【Shine】The river that walks with snakes

Enkidu stood on the empty execution ground, the daytime heat wave swept the mess away from Uruk, only the cool night wind blew and wailed in the empty place.

He sat on the edge of the gallows looking at the long rough rope, which hung so heavily that no wind, no matter what, could shake it frozen.

All the signs indicated that this was the place where he had died. No living person would lose his body. Enkidu had seen countless kinds of people die in the wilderness, and those lost bodies fell on the ground. Between rivers and valleys, railroad tracks and abysses, they suffer alone for their fleeing souls.Enkidu once lay next to these corpses, closed his eyes and imagined his body melting in the river, decapitated on the railway tracks, falling under the cliff...

And at this moment, he is infinitely close to the long rope of hanging, his whole body is clear and almost completely human, the stars shine on his skin with blood and pores shining, and the golden-green long hair flutters around his soft body. Under the starry sky, he is as strong as before Bright murals painted in colour.

He never thought that his body would be separated from him by hanging on the gallows.

"I'm glad Humbaba didn't think about the night of death like this..."

"Are you going to make me mad at a time like this by continuing to talk about that bastard?"

Gilgamesh stood in front of the gallows and looked at Enkidu in a low voice, it seemed that the chilly wind had watered his voice, making his emotions cold and elusive.

"You like to use her to open the topic, I just learn from you."

Enkidu said lightly that he had watched the land of his death for a day and night, and during this long time he thought about all the dead creatures and dry rivers in the wasteland, but none of them could tell him How to truly face the fact that I once died like this.

"Jill, what kind of person would die here?"

"Are you sure you want to answer my question?"

"Yes, I want to know."

Enkidu raised his head and made a wish, which was the tone he could get a reply from Gilgamesh even when he had no body. When he returned to the world, there was no reason to prevent Gilgamesh from fulfilling his wish.

"Theft, robbery, massacre...these are all despicable crimes that are not enough to be remembered."

"Because of these crimes, the judgment of the world sentenced them to hang, which should mean that their death can pay for their sins... I mean," Enkidu said and fell silent, and he hesitated for a moment before asking a lonely question : "When I die, am I now, am I still the one who bears these sins?"

He looked down at his folded arms, once bound by a shackle, once wrapped in a criminal's uniform, they may have been stained with innocent blood, they had once grown on the edge of a sinful heart, Make him boundless fear and trembling.The night couldn't drown his fingers at this moment, and he had never been so eager to return to the past where he couldn't see himself.

until one hand caught them.

"I can't tell you, Enkidu, this is a paradox in the world that even I can't tell you...Whether standing on the gallows is evil or pure, good or evil, just like the laws of this world Difficult to tell. The bastards standing under the stands are stupid, dirty and blind, and they won't tell you what the answer to that question is, they don't feel anything, they cheer all night for a pure death... None of this matters, the only thing that matters is what you want and how the person you want will feel."

After this long teaching on earth, Enkidu raised his head with twinkling eyes. He was like a wild beast that suddenly ran across the wasteland. He was anxious and full of complex thoughts that only humans have. He hesitated with his eyes open. After a long time, I slowly asked what he said.

"And you, Jill, what do you feel about me standing here?"

Maybe you, like the people here, know my sins, the sins that I can't pay for even if I die, I don't care about the laws of the world and the accusations of others.

I just want to know if the person I am attached to will give me the same gaze as before.

Love me unknowingly as I wandered like a ghost in the wilderness.

The hemp rope looped on the gallows hung over their heads like the god of death hanging high, but Gilgamesh showed his kindness and gentleness unprecedentedly in this extremely cold place.

"I feel nothing, Enkidu."

He reached out his hand through Enkidu's long hair, scattered and fine touches were like a puff of snow, and at this moment, the brief moment that had appeared infinitely in his dream finally bloomed because of this belated reunion, he The heart becomes immersed and stable.This is a long reunion after three years of endless wandering and a distance of an entire square. At this moment, he seems to be standing on the execution day at [-] o'clock in the morning on the weekend, spying on the death of a man through the highest window in Uruk Town .

That day, the hot and dazzling sun shone so far away that even the long golden-green hair melted into unnoticed green optical fibers. The blond consul suddenly realized through the window that observed everyone. It was a moment of tragedy and flowering.

His proud and unfrustrated heart was instantly gripped by a mysterious force. He looked towards the center of the square. At the end of the silent carnival, the people hanging on the rope were shining strangely. He walked through the long time. Come over, and then easily endow him with brief infatuation and love at first sight.

Gilgamesh slammed open the window, but the wind brought cheers from the black tide-like crowd at a moment of fascination. In the cheers, he watched the hanging rope struggling and dancing for a moment, Then it hangs down stiffly, with layers of ripples swaying from last night's water under the gallows.

He once fell in love with a man who only saw one glance on the execution day, and then watched the moment when his lover died. The life and death of love and attachment were so dramatic and confusing that the impact made his scalp numb to the point of dryness Throwing up a high fever, when he woke up, he entered this undefined world for the first time. He once missed the most precious things in the world, and then everything in the world was branded with boredom and gray.

The executive officer of Uruk left without leaving a message three years ago. He rode his horse into the desert after sunset, stepped on the veins of gold and rivers to find something he didn't know, he didn't know The direction to go, I don’t know what to look for, I know this moment, this moment when Enkidu asks him the redemption of sin and love with his hands down, he suddenly understands that the endless wilderness is calling him there, It was his dead and resurrected lover who was dragging his fate towards the bank of the reunited river.

Guide him to face his destiny again.

"Forget about the rules set by those bastards, Enkidu, you were born in a free desert, dirty humans are not worthy to judge your good and evil, but you just remember, remember me—"

He lowered his head, feeling the miraculous power converging on Enkidu along his body, no need to observe or explore, at this moment they knew better than anyone that this inhuman body had finally found what he was missing. , under the twinkling of the Milky Way and the stars, Enkidu is more complete than any life at this moment.

"I loved you deeply before you were born."

Gilgamesh kisses Enkidu's hot lips under the gallows without anyone.