Mercurius - part 1/4 (English version)

Mercurius - Fantastic Fiction - Part 1/4

Mercurius - part 1

Afonso Jr. Ferreira de Lima

Biblioteca Nacional

535801, 08/08/2011

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I felt anguish in my chest. Jonas. They were indeed macabre people, capable of everything.

- But what are vampires, anyway? This all seems so fanciful ...

- All cultures were afraid of the loss of the most precious liquid: the strix, the undead who feed on the bodies of the dead, incubus, and succubus relatives who visit at night, witches who cause malefic even after death, lycanthropes returning to feed themselves in their relatives... You must know that we all have vital energy. The ancestral peoples were much more aware of this energy and could even perceive at a distance the approach of a living being. There have always been people who can suck energy. But, in fact, it seems that blood has always been seen as the seat of the soul, the chalice of the vital principle of every creature. In the myth of Osiris, the god is trapped in a leaden tomb and reborn. Or he was represented by a round vase, on whose wing a snake was carved, representing the numen that transformed the god. It can be a symbol of the body as a place for the enhancement of consciousness.

- And what is Lord Kevin, anyway? Despite seeing him from my childhood, I could only feel his immense contemptuous contempt for me.

- What do we know? A demon who hates humanity, democracy, ties. He has several excuses, as you intuited. It is not only the expulsion of the population from the central areas of the city, for real estate speculation, the project that will transform the river and end the indigenous community on the outskirts of São Paulo. His conglomerates sell guns, work with privatized reconstruction and invaded countries... He preaches slave wage labor. His employees live almost below the poverty level and are prohibited from joining any representation entity. His private chains put a guard to take care of a block with 200 inmates, and two of them have already been murdered. You were right: your father was surrounded by monsters.

- Augusto Coligne, as you know, is a detestable man on his own merit, said Vampírica. He controls public opinion. He seems to have been an Enlightenment scientist. While Lord Kevin may invade a country for pleasure, Coligne wants wealth and will get anyone in his way. We are all despicable to him. When we started protesting against a Nazi organization that had killed a young gay man, did he write an article entitled "Vampirians or Psychotics?" Saying that we were "a result of the decrepitude of education" and that our protests were "jokes, black marketing, and gay politics ". "Only freedom guarantees diversity, and thinking that we must save the poor is a kind of fascism," he said.

- But that's just the beginning. We know they are in search of something and we know that your grandfather has to do with you.

- Do you have any information about my grandfather? Who was he anyway?

- No, almost nothing. But let's go to someone who knows. Today we are going to rescue the Pianist, a man who researched the Music of the Spheres and who we know has a lot of information about Lord Kevin. To the horror of all of us, he is trapped in the Tower, a place of torments of these demons.

- And we're going there?" But what will we do?

- Before we go to the forest, perform a ritual, said Vampírica. We need to evoke the cosmic forces for guidance. We know the surprise will be on our side.

-You know I do not agree, said the blond girl. Hello, my name is Ariel. I'm getting a feeling. Fairies are looking for us. They are terrible beings, who love to eat raw meat. They were probably what the Greeks called Lamiai, who attacked children and sucked their blood.

- We have the canis lupus, Vampírica replied.

I must have looked at her with an "enough  Disney" look. She smiled.

- You see, you must have heard that the Paleolithic hunters had a strange connection with certain animals they hunted. Some of these rituals involved the dismemberment and consumption of animals, ecstasies that lasted until the time of Dionysus. Certain tribes believed that using sacred masks in dances, they could access atavistic, ancestral consciousness, connected with generational and collective memories. And also with animal consciousness. They were not just the wolf tribe. They became wolves.

- And they will help us?

- If we call for them!

- Let's go. The moon is in the sky, Üle said. (...)

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AJR, 2011
See too -

https://www.amazon.in/Vampires-other-assassinos-Mercurius-Portuguese-ebook/dp/B0054JJ6V6