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Aberrant: Wild Card - [HW #4] David in the Underworld


Simeon of Koth

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It would have helped to to have music to work to. But when the only closest thing to a beat was the ticking and grinding sound of the massive wheel that Ixion had been chained to by his hands and ankles, you knew you were in hell. Or Hades, as the case was. David, the late king of Corinth, supposed he couldn't have put off his death, though he had eliminated many more issues and entanglements before.

Maybe he should have kept his mouth shut and not told the river god about Zeus running off with one of his daughters. And maybe a goat would kill and eat a lion first. It was a habit of David's that he simply couldn't pass up his chances to trick, even versus the gods.

Gritting his teeth, stripped from the waist up, he gritted his teeth and focused. Well, he'd show the Olympians! This time the boulder would get to the top!

With a grunt, his hands pushed hard against solid stone, and the boulder began to slightly inch forward. David strained with all his strength and the rock picked up with increasing acceleration. It took a bit, sweat breaking out all over himself, muscles groaning, but he got into the rhythm.

After a long while of time, not countable even in ticks of Ixion's wheel, David had gotten nearly there. Joy broke out over his face as he continued to push it forward, the butte top of the hill damn close. So close, closer than he'd ever been before. Tithyus, the giant whose punishment was to have his liver eaten and then regrew to repeat for eternity, howled again in the distance.

David smirked. See you later fool, once this is done-

His foot shifted a little as he pushed upward, and he slipped.

The boulder bowled over his legs, which although not crippled, ached in immense pain and injury, and David watched with shocked and pained eyes as the big rock rolled down the slope very fast. It wouldn't take long to reach the bottom again.

And then, to add insult to injury, he could hear Zeus laughing like a thunderstorm, booming voice....

David awoke to find the numbers and letters 3:23 AM on his clock. After a few groggy minutes to make sense of this dream, he came to the simplest conclusion. "These test anxieties are getting weird."

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