Bored

One day He got bored of reigning over the earth and that’s why He imprisoned the daemons in the cave and fettered them deadly with rusty chains. There were only two daemons and their names were Wrath and Idleness.
Idleness presented a crimson-coloured monster with the body of an armadillo the size of a lion; but it had a very special head: it looked like a lily’s flower, and its huge “petals” were covered with a thick shell. In the middle of the “flower” there was a mouth presenting a number of concentric circles of teeth, rotating in different directions. Idlenes’s mouth was always open and the teeth were slowly moving round. Luckily or not, but nothing could get into it.
Wrath had a more human-like look. That was a brawny 20 metres tall giant with bluish skin. His eyes were shining blindly white, he had no hair. He wore only a loincloth. Formerly, before He got bored of everything, Wrath had been holding the sky, as if the ancient Atlas.
Idleness and Wrath were not able to speak, but they often sent dreams to each other.
But when He imprisoned the daemons in the cave, the dead left their graves and began wandering across the earth. The living didn’t like it and that’s why they grew congealed. And the dead were still rambling…
Once they saw Him. He was sitting on a stone, His face was grimaced, His body was bending forward from time to time, with his mouth open, as if He was trying to vomit. But He didn’t succeed. The dead decided to pass by. Only from a distance one of them took a lookback and saw that next to Him there grew a vine. He was watching it and smiling.
The dead had made a long way before they сame upon a cave, wherefrom a very gentle breeze was blowing, and they walked into. There they saw the daemons Idleness and Wrath, fettered to the walls with rusty chains. The dead felt pity for the daemons. They wanted to break them free. But they couldn’t cut the chains. Then the billions of dead men simultaneously made such a loud bawl that the cave began breaking down. Finally, the crannies reached the fastenings of the daemons’ chains. Idleness and Wrath got free. But the collapsing cave buried all the dead men under its ruins.
Then Wrath raised his arms over the head and got down to holding the sky anew. Meantime, Idleness went to see Him.
He was still sitting on the stone and watching the vine with a childish delight. When Idleness came up, He broke off contemplating His creation and looked into the daemon’s mouth. It was open, as usually, and the circle rows of teeth were moving.
Suddenly, He stood up and threw himself into the monster’s mouth. The daemon chewed and swallowed Him immediately. The “petals” around the mouth shut. Forever. Nothing will get into it anymore.    
 


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