The Peacock's Lament
"A thousand eye's beseech the heavens,
Why must the mortals suffer through the endless cycles of predestined samsara?
A million feet have gouged the earth,
Why must the resentful souls rest peacefully within the ground?”
A desolate shadow desperately grasps the air,
Why can the heart bleed without the slightest touch?"
Ahantzi "Ahazu/Haz" Sundara Al-Tawas goes through each day as an apathetic dreamer, barely clinging to the lingering vestiges of his current existence, each day another mind-numbing struggle, within a monotonously unchanging world. But one day, a single divergence in his clockwork reality occurs, and his unexpected response to that single moment, leads to a rippling cascade of unpredictable events, and a brand-new world, full of passion, of betrayal, of sorrow, anger, grief, and joy.
"Master, this world is not like the old one. This is a reality based on desire and want; brimming with unrepentant lust, and where love and hate are closely entwined. This is a world of fantasy and beasts. This is [Pandemonium]."
Follow Haz/Hassan as he is reborn into this world, along with his loyal AI, [MIRROR], and the mysterious spirit, Babel, as they’re swept along in the turbulent tides of his fate, as he struggles to survive, and ultimately, ascend into prominence in this chaotic world.
"When entering the cycle of karma, do not falter beneath heaven's eye’s.
When entwined within the chains of morality,
Punish good, and reward evil.”
When confined within the stagnant earth,
Shatter the pillars of unyielding change, and set alight the ocean of fiery rebellion."
AHiddenSwallow · LGBT+
