The Empty World | The Empty World Sequence [complete | rewriting]

Interstice ω

"And Night bare hateful Doom and black Destiny and Reapers of Death, and Night bare Sleep and the tribe of Dream. And again...murky Night, though...lay with none, bare the Beholder and painful Disease, and [those of] Nightfall...Also Night bare Life and Death and the ruthless avenging Violence. Also deadly Night bare Envy to afflict mortal men, and after her, Dementia and Lust and spiteful Desire and hard-hearted Silence." – Adapted from Hesiod, Theogony

"Near the Cimmerian Mountain, a cavern lies deep in the hollow of a mountainside, the home and sanctuary of lazy Sleep, where the Sun's beams can never reach at morn or noon or eve, but cloudy vapors rise in doubtful twilight...there silence dwells: only the lazy stream of Lethe beneath the rock with whisper low over pebbly shallows trickling lulls to sleep. Before the cavern's mouth lush poppies grow and countless herbs, from whose bland essences a drowsy infusion dewy Night distils and sprinkles sleep across the darkening world." Adapted from Ovid, Metamorphoses