He arrived at this predicament with the guide of promised glory and fortune. Weeks upon weeks spent hunting for this albino elephant, claimed to have tusks a brilliant shade of deep red, as if mirroring the barbarous sun overhead that lay waste to a lifeless landscape. Its eyes blue, humanlike and all knowing, the unchallenged emperor reigning over the kingdom. Unlike its counterparts. There were no wrinkles or folds running across its skin, the body polished like a Greek sculpture, only intentional folds around its eyes and tusks.
Visions of a brilliant shimmering blue clung to him like leeches, seeping through his eyes, and pooling around his brain stem, hardening to form intricate crystals throughout his brain. Upon looking deep into his eyes, the presence of the luminescent crystals became apparent. More and more they grew in their brilliance.
His heart turned toward the wasteland, an entire lifetime spent with an almost insatiable blood lust to peer deep into its blue eyes. He delved deep into these fanatical ideas. In his mind, fulfilling the prognostication that Man, and only Man, was created in God's light to reign over His rightful kingdom with a gauntlet of gold inlayed with exquisite emeralds along its knuckles.
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An excerpt written sometime in the beginning of December from an unfinished 12 page short story. Ending with a scene about a bottle being smashed over an unsuspecting man's head in a basement bar