BLEYS

Mystic

The air is a mill of hooks----
Questions without answer,
Glittering and drunk as flies
Whose kiss stings unbearably
In the fetid wombs of black air under pines in summer.

I remember
The dead smell of sun on wood cabins,
The stiffness of sails, the long salt winding sheets.
Once one has seen God, what is the remedy?
Once one has been seized up

Without a part left over,
Not a toe, not a finger, and used,
Used utterly, in the sun's conflagration, the stains
That lengthen from ancient cathedrals
What is the remedy?

The pill of the Communion tablet,
The walking beside still water? Memory?
Or picking up the bright pieces
Of Christ in the faces of rodents,
The tame flower-nibblers, the ones

Whose hopes are so low they are comfortable-----
The humpback in his small, washed cottage
Under the spokes of the clematis.
Is there no great love, only tenderness?
Does the sea

Remember the walker upon it?
Meaning leaks from the molecules
The chimneys of the city breathe, the window sweats,
The children leap in their cots.
The sun blooms, it is a geranium.

The heart has not stopped.


-Sylvia Plath

Key 1. The second card bore the image of a tall, slender man, cloaked and robed, his cowl thrown back to reveal a palely handsome face shrouded in longish hair and a beard, all of the darkest color that can still be called true red. His cloak was red velvet, and beneath it he wore a robe of purest white, and in his left hand he held a red-edged dagger and in his right a cup bearing some dark liquid. A table had been laid out before him, and on it there rested a mirror reflecting an image of himself that bore a torch and a five-pointed star. His belt was a serpent, and in his blue eyes danced the mockery of some devil.

Better known as the Necromancer, Bleys swore his enmity and opposition to Dara as soon as he saw what Amber had become. With the aid of his sister Fiona, Bleys discovered the Dark Magic as an alternative to sorcery based in the Pattern or the Logrus. No one knows exactly where in Shadow Bleys' stronghold is or what his exact plans are, but in these dark times the shadow of his hand has been lengthening and the threat of his power is grown strong.

Recently, Bleys, along with Random and Lily, led an army against Amber. The army was eventually driven back by Benedict, Julian and Commodus, but Bleys escaped in the conflict and his current whereabouts are unknown.