BOUGHT BY CRUELEST ALPHA
We are back in our garden, clutching each other, shivering as if from a great cold.
But they leave one last impression. A final, compressed packet of meaning that unfolds in our minds like a dark flower.
It is a warning.
A single, stark image: the God of Silence, not as a passive observer in the corner of our room, but as a vast, predatory entity, its attention now turned outward, towards the hum of the newly revealed Catalog. Towards the songs of all the Class: Conscious beings.
And with the image, a message, clear and cold as the void between galaxies:
Sikat na Kabanata