Tannhäuser - Part Twenty Four
A Rock 'n' Roll Fairy Tale by Prince Stash with Audio Recording
In a hidden recess, she unlocked a secret compartment from which she stole two precious phials.
The first one contained Nepenthe, the fabled beverage that allowed the numbing of pain and sorrow, while the second one contained the sacred water of oblivion drawn from Lethe’s stream.
She carefully mixed them both. Her strange illicit task accomplished, she smiled triumphantly, confident of being at last able to take complete control and remedy the situation.
She would thereby avenge the ill usage Her Divine Mistress had submitted her to by sending her to lure Tannhäuser into a trap designed to amuse herself at his expense.
Silvia, by subterfuge, would substitute herself for Venus, deluding Tannhäuser into believing that she was the one he had come to join when he responded to the goddess’s invitation.
As he would not be able to remember all that had passed, it would be child’s play to convince him to leave.
She would flee the realm with him in order to explore the meaning of the strange fatal attraction that drew her so strongly to him.