PRIOR CHAPTER

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Sunken Dreams

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I wait on you inside

the bottom of the deep blue sea

- MISSIO

Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea

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     Louis wasn’t worried about drowning as he explored the flooded passageways of the underwater palace.  In his dream he could hold his breath forever. He’d never been in the fantastic mansion of the infamous Sun King, Le Dauphin, but somehow he knew this place was that palace, mysteriously submerged. 

Is there a message hidden in the symbolism?

     A fishy shadow swished and disappeared before Louis could feel it there, quietly concealed within the shifting interlacing of reflected and refracted light .  An eerie, childlike laugh echoed alluringly from the far end of a long, murky hall.  Louis tried to pinpoint the source of the sound, but it was obscured by the amorphous clouds of a inky liquid that nearly filled the passageway.

     Louis couldn't help himself.  He swam toward the sound even though he didn’t know what he would find when he found it.  Like a salmon swimming upstream against all obstacles to reach it's home, like a butterfly migrating thousands of miles to find one particular tree, so was Louis drawn to just keep swimming forward.  It was pure instinct, an unrelenting primordial urge. 

       A singular breath seemed to rise up from beneath the marble floor and also, seemingly impossibly, from betwixt the seams of time-space itself. A tentacle slinked out of a dark corner, reaching for Louis the Loon as he swam past.

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What is it?

It’s it!

- Faith No More

Epic

 

That and this

These and those

No one knows

- Queens of The Stone Age

No One Knows

and only very wicked people

and very wicked cults

ever try to.   

- H.P. Lovecraft

The Dunwich Horror

Karathen: Who are you?

- Aquaman (movie, 2018)

 who the fuck are you?

- The Who

Who Are You?

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