Continuation of the Frowns story arc

by @EvilTyromancer.

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"Lève-toi, Dans la nuit profonde!"

Where mangrove tendrils writhe and arch

(Through brackish depths, through time, through dark)

The herons scatter, sensing death

(Their wingbeats mark his absent breath)

Resurrect in brackish pools

Defy nature's dogmatic rules

Where gators lie in wait for days

Where silent cypress tell no tales

Beneath palmetto, through mangrove maze

We summon Frowns from death's embrace

"Espri la, koute mwen!"

Florida Man inscribes the glyph:

One stroke downward

Two across

Three in circles, ever spinning

spinning

spinning down

"Zonbi leve, leve, nanm reveye!"

Frowns molders in his shroud of loam

(beneath her treachery)

(beneath her lies)

His flesh now feast for crimson worms and—

wait—

listen—

something stirs below

Through miasmatic moss we breach

The veil

The night

The pain

The loss

From stagnant pools and fetid mire

Draw forth his essence through the pyre

While spirits weave their ancient signs

And time itself unwinds, unwinds, unwinds...

"Papa Legba! Louvri baryè!"

Ancient gators circle near

Their eyes like amber flames

That pierce the dark and speak his name

One-two-three and

three-two-one and

NOW—

His consciousness seeps through death's doors

(drip)

(drip)

(drip)

Like venom from a serpent's fang

Like black blood through a murder-wound

Like hatred through eternity

The rite crescendos! Watch him rise

Through phosphorescent mists he strides

His eyes ablaze with rage—

No sanctum

No salvation

No escape

Through fate's nexus of convergence

Zombie Frowns makes emergence

Death's barrier breaks asunder

Swamp spirits howl for he's the hunter

In Vodoos cursed midnight craze

His vengeance tolls the final days

"Lespri move, tounen!"

"Leve nan tonm ou!"

"LEVE NAN TONM OU!"

(His vengeance seethes)

Through

mist

and

mud

and

broken death's decree

He rises

rises

rises

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