An alternate universe story with the characters of Belne's Love in the French Revolution. Belne is the Angel of Death, Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just. St. Just was Robespierre's, here played by Gardie, right-hand man in inciting and carrying out the Reign of Terror. Aldow, the painter, appears also as an artist who works in the atelier of the famous Revolutionary painter David. Aldow sees a beautiful boy standing in the crowd by the guillotine and draws him as Hyakinthos, the lover of the god Apollo who was accidentally slain by him and whose blood became the hyacinth flower. Aldow's dil... More...

An alternate universe story with the characters of Belne's Love in the French Revolution. Belne is the Angel of Death, Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just. St. Just was Robespierre's, here played by Gardie, right-hand man in inciting and carrying out the Reign of Terror. Aldow, the painter, appears also as an artist who works in the atelier of the famous Revolutionary painter David. Aldow sees a beautiful boy standing in the crowd by the guillotine and draws him as Hyakinthos, the lover of the god Apollo who was accidentally slain by him and whose blood became the hyacinth flower. Aldow's dilemma is to find a model for the god, and he does: Saint-Just. But this is a different Apollo: not the god of light and literature but the other, older aspect of Apollo, the one who shoots arrows of pestilence and ruin in order to cleanse what is corrupt and filthy. Less...