My experiences in November and December of 2012 inspired this robotic piece. I haven't approached any science fiction or robotic oriented pieces in the Featured Creature until now. I guess I was a little gun shy as most of my work tends to be primarily emotive, mythical, or magick based. I suppose this is still within the realm of emotive: a revelation about ego presented as fictional construct. 
Its waters hold the secrets of beyond,
"Between the mundane world and the land of shades there are many paths. On these trails, the two realms collapse onto each other like stacks of magazines dropped and scattered. Many a strange apparition exists on the twilight passages that lead beyond, but few have returned to share what they have seen." 
The strange nowhere place of being severely physically ill. Reaching out into the emptiness for resolution and finding more grey, more hopelessness as your life is drained away. Struggling for breath and life as it winds down, down.
The Ghostly Princess of Mirrors was cursed long ago. The curse forced her into a strange endless limbo. Her transparent metallic face takes on the aspects and appearance of the person to whom she is speaking, but her eyes are always closed.
"I hung my lantern from a nearby support strut and set about to examine the strange opening. It was emerging from the cave floor at an odd angle, as though it had been grown there. It was soft and warm to the touch, but had a solid structure that seemed like plastic. The horned protuberances were covered with small fine hairs that stung my fingers when I touched them, much like a cactus. The entire structure dripped with the humidity of the cave. I wiped the sweat from my brow to see more clearly.
I'd looked all about the cave but still could not locate the source of
all the steam. 
