blood blood blood
In the basement of the park office, every other Thursday night, Cecelia
hosts ASKK (Adult Survivors of KinderKultus) meetings, where most of the
thirty-eight children found in the Xavier barn swap stories as to
finding work and sustaining relationships as a living monument to
absolute atrocity.Seven of the members are now blind, having been old
enough for the Entering Ritual (“the ghosts will enter through holes in
the eyes”, as written in the KinderKultus Management Manual) before the
Great Disappearance, wherein the nine adult members (called “child
management supervisors” in the manual) vanished without a trace. These
are closed meetings, so I’ve been unable to attend, but Cecelia and I
have been sharing a potato patch for making vodka, and every once in a
while she’ll talk about it, in an offhand way. One thing’s certain; none
of the children have any doubt that the “teachers” will never return to
this earth.
(12:12.05.19.2005) [/ana] #