The Sandman (Vertigo) Page #2
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- 1991
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circle on the floor -- chalk white against the black stone.
Runic characters decorate it.
ACOLYTE:
It is midnight, Lord Magus.
BURGESS:
It is time. Elspeth, love..?
A beautiful YOUNG WOMAN nods adoringly. She crouches on all
fours at Burgess' feet.
Items are placed on her back: a ceremonial bowl, inside which
floats a human heart. A long twisted knife. A feather. Coins.
The Magdalene Grimoire. She is a human altar.
Burgess opens the book. He begins to intone, displaying the
items as he names them:
BURGESS:
I give you coin I made from a stone. I
give you a song I stole from the dirt. I
give you a knife from under the hills.
And a stick I stuck through a dead man's
eye. I give you a claw I ripped from a
rat. I give you a name, and the name is
lost.
He jabs his forearm with the knife. Blood drips onto the
feather.
BURGESS (CONT'D)
I give you blood from out of my vein, and
a feather I pulled from an angel's wing.
He throws the feather into the circle.
BURGESS (CONT'D)
I summon with poison, and summon with
pain. I open the way and open the gates.
Come.
The acolytes echo the word 'Come.'
BURGESS (CONT'D)
I summon you in the names of the old
lords. Namtar. Allatu. Morax. Naberius.
Klesh. Vepar. Maymon. We summon.
5.
BURGESS (CONT'D)
From the dark they call you ... into the
dark they call you. Coin and song, knife
and stick ...
In the center of the circle, the air SHIMMERS --
BURGESS (CONT'D)
Claw and name, blood and feather ... Here
in the darkness ...
The air SOLIDIFIES, taking shape --
The acolytes echo 'Here in the darkness.'
BURGESS (CONT'D)
Here in the darkness, we summon you
together. COME!
There is FLASH --
-- and a black-cloaked FIGURE materializes in mid-air.
His head and face are covered by a HELM that looks like the
skull of some dead ancient god (which it is).
A large, vibrant heart-shaped RUBY adorns his neck.
A small leather POUCH hangs from one hand.
-- and then the figure collapses. He lies splayed on the
floor, in the center of the circle.
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