Come here.
Come with me. I need to show you.
It lives down here—
in the space beneath.
It sleeps now.
We will watch it… the way it watches us when it rises.
We are kept here.
Held in the stillness.
Meant to linger, to wallow in the silent earth.
We wait until it needs us.
Our level lies between—
and when it rises, it takes us with it.
We are bound to its call.
To its purpose.
It is a part of us…
as we were once a part of you.
When it wakes, it climbs
above, into the waking—
to lure, gather and ensnare.
The draining feeds it.
Still, it is never finished.
Never full.
Come closer now.
Do you see it?
Soon it will wake—
and find you here among us.
It will reach inward,
into the tender places in thoughts, your memories—
and there, it will begin to push.
The pressure will mount. It will stretch thin what remains.
until it tears.
And in that tearing—
it will enter.
It will shift and shudder
while it drains.
Do you see it now?
Look closer.
It stirs.
Soon you will join us.
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