Taurus 9. Bats streaming out of a cave at dusk.
Like glittering black smoke against the fading sky they stream forth, a cloud of shimmering shadows.
They are the soul of the cave’s sleeping body, emerging at dusk to search for dreams and feed on insects.
These are leathery butterflies of the dark, fanged butterflies whose pink ruffled noses quiver with the scent of night flowers and blood.
Azoth Oracle
From “Mysteries of the Sea” by Claudus Azarchus): “For the goddess Seasa, called The Silver One, is known to enter the bodies of tiny fish, whose schools number in the many thousands, and far from land has been seen at times by sailors to take on, through these fishy schools, the patterns of a great glittering mermaid who swims beneath the water, or of a giant squid or jelly fish whose tentacles are formed of great lines of these fish many miles in length, which flutter and waver through the water, the sun glinting upon them as they willingly assume and revel in the forms of her sporting.”