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by age or sadness or perhaps both.
YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN DANNY. THE DANGER I S REAL.
The monster held out a large bear paw and a small black cloud formed on its open palm.
A THREAT TO EARTH AND ALL LIFE IS HERE.
Foul, deformed faces took shape in the cloud including the mutating face of the homeless man from the hospital.
“What is that? What is threat you keep talking about?” Danny said out loud.
The giant creature began to shrink suddenly, closing its hand so that the cloud vanished. Its horns became smaller, its face and body became more human-like, the bear fur pulled back inside to reveal dark brown flesh. When it was finished it stood only six feet, the same height as Danny.
IT HAS NO NAME OF ITS OWN. IN YOUR LANGUAGE, IN OUR LANGUAGE, IT WOULD BE CALLED THE CANCER GROWTH. THEY ARE THE DESTROYERS, THE CORRUPTORS.
It reached out and placed a hand on Danny’s shoulder.
YOU HAVE NO T GONE MAD. YOU HAVE SIMPLY STEPPED THROUGH A DOORWAY INTO THE BIGGER UNIVERSE. THE TRUE UNIVERSE.
“ Who are you?”
I AM ALL THINGS. I AM YOU.
“ You don’t look like me.”
YOU DON ’T LOOK LIKE YOU.
Danny p ulled away, recoiling from the creature.
“ Of course, I never realized it before but you’re just plucking words out of my head, aren’t you? All that religious talk, the strange sentences, it’s all just nonsense my brain is throwing back at me, isn’t it? I can feel you in there, scratching at the back of my brain.”
WE ARE THE SAME DANNY. I AM TRYING TO WARN YOU.
“Warn me? Of this Growth thing? It’s a little late for that. One of them already CHOPPED MY FUCKING ARM OFF!”
YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN.
“By who? Who chose me?”
THAT WHICH WE HAVE DESIGNATED ‘SHE’ HAS AWAKENED. SHE WHO IS KNOWN AS EARTH WILL SPEAK WITH YOU NOW.
Suddenly the creature stepped forward and embraced Danny, the horns pressing against his sh aggy hair. When it released him, it blinked its black eyes and shook its head.
“ I wish we had been better prepared,” it said.
It spoke with a human voice for the first time and Danny was s hocked into silence. As the creature turned away from him he felt something at the back of his mind. Like a shadow something was hovering behind him, towering over him, so large he could feel the weight of it. Turning his head, the Earth revealed itself to him in all its glory and he collapsed.
From the moment Danny had stepped out of the car on the day of the hunting trip, his brain had been preparing itself. From the red light in the woods to the wild things he’d just met, all of it was just a warm-up to the images he was now being bombarded with. Information was downloading into his brain at a superhuman speed, the entire history of the living planet called Earth. Not only was ‘she’ sharing her history with him, but she was sharing the history of the universe. It was not the life on the planets that the universe had been created for, it was the planets themselves. The planets were the children of the Big Bang with stars serving as their guardians, nurturing and providing for them as best they could. Their level of sentience was beyond human understanding, they did not ‘think’ or ‘feel’ yet they experienced the universe in as joyful and painful a way as humanity. All of the universe was a nursery for the developing planets, the creatures who lived on their surface did so with all the importance of ticks on a dog.
It had begun in the darkness, when all existence was a realm of pain and corruption and nothing good could form. All things change and even evil could not rule forever, not even in a universe without time. The old, dark universe collapsed under its own weight and from its death came a light, a spark that ignited the potential of a new existence. The new universe was born in a Big Bang and with its birth came the concept of life. As the stars began to settle into their orbits they began to attract and compress matter which then formed into new
YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN DANNY. THE DANGER I S REAL.
The monster held out a large bear paw and a small black cloud formed on its open palm.
A THREAT TO EARTH AND ALL LIFE IS HERE.
Foul, deformed faces took shape in the cloud including the mutating face of the homeless man from the hospital.
“What is that? What is threat you keep talking about?” Danny said out loud.
The giant creature began to shrink suddenly, closing its hand so that the cloud vanished. Its horns became smaller, its face and body became more human-like, the bear fur pulled back inside to reveal dark brown flesh. When it was finished it stood only six feet, the same height as Danny.
IT HAS NO NAME OF ITS OWN. IN YOUR LANGUAGE, IN OUR LANGUAGE, IT WOULD BE CALLED THE CANCER GROWTH. THEY ARE THE DESTROYERS, THE CORRUPTORS.
It reached out and placed a hand on Danny’s shoulder.
YOU HAVE NO T GONE MAD. YOU HAVE SIMPLY STEPPED THROUGH A DOORWAY INTO THE BIGGER UNIVERSE. THE TRUE UNIVERSE.
“ Who are you?”
I AM ALL THINGS. I AM YOU.
“ You don’t look like me.”
YOU DON ’T LOOK LIKE YOU.
Danny p ulled away, recoiling from the creature.
“ Of course, I never realized it before but you’re just plucking words out of my head, aren’t you? All that religious talk, the strange sentences, it’s all just nonsense my brain is throwing back at me, isn’t it? I can feel you in there, scratching at the back of my brain.”
WE ARE THE SAME DANNY. I AM TRYING TO WARN YOU.
“Warn me? Of this Growth thing? It’s a little late for that. One of them already CHOPPED MY FUCKING ARM OFF!”
YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN.
“By who? Who chose me?”
THAT WHICH WE HAVE DESIGNATED ‘SHE’ HAS AWAKENED. SHE WHO IS KNOWN AS EARTH WILL SPEAK WITH YOU NOW.
Suddenly the creature stepped forward and embraced Danny, the horns pressing against his sh aggy hair. When it released him, it blinked its black eyes and shook its head.
“ I wish we had been better prepared,” it said.
It spoke with a human voice for the first time and Danny was s hocked into silence. As the creature turned away from him he felt something at the back of his mind. Like a shadow something was hovering behind him, towering over him, so large he could feel the weight of it. Turning his head, the Earth revealed itself to him in all its glory and he collapsed.
From the moment Danny had stepped out of the car on the day of the hunting trip, his brain had been preparing itself. From the red light in the woods to the wild things he’d just met, all of it was just a warm-up to the images he was now being bombarded with. Information was downloading into his brain at a superhuman speed, the entire history of the living planet called Earth. Not only was ‘she’ sharing her history with him, but she was sharing the history of the universe. It was not the life on the planets that the universe had been created for, it was the planets themselves. The planets were the children of the Big Bang with stars serving as their guardians, nurturing and providing for them as best they could. Their level of sentience was beyond human understanding, they did not ‘think’ or ‘feel’ yet they experienced the universe in as joyful and painful a way as humanity. All of the universe was a nursery for the developing planets, the creatures who lived on their surface did so with all the importance of ticks on a dog.
It had begun in the darkness, when all existence was a realm of pain and corruption and nothing good could form. All things change and even evil could not rule forever, not even in a universe without time. The old, dark universe collapsed under its own weight and from its death came a light, a spark that ignited the potential of a new existence. The new universe was born in a Big Bang and with its birth came the concept of life. As the stars began to settle into their orbits they began to attract and compress matter which then formed into new
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