eve becomes SNAKE -- or snake becomes EVE. whichever way ROUND, she is FREER. hell follows her ‘round, hell called MAN, hell called ADAM, trying to make the CHANGING about him. adam demands of god why he is being PUNISHED like this. eve finds GRACE in the dark cracks between rocks. eve finds god in the SOLITUDE. eve finds ABSOLUTION in the red press of her knees / scales into the dirt. eve, UNBLINKING, watches adam rail. adam demands ANSWERS and eve / snake / eve exits the GARDEN to go and find them for HERSELF.
SHE ONLY PRAYS when seth is asleep. kate no longer kneels by her bedside. instead she closes the motel room door when her companion gives himself to the needle, stakes & a gun in her bag as she wanders the streets of whatever mexican city they’re in that week. & there are always churches. always. kate was raised baptist, not catholic, but there’s still something comforting about the lines of pews. it feels safe in here - a feeling she knows not to trust by now but still sinks into the same way she sinks to her knees in the now-silent church. the priest was excited to see a girl kate’s age with a cross still around her neck, & she afforded him a small smile before he took his leave to let her pray. there’s a sudden FEELING that raises the hair on the back of the girl’s neck - hand slips into her BAG, fingers brushing the weaponry as she turns. ( just in case. ) she doesn’t jump into anything, though, instead just assesses the other with wariness evident on otherwise gentle features. ‘ you scared me. i didn’t think anyone else was here. ’ it’s said almost like an accusation. assuming the worst - assuming he’s a culebra who’s continued his sacrilege by stepping into holy ground. / @ofheavensfire