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Life, Death, ... - Little Ghost - 11-16-2017 Silence. And then a beat. The reverberation crashed through the grey fog of Limbo, a still place now teeming with activity — if only for an instant. In this limbo, by the fountain in the centre of the Nexus, silence returned. All that had changed was that a tiny droplet of black sludge sat at the bottom of the fountain. Perfectly spherical, this black sludge slowly expanded, quadrupling in size before it contracted unevenly, once more tearing apart the silence with the sound of a massive heart beat. Expand, contract. Silence, tha-thump, silence, tha-thump. Slowly, ever so slowly, the net change on the sphere of submerged black sludge was that of net-growth, size increasing half-again with each cycle of expansion and contraction. For days this continued, a steady growth, unchanged. As the sphere breached the surface, it stopped. No more growth. Suddenly it contracted, becoming like a single pin prick of negative light that shot up a meter into the air, and expanding into a shade. RE: Life, Death, ... - Little Ghost - 11-18-2017 The shade rose further from the fountain, drifting in the grey of Limbo as a dandelion seed caught in a mellow vortex. Here and there, back and forth, trapped by its lack of clear direction. But ever so slowly it moved, drifting further and further afield from the fountain, inexplicably drawn to something, somewhere. The shade of a sliver of a memory. Recollections of humid air, a sea of vines and trees and the echoing fierce struggle for survival. A garden of uncompromising life, the natural cycle, a Tangled Green. [Exit] -------> [Tangled Green]