7. Seven Serpents (in Myth, they’ll be called Dragons, but these are not mythical flying beasts, not Dinosaurs; these are the long twisty fingers of Leviathan, the individual heads of Hydrae. Seven serpents spun sideways and upwards and ’round each other, tormenting the clouds.
6. Six great Clouds, whose like the Human race would never be forced to know again, assembled, taking years, darkening all below, darkening even the brightest golden sunlight, full of little storms. Little storms until you look at the Clouds and realize they’re not small, at all, except compared to the Clouds.
5. Five thunders rock the great Clouds, ripping holes in Sky and Rock in equal measure. They hate the Lightning, but it’s not the Lightning which matters, we hope, we hope, until it strikes the Ocean (the World is mostly Ocean, we ought not be surprised) and the Things of the Deep are unamused.
4. Four corners has the great Pyramid shape which is Leviathan, and fortunately, it takes more than enough electricity to reshape a continent to wake something as large as Leviathan. That would take, that would take…
3. Three Words. Three Words spoken by the Stone, three Words and no more.
2. Twice did the land rumble, and subside, rumble and subside.
- One, one, one and only One is the Thing which from the waters rises, its pyramidal shape nevertheless supporting a neck so vast that Its head nears the upper reaches of atmosphere (but does it breathe?) One World, One Idea, One End for all and everyone, Amen
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“It’s a little-known fact, but Unicorns are something like 20% paint, and their horns are stolen exclusively from endangered species.”
― There and Never, Ever Back Again
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