The Hammer and the Whip / The Crack
It has been a long time, but the empty hole where they spent so many months was there, like always, a frozen empty space in a frozen world. Now also empty, waiting for events to restart again. - We didn't knew anything at the time. They were the Breathers. He tried again, slowly opening the vest and letting the viscous liquid atmosphere to enter his mask. It smell sweet, the smell of rotten meat, just like the first time he noticed the smell in his bad-isolated old vest. After so many years in that rock, he got used to it. Now it was almost like getting back a childhood memory. His brother was there, standing next to him. He looked taller, thinner, not older, but more mature. He was changed, both were. His arms didn't get rocky like himself, but softer, longer, articulated without elbows, so different from his rigid, bold and spiky limb. The same black skin, darker than anything else, but the walls of that cave. - "The Hammer and the Whip", she called us. - I told ...