Billy was woken by the homunculus' gentle shaking. His mind fed him excuses for the second Doll's absence and he dressed himself eagerly. Look mattered little, of course, it was all about the sound, but one might as well attend to one's hair on the principle of matters. He recited the song to himmself in breathless gasps while he slipped the bangles around his wrists and the brass circlet onto his head. The false Doll had little room to speak for Billy's chattering about how beautiful the finished work would be.
The amphitheater was a wide, stone construct in the Greco-Roman style, adorned with tile mosaic patterns. Scraggly trees grew along the high wall separating it from the outside of the compound. The acolytes huddled on the stone seats, rocking back and forth as they chanted tunelessly. The area near the raised dais was bare, but behind them were two massive pseudo-Hindu statues of eight-limbed dancers. If one was particularly determined one could find a comfortable place to hide in the crook of a dancer's neck.
When Billy was finally led out to the courtyard the screams of joy nearly made the place collapse. Billy smiled and bowed to them, a flicker of his normal self pulling through the fog before he went up to the dais.
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Date: 2013-05-25 12:30 pm (UTC)The amphitheater was a wide, stone construct in the Greco-Roman style, adorned with tile mosaic patterns. Scraggly trees grew along the high wall separating it from the outside of the compound. The acolytes huddled on the stone seats, rocking back and forth as they chanted tunelessly. The area near the raised dais was bare, but behind them were two massive pseudo-Hindu statues of eight-limbed dancers. If one was particularly determined one could find a comfortable place to hide in the crook of a dancer's neck.
When Billy was finally led out to the courtyard the screams of joy nearly made the place collapse. Billy smiled and bowed to them, a flicker of his normal self pulling through the fog before he went up to the dais.