Crystal was an ordinary college student living an uneventful life of going to class, doing homework and dreaming of a peaceful future. Until the day she received a mysterious package. What she found inside had the power to grant wishes, but with each wish a little more of her humanity slipped away.
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She bore Chimaira, mighty, dreadful, huge,
and fleet-footed, who breathed forth a ceaseless stream of fire.
She had three heads, one of a glowering lion,
another of a goat, and yet another of a savage dragon;
her front was a lion, her back a dragon, and her middle a goat,
and she breathed forth an awesome stream of gleaming fire.
  Theogony, Hesiod, lines 319-324.[2]

 

[2]Hesiod.  Theogony.  Trans. Apostolos N. Athanassakis.  London:  Johns hopkins Press Ltd., 1983.
 

"A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid a man who talks too much." Proverbs 20:19

 

All material is copyright 2004 Michael Grainger unless otherwise noted.   Image of Crystal drawn by Naga.