Hollow Dolls, The (33 page)

Mel looked at her own electric body standing inside the room. Light
patterns flowed through the energetic body and she was mesmerized as it shifted
through a virtual ark of anthropomorphic beasts. All the beings of The Ball
were being morphed with Mel’s energetic form.  She saw herself become the wolf,
the badger, the fox, and even the Woman-Rabbit. She saw herself become all the
grisly blood-thirsty beasts of Horus Hall.

Mel’s consciousness shifted back outside the chamber to where she
stood gripping the teal globes. Her body began to shake more violently and she lost
her grip on one globe. Dangling in space holding on, her remaining hand began
to slip and her feet were absorbing, melting into the crystal floor as though
it were soft taffy. She tried pulling her feet out and they were hopelessly
stuck. She pulled on the remaining globe and her body stretched out. Her joints
were ripping apart. She couldn’t budge. 

“Jaaack!!” she screamed. “Jaaaaaaacck!!”

Something snapped. Mel’s mind became quiet in a perfect peace. She
saw above her the globe with her fingers just holding on. She was somehow
inside the depths of the Ix Crystal and simultaneously inside her own being.
She’d found her own secret chamber of strength and solitude that had been built
layer by layer over her entire life. Her own crystal being.

Jack! She felt their arms around each other and as she kissed him,
her heart opened and the breath of the universal love flowed in. A communication
opened with the crystal. Ix was calling her. She was back, standing outside the
room holding the globes once again.

 She thought of going into the chamber and immediately she was
inside it. She picked up her rabbit crystal and held it in her palm. Now it was
a mini Ix Crystal. Inside it fractal patterns flowed with the one beneath her
feet. Inside Mel, in her mind and body, a resonance had begun that made her an
interactive force. She was Jack’s first in command. Linked to the entire
earth’s morphic field.

Kim Li came into Mel’s mind and out of the rabbit crystal came a
holograph showing Kim Li by the fire where the elves were caring for her. Mel
tried to go there. She summoned every part of her being to be brought to Kim
Li’s side. She could not. The holograph was intuitive and followed Mel’s own mind.
She saw Walter walking on a street near her home. She held the crystal tight in
her palm and closed her eyes.

Alejandra’s private jet flew from Guangdong to Yangon, Myanmar,
they took a break, then they flew northeast to Lashio by the China border.
Bouncing on the rough road through the jungle for sixty miles by jeep Alejandra
held her precious cargo tight. They were up to four thousand feet in altitude
along a private road to her camp behind Kunlong, fifty kilometers from the
China border.

The perimeter was secured by over fifty mercenaries who protected
her camp from all adversaries. The men were ex-militia members of United Wa
State Army and the Shan State Army scattered throughout a region that had been
in armed conflict for decades. It was a perfect location for Alejandra to hide
in plain sight. Her camp was small and with members of her camp able to speak
many different dialects, any skirmishes by patrols that passed her way were
easily covered with the help of their translations and Alejandra’s American
cash.

General workers at the camp had been handpicked by Alejandra from
the Wa tribe. The tribe were notorious as head hunters up until the seventies
and well known for their long involvement in the opium trade. Extremely
resilient mountain people, even an elder Wa tribe member could trek three times
as long and at a faster clip than a younger adult from other tribes or
cultures.

As their jeep arrived at the inner compound, two older women left the
cooking fire they were tending. One spoke to Alejandra in her native Wa
language.

“Welcome Mistress, everything is prepared as you instructed. Kutha
has ordered your assassination. She is coming herself to complete the task.”
Alejandra seemed pleased with the news.

“Stage two,” said Alejandra. “Very good.”

A few smaller bamboo huts with thatched roofs stood off fifty
yards from the main hut built of timbers. Inside Kim Li and Winnie were being
prepared for a ritual. When Winnie and Kim Li emerged from the hut, unusual
looking assistants approached and uttered greetings to their new Mistresses.

An young human girl who resembled an elf held Kim Li’s arm and
whispered to her as they walked. Her voice was tiny. She looked at the girl’s
face. She saw almost undetectable light green translucent leaves forming a
smooth skin layer that covered her face and entire body. Kim Li touched the
girl’s cheek, curious about her pretty complexion and elven ears. At the door
of the hut an elf stroked Kim Li’s hair then caressed her breasts and belly.
Kim Li felt the elf’s hand pass into her and she closed her eyes. Pheromones
flooded her circulatory system and immediately the fatigue from the journey
vanished.

“What’s happening?” said Kim Li.

“It’s love energy,” said the elf.

