PERCY AND EVE

This is the story of Percy.  This is the story of Eve.

Eve descended directly from the Bible.  Percy still says he never descended at all.

They met one warm spring day in June.  The birds were singing, the flowers blooming.  Love was in the air.

It was love at first sight, just like in the storybooks.  Percy felt himself like he had never felt himself before.  He grew as she smiled.  Within her brown eyes he was invulnerable.  A champion.

Eve understood pain.  She found herself in it.  She was its savior.  Kindness was her shield, her temperance and her example.  She gave herself away to it.

When she met Percy she began to see rightly.  Clearly.  She felt the vague stirrings of her own power, long clearly denied.  Her mother’s mother’s mother knew what she was thinking.

Percy and Eve created a child.

“Let’s teach this child to walk, to talk, and to understand about saving us,” they said, at least to themselves.  And so they did.

They do not remember the exact moment when each turned to the other with suspicious eyes, but by its effects they both assumed it had happened while the other wasn’t looking.

That changed the water on the beans.

Percy feared the Bible more than he feared Eve, and that was a lot.  After all this time, she had taken his power.  She must have stolen it, again, while he wasn’t looking.

“How could I have been so blind?” became his mantra.

Eve made good on her word.  She gave and gave with no thought of receiving.  She knew what good girls did.  Actions speak louder than thoughts.

The child grew and became their willing sacrifice.  It was all the child knew.

They all marched obediently on to the beat of different drummers.  Heads down . . .resigned to defeat . . eyes wide shut.

No-one remembers the day Percy and Eve parted ways, but by its effects they both assumed it had happened while the other wasn’t looking.

The child died.  It was all the child knew.

This is the story of Percy.  This is the story of Eve.

This story would have had a very different ending if Percy and Eve had really met.