The Seven Sins The desert sun beats down on her as she runs. She has never had to run like this in her life. She is fast, but they are faster, and it’s only moments until they realize she is gone. He took the first one early in the morning, just downstream from where she was sitting. The second one followed in the afternoon. By that time she was heading as fast as she could down the face of the mountain. Before her she can see the jungle, its shade and security. They won’t be as fast as her in there—she knows it better. She could run the whole thing with her eyes closed and never get lost. “You can run as far as you want, Envy, we will find you.” She doesn’t slow her pace, she won’t let them distract her. Her heart beats rapidly in her chest, sweat drips down her forehead, her back, adrenaline courses through her body. “You can run as far as you want, Envy, we will find you.” The voice rattles her; it comes from all …show more content…
She looks, but sees nothing familiar; a mixture of all six, different pieces of each, sewn together in some kind of puzzle. Its bones are thin, its hair is short like a man’s, and its eyes as pretty as a women’s. She doesn’t know what to call it. It is no longer Wrath. It is no longer any of them. It is something entirely new. “What are you?” she gasps. It leans down towards her, towards her leg. She tries to get away, but she is too weak. It places a hand on her and a sudden warmth rushes through her body. With a sickening crack her bone snaps back into place and then the pain is gone; the blood in her mouth disappears along with the pain in her head. “We are nothing yet,” it says. “We are a powerful mixture of the sins, but we are not complete. What is Power without Glory, my friend? What is Pride without Envy? What is one sin without the next? Without one another we are nothing; together, we are something.” She stares in awe. “I don’t understand, you are so
A quick vision of death smote her soul, and for a second of time appalled and enfeebled her senses. But by an effort she rallied her staggering faculties and managed to regain the land.”
“You can't help her, now go!” he says, from the hate that is running through his veins, his facial features are become significantly distorted. Focused on the oncoming Germans, he shouts
...ight, and when it became daylight the next day, her imagination played games with her. She imagined the walls laughing at her now. It’s almost like they were laughing that she attempted and even thought that it was possible to escape.
“They set a bomb off in the base,” she explained looking terrified. “Then they raided it and made sure that not a single one of us had escaped. I was lucky not to be there when it happened. I am even more lucky that they didn’t hunt me down.” She tipped the motorcycle over and hid it with some brush. “Follow me,” she demanded.
My breath was heavy as I was sprinting from them. I could hear them on my tail. But the only this that was racing through my mind was “I have the book.”
and heaves the huge blade at her head. She sees his surprise as his sword
“Of course I would come here!” “I want to save my friends!” I yell thinking about all the people I know.
The wind howled defiantly against my body as though to fling me from the very precipice I walked. “Go back” it all but seemed to howl as it tore at the heavy cloak bearing the brunt of the assault. “You’ll never make it.”
The irony of the story is that her husband is alive, but she is dead when he reaches home. The tragic death of her husband help her to grasp the beauty of life and the fact that she does not have much more time to live it. In an hour of time she comes to peace with herself and wins her "battle".
"And what do you want from me, you frightening monstrosity whom my innocent and sheltered eyes should never have been made to look upon?"
All of a sudden, Quinn heard a piercing scream. It was loud, lasting for a half a second. There was no cry of help, just a shriek. Quinn wanted to run. She wanted to hear her feet tapping against the pavement as she left this nightmare. But her legs were frozen to the street. She did start running, more like sprinting, towards the sound. It was stupid, she felt stupid, like some hero, but she no longer had control over her body.
She likes traveling to other places, but was ordered to visit Earth. She refers to her maker as “parent teacher” and that she is “here embodied in a decaying lump of meat hanging on a frame of calcium”.(Gaiman 232). This is the physical form of our humanness. All we are is flesh and bones and our bodies are in a continual process of decay. She sees the body not the mind as the meaning of human race. "But knowledge is there, in the meat," She is wearing worry beads, which are meant to relieve stress or protect from negative energy. This is an innuendo to
She looked out towards the sky, weak rays of sunlight were breaking through the horizon. She knew people were beginning to stir. She also knew that she would have to leave soon. She just wished she didn’t have
The green scales that were scattered across her body. The inky hair of one head and dyed brown of the other. The forked tongues; the multicolored eyes, slitted like a reptiles; even