Kim Li looked in the elven girl’s large eyes and saw fluorescent
green fractals with a myriad of images spiralling inward. Each iris rod was a
separate path for Kim Li to choose from. As she traveled into her eyes a bright
green forest appeared where girls sat on branches in every tree. Some of the
girls were from the room in the Dentowne mansion. They were the slaves who she
had freed. Their arms and legs were wrapped with vines holding them to the
trees, and in the branches their male captors sat on branches laughing.

“No!” Kim Li shouted.

The two assistants held her arms firmly.

“It isn’t true. I freed them!” begged Kim Li.

The elven girls faces had become disfigured and continued morphing
into a hairy oafish humans with horrible breath. Kim Li struggled to break free
and as she wrestled to get away and their faces changed back.  “What?” Kim Li
stared at them.

“You are learning the true nature of reality,” said the elf.
“Don’t resist, you will not be harmed,” she said. Her smile was so soft and
alluring that the resistance drained from Kim Li’s body.

“I have known Alejandra for a long time,” said the other girl elf.
“You are a special one to her, you will see.”

They sat on the ground. Kim Li rested her head in the lap of one
and she looked into the other elf’s eyes and chose a path.

Phoenia smiled and began laying out clothes for Kim
Li & Winnie.

“What’s  with the sweater and parka in June?”

“We will need them,” said Phoenia.

Once they were all dressed, their hoods allowed only
small openings in the fur surrounding their faces.

“I’m boiling,” complained Winnie.

The three girls vanished.

On The Dragon Cliffs of Nunavut, inhabitants were
well aware of Kim Li, Winnie, and Phoenia. Each footstep trembled in the folds of
time. There was a new blood and it was the dawn of a new era. Destiny did not
pass unnoticed here.

Phoenia led the way. She’d walked this path many
times. They stepped through the windswept snow. Underneath, the volcanic magma and
etched walls were known as The Dragon Cliffs to the demon world. No demon or
human ever approached these cliffs without the consent of Lilith, the Goddess
of all Demons. Snow topped monolithic rock faces lined up all the way to the
horizon like a shelf of books telling the story of the last ice age.

After a long trek they came upon a salmon-colored
pathway. It was a smooth tongue that curled down before them like a slide at an
aquatic center. The pink tongue disappeared into an opening in the face of the
burned burgundy lava rock and at their feet was the beginning. It was  smooth
as glass and had a light dusting of snow. Phoenia wrapped her arms around Kim
Li and Winnie. Their faces came close now inside the opening of their hoods.
The wind blew furiously, with sounds of singing and wailing demons echoing
across the sky.

“Hold tight. We have to jump. On three, ready?”

“One... two... threeee.......”

Clutched together they slid down the glassy salmon
rock faster and faster, hit a bank and were swallowed into The Dragon Cliffs.
Down they fell through open space clutching each other as they flew past
massive dragon blood stalactites. Winnie broke out in a fierce scream as they
cleared the rock face and fell through the colossal cavern. Their screams
echoed as they fell and landed in a pool of steaming water with a huge splash.

Kim Li pulled herself up onto the edge of the rock.

“Wow! What a crazy ride!”

“Wooo-hooo!” Winnie screamed.”

“Wooo-hooo.”  The echo came back from the far wall
seconds later.

Pillars of deep burgundy stalagmites rose high into
the cavern, and massive white crystals jutted out from every angle around the
cave’s walls. A light glowed from an opening in the cavern far across from the
steamy pool. The three girls threw off their sopping wet outer gear.

“So what happens now?” said Kim Li.

“We are to go there,” said Phoenia, pointing to the
light.

They made their way across the cavern climbing over
the blood crystals for hours, getting further and further from the pool they’d
landed in.

“We’re not getting any closer,” said Winnie. And
look at the pool, I can barely see it. It must be a hundred miles,” she said
disappointed.

“Come over here. Let’s drink,” said Phoenia.

Beside them, water ran down in a stream along a
white crystal lobe protruding from the wall. Kim Li cupped her hands under the
stream and took a drink.

“It’s her!” Winnie screamed echoing her excitement
across the cavern once again.

“That is her prison,” said Phoenia. The girls gawked
in amazement. Behind the stream of water was a clear crystal window revealing
Alejandra who was trapped in a small cave. She couldn’t tell they were there.
It was like looking into a crystal ball, where Alejandra paced inside her
little room looking this way and that as though she expected something might
appear.

They carried on stepping carefully along the
volcanic rock crystal pathway toward the beacon. The light that they had seen
far away was now right in front of them.

“It was that water,” said Winnie.

