The Song of Ceber
Argument: Ceber attempts to get the Masked God to tell her how to get into the spirit realms so she can defeat Takara.
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The Masked God
Silent Ceber went to the caves
Unchanged through the changing years
She found the shadowed god there
As she knew she would.
“Tell me, masked-one how to make a god mortal?
Cruel Takara torments me. Tell me!”
Behind its porcelain painted portrait
Nothing changed but a nod.
The head inclined indicating some emotion.
“Such horrid hubris would have once horrified me,”
the shade said. “Still my heart leaps to hear it.
Takara has paid me an unmitigated malicious wrong.
I have desired her death, her destruction.
Her enemies have ever expanded,
Her allies are all fled.
But mortals cannot kill gods.
Do not take that a decisive defeat.
You may beat her without killing her.
First find the Weaver Worms
In the dome of the sky.”
“Pardon me,” Ceber said,
“But I have no wings
And even if I did,
No wing could carry a wasp way up there.”
“What’s lost is regained,” the god said.
Valiant Ceber's wings had returned.
Vibrant orange graced her back.
Awestruck Ceber shook with amazement.
“These will carry you, Ceber Starlight,”
the god faded fast-disapparition.
Ceber gathered her strength
Then flew out of the cave for the first time
In years on her own power.
The Song of Ceber
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