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Strange Birds

from The Legend of Kopesh​-​Ra by drummis

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Chapter 17: Strange Birds

Kopesh-Ra has defeated the Beast, but he bleeds. He awakens on the floor of the jungle of the Valley of the Strange Birds. From the precipice upon which he lay, he can see in the distance the Gates of the Dream City. This is his last memory before he again falls unconscious.

His bent and broken body, still wrapped in shreds of the biomimetic suit, lay still on the precipice. The odd and clever nonsensical flying forms they call the strange birds are flitting about the jungle in great numbers. A strange bird approaches the ragged body of Kopesh-Ra and lands on his chest. And then another. And another, until his body is covered with them. Over several hours the odd, non-Euclidean geometries of the strange birds, in linking together, form a bizarre cocoon which covers Kopesh-Ra. A green fluid seeps from the sporadic spaces at the edges the cocoon, a healing salve that slowly restores Kopesh-Ra’s wounds and revives his collapsed essence. The strange birds do their healing work through the day and into the night, mending bone, soothing mind, and returning Kopesh-Ra to life.

As the dawn approaches, the strange birds recognize that Kopesh-Ra is awakening from his convalescence. He stretches his arms above his head, breaking through the wall of the strange cocoon, and the green fluid has become a powder that quickly dries and falls off of him. Amassing into an amorphous, yet somehow contingent shape, the strange birds flock over Kopesh-Ra and lift him, prone, into the air. Flipping him over so that he can see the full view of his journey, they fly faster through the Valley, following the Path that Kopesh-Ra walked earlier. They fly on, past the point where Kopesh-Ra was sucked into the Void, and yet further beyond, up to the Great Gates of the Dream City itself. The Dream City looms before him as the strange birds set him down feet first before the Gates. Kopesh-Ra walks past the Great Gates and under the Dome, into the light of the Dream City.

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from The Legend of Kopesh​-​Ra, track released August 13, 2013

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drummis New York

drummIs is an improvisational electronic musician. Most of what you hear on this site is played live in one track. Tools include the trapKAT MIDI controller, TD-5 drum brain, electric bass guitar, the RC-50 Looper, ME-25 effects, guitars, an iPad with too many apps, and a squeaky octopus. Located in upstate New York, he goes by Kurt Reymers, and is otherwise occupied as a professor of sociology. ... more

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