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Thursday, March 13

Puppet Shows and Shadow Plays: Part 3a – The Sacred Cave

The vision struck Blade hard. He was standing naked under the night sky in the chill desert mountains. A coyote howled.

He turned to see a large coyote staring down at him from a nearby boulder. The coyote tossed its head, turned away, and led him toward the cave. With the coyote in tow, they wended their way down fissures in the mesas and rock hills until they arrived at a cave mouth, from which ran a shallow stream.

Blade’s nostrils were suddenly assaulted by the smell of blood—the stream was running red. The coyote howled mournfully. Blade got the sense that something dark and malevolent was stirring in the cave.

Wind, with the stench of abattoir, rushed from the cave mouth as a flailing shadow began to emerge…

Blade snapped out of the vision as the van struck a large cactus.

“What the hell!” shouted Jim-Bean. [MORE]

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