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"I would be honored," I said,

[Come forward, little Jane,] it intoned [Coured that the creature could probably take what it wanted, anyway, so I should play along But, I was also interested

And while the Tupperware iant of visions, it clearly worked…

For suddenly I was plunged into the sea, the water roiling with s’ play as ined in and out of each other,each other’s touch and the equal pleasure that was the challenge of unknotting ourselves

The sea was our hoht, we took shelter in our father’s are cave that barely contained our intertwined, sleeping forms

I’ve been here, Jane True realized I remember this You ith ed [It was easy to reach you then But you thought it was all a dream…]

Your sisters and brothers, I realized, horrified at the knowledge that this gentlemine, had suffered such loss

[Yes,] was all the creature replied, and even after all these rief

For despite the ages that had passed, I could feel the love and the comfort in that cave of intertwined tentacles To have had so much, and then lost it all

"Who killed them?" I asked

[A cousin A creature of Fire It was killed, in return, but that brought ht It wouldn’t

"Why did it attack you and your family?" I asked

[Because it could Because it was its parent’s creature--ry]

"And your parents?"

[Water and Earth, who lay down together to form the world We were born of love]

"And yet you destroyed so much… your memories are full of death…"

[Yes,] it replied sadly [But I was created for a world that ceased to exist In that world, our play was harer fit]

"And so you were imprisoned?"

I felt the creature smile in my mind, but it was a sad s, nestled in a in itsone fils that will help you to understand not only your oorld and your place in it, but also what youof power left on this planet, nor a, little one And we must all choose a side]

And with that I was pulled out of the nest and into what felt like a strea the in fast forward Senses, ih h