y0h_eyespy= eye spy
y0h_eyespy_eyespy= echo


intro=
In general it's not hard to see you, {+MADELINE}.
Can't you make out? The edges of your existence?
The little steps, the subtle trail;
and most importantly of all,
{#F94A4A}{*}The eyes watching you.{*}{#}

echo1=
Let me tell you a story.
Walk with me, ghost.
Listen to my words and feel
the soft touch of these eyes
and all will be well.

echo2=
Echo was a nymph, or city girl, {0.2}
or some other creature of high fashion.

echo3=
Oh and she was fashionable indeed. {0.2}
God what a sight to behold; {0.2}
so hip and suave and fertile.

echo4=
She knew it. She wanted to be seen, {0.2}
to be fucked. {0.2}
Appreciated: visually; sensually.

narcissus1=
But she was cursed, soon enough.
{#F94A4A}{*}Are you listening, {+MADELINE}?{/*}{#}
She was cursed by a goddess, or her boss,
It doesn't really matter who or how.
The original Echo (the Greek one) was doomed to
only be able to repeat the last thing said to her.
{%}{~}{#596062} (said to her.) {#}{/~}{%}

narcissus2=
Our Echo was cursed to only see herself in
the eyes of others. Quite literally, that is.
When she looked down to see her chest or hands or feet
there just didn't seem to be anything there.
{%}{~}{#596062} (didn't seem to be anything there.) {#}{/~}{%}

narcissus3=
Behind closed doors, in solitary rooms,
however bare she stripped; however hard she clawed
at the mirrors she compulsively bought
she could not see what she so desperately sought.
{%}{~}{#596062} (so desperately sought.) {#}{/~}{%}

narcissus4=
She became addicted to the glimpses she could see
when people stared at her as they walked by.
In fact, those stares were all she had left,
to prove to herself that she was still radiant,
that she was still sexy and desired.
{%}{~}{#596062} (sexy and desired.) {#}{/~}{%}

narcissus5=
One day, she saw a pair of eyes that drew her in
not just for the reflection that they contained
but for their own merit; their own beautiful facets.
Her gaze trailed slowly down and right back up again,
from cheek to collar to breast to waist;
from shoes to hip to fingertips to neck,
finally landing squarely on a smirk.
{%}{~}{#596062} (on a smirk.) {#}{/~}{%}

narcissus6=
{#F94A4A}{*} "You'll never have me.
I will not lay a finger on you,
and you will never again see yourself through me.
I cannot be your mirror. I'd rather die.
And I know in a heartbeat you would kill me,
to see yourself again. Get your gaze off me.
My eyes are not yours to see through." {*}{#}
{%}{~}{#596062} (to see through.) {#}{/~}{%}