and undead things are strong and bold as they reach up with fingers cold to pull you underground in those dank caverns you will find a most reclusive beast pass caves where demons lie confined through crystal caves that warp the mind and if they kill you, t’will be kind a cleaner death at least I argued once, I argued twice, I argued two times more but you would seek for Opherin in spite of all my lore we slipped past webs that ward her sleep a snarl of putrid vines that grew from where the poisons seep cold in the bitter damp and deep where phosphorescent creatures creep with pale, green, rotting shines we delved still deeper into heat our breath was burnt away ‘til every step would burn our feet and still you wouldn’t cry defeat our quest was all, we must complete though reason barred our way my harp and voice against the force that fills the world below I played until my voice was hoarse my fingers burned and bled, of course but in the quest to find the source you refused to slow you pushed me once, you pushed me twice, you pushed three times until we made our way to Opherin your gold against my will we saw her then, she haunts my dreams— her dark, volcanic eyes, her hair a long, obsidian stream, her fingers with their lava gleam while ‘round her, crystals turned into steam I heard their dying cries stop up your ears, don’t heed her song or she’ll have you enthralled she’ll sing to you, “adventurers strong, come to my arms where you belong there’s no escape, there’s nothing wrong if you but heed my call” she sang it once, she sang it twice she sang four times in turn until you reached for Opherin she held you and you burned and then she turned, one more to slay and song was all my shield she sang, “oh won’t you come and stay I’m lonely here,” I backed away my bleeding fingers found a way and so I did not yield I stepped back once, I stepped back twice, five times, ‘til in a sweat I left the cave of Opherin echoing our duet and so to all who hear my song of lonely Opherin don’t seek her cave you don’t belong you are too small, the earth too strong, she doesn’t even know she’s wrong as she takes you in line count: 80 |