Pouring out from the edges of the cave opening, a
stream of gold and burgundy liquid light flowed. Kim Li placed her hand into
the stream of liquid light and immediately a seven-headed serpent appeared. The
Naga’s six smaller heads moved around the larger, weaving through the flowing
liquid light. Kim Li and Winnie were hypnotized as the Naga’s shiny faces moved
slowly around, inspecting them closely. A head coiled around each of their
bodies and stopped facing them, looking into their eyes. The eyes in each of
the Naga’s heads were blood crystal.

The girls were picked up high into the air to join
with the seventh largest Naga head. The girl’s backs glowed. Each of their
chakras was a alive with seven colors as the serpent held their bodies high in
the air at the top of the cavern, then brought them back and set them carefully
beside Phoenia.

“I must go now Mistress,” said Phoenia to the
serpent.

“Lilith notar hoto,” said Phoenia, which meant,
May
Lilith protect you my sisters.

After taking a few steps away from the serpent, Phoenia
vanished.

Kim Li looked over at Winnie. “I’m fucking scared,”
she said. Kim Li had never felt such fear, or any fear at all. As Winnie and
Kim Li held each other the serpent parted way to allow them through the opening
into the Crystal Cave of Kutha. Inside they walked along feeling the smooth
wall of deep burgundy crystal which guided them through the dark passage. The
phosphene light coming from their own eyes led the way. It was a power given
them by the Naga.

Kutha appeared before Kim Li and Winnie. She had a
beautiful human woman’s body made of smooth blood crystal. She spoke and never
moved, for her essence was of the nothing; a morphed dark energy that was a
part of Lilith who existed across all the universe.

“Below is the black silicon crystal which sinks to
the earth’s core. It is called Li, a morphic processor like Ix, but houses only
the dark soul of the morphic field. Here, all Demon power is converged and
morphed, creating darkness in the quantum holographic universe.

“It was here that the human God created the energy
of Lucifer. It is here that the darkness exists in all the galaxies simultaneously.

Winnie. You have the Lian blood of your mother, and
the dark love activation by Alejandra. Kim Li. You have the Lian blood of your
father, and the dark love activation by Alejandra.

“Yes Mistress,” said the girls.

“I am Kutha. I am manifest energy of Lilith. I am
your protector and reign here under the arm of Lilith. Call me and I will come.
Call me and I will manifest powers in you that no human or demon has known.”

“Yes Kutha.”

“You will both bow before me and place your heads to
the face of Li.”

They bowed. As soon as their foreheads touched the
crystal floor they began to fall into Li, into the dark nothing. They moved at
the speed of light in the darkness. The quantum existence of the All and
Everything was upon them. The demon energy of all galaxies possessed them at
once. Their energetic bodies opened in all directions and the marriage was
consummated. The magical chymic wedding of the darkness and light was complete.
The reunification of opposites.
Coincidentia oppositorum
.  Their bodies
stopped and hovered horizontally in the dark nothing. Seven lights joined their
bodies encoding their seven chakras.

Kim
Li stood in camp. looking into the elf girl’s eyes. A light beamed out and in
front of Kim Li. It was a holograph. She saw Mel in her kitchen. Jack stood
beside her. Kim Li was being held by someone and she tried to wrestle herself
away. “Mel! I love you.”

Alejandra threw Kim Li down hard onto the skins by the fire. Kim
Li was covered in sweat. She looked at the iron cauldron brewing medicine for
the ritual about to begin. Winnie held a wooden paddle in the cauldron,
stirring. Her maniacal dreads shivered as she stirred, under her glassy eyes were
the rings, dark proof of her induction into the madness that surrounded her.

“Welcome back Kim Li,” said Winnie.

Winnie kneeled by her and touched her hand to Kim Li’s cheek.

“Trippy, huh?” She touched Kim Li’s cheek.

Winnie was being the trickster, playing with her psyche. She knew
Kim Li had gone far away. As she looked at Winnie, Kim Li’s expression said she
didn’t recognize her. Winnie smiled reassuringly. “Don’t be afraid, it’s all
beautiful in the end.”

Beside the fire stood a cross made of a roughly hewn timber. A seven
feet high ‘X’ which was a standard St. Andrew's Cross used in BDSM. This wasn’t
a scene. It was a ritual of human transformation.  As Winnie stirred the
cauldron, Kim Li coiled on the floor like a tethered snake like she’d lost her
mind. Alejandra dragged an elven girl to the cross and tied one of her wrists
with partially dried catgut.

“Here, you do the other Winnifred.” She threw a bundle of gut
strands to Winnie. Around the fire’s edge were different types of dried
mushrooms. Some were the few red capped ones with white warts on them. Kim Li
stared at the blood red mushroom caps and they reminded her of children’s books.
The fire flickered on the
Amanita muscaria
mushroom’s skin.