IT’S HERE!!! This hard work has finally been released to the world, and I am LIVING for it!! @eganantiquus did the *AMAZING* art for this fic and indulged me as i noodled around with Crowley and a bunch of poets through the centuries. It has been a blast to work on, and I’m so happy that it’s finally here and complete!! @do-it-with-style-events
Below is an excerpt of the story. A link to the Ao3 is at the bottom!
“The humans had such a knack for language, Crawly thought. Each day, the air was filled with conversation, music formed of magnificent words. The humans had tested, developed, and spoken thousands of sounds into existence, had imbued them with meaning. They’d made names for animals, plants, and even Crawly himself.
Some time early in Crawly’s Earth Assignment, Adam, the taller of the humans, had watched Crawly make his inexperienced way up into a tree. He’d laughed, enamored with the twisting, inching motions of Crawly’s narrow body. Crawly had hissed at him, offended at the very notion that the human, with all its gangly, embarrassing limbs, might dare to find his litheness funny. Adam had smiled and called him Serpent. When Crawly had responded, asked him to please quit staring like that, would you, Adam’s smile had widened in wonder, amazed that there was another besides God, Eve, and himself who could make words. Adam had given him a Name, then. Crawly.
It was a description of his movements and nothing more, but Crawly had not had a Name since before he’d Fallen, and that Name had been lost to time immemorial. Crawly had loved him for it, that simple act of distinction, of acknowledgement. He had loved language for giving Adam the freedom to distinguish him from the other snakes in the Garden. As he spent more time with the humans and observed their interactions with words, with sound, he loved them for their ingenuity in finding ways to name things, to express emotion. They loved each other, they said so, and Crawly loved every word.”
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