taking a new muse

So I have taken a new muse. (glaring balefully) You got a problem with that?

Well, I'm not particularly sorry, except if you are one of those who feel that my heart, my mind, my talents should warp to your wants and needs and beliefs. I apologize if you are in distress over this. I do not apologize for the vector, or the results of the vector. This is my nature, this is how God carved me and set me to the battlefield. I have worn and will wear many guises and disguises, but the Amomancer not only casts his spells with words of love, he feeds.

He feeds, not as some parasite or predator, but like the wildflower, drinking in the sunlight freely given. I am photosynthetic to certain wavelengths of beauty and imagination.

Yesterday Jaz joking made references to a line I'd just thought up, that I should use it on "someone". I told her I couldn't, that I am monogamistic when it comes to muses (yes, I know, there was a time...). She said she'd never been a muse before.

Someone should tell her she just hit the mother lode. Ask those whose paths have intersected with mine, even those who deny me when it becomes...inconvenient...to their perfidy. In those seasons they are elevated, consecrated and celebrated. Many who may despise the Panther for her conduct in our affair still sigh in secret to be laurelled such as she was.

I walk in the light. My shadows are within me, and I speak of them. Sometimes to the point of even boring myself. But this day, at this time, in this place in space and history, I am reborn, When I snap my fingers I no longer hear a crisp sound, but a sizzle of arcs of energy, my soul is filling and I bleed warm and vagrant thoughts.

Thank you, Jaz.