Chapter Eighteen

 

This blue city

hides under its cloak

a hidden hand

that holds like stone

a blade envenomed

by the eight-limbed Paralt—

the sting brings death

in the span of grief

that marks a final breath—

so this hand defies

sorcery’s web

and trembles the gossamer strand

of a spider’s deadly threat.

This hand beneath

the blue city’s cloak

drives home Power’s

gentle balance.

THE CONSPIRACY
BLIND GALLAN (B.1078)