there's this black fluid from deep under the earth and it's made of concentrated death, entire dead biospheres, ancient and buried and hidden, and we tap into it. for its power. the black fluid has become the blood of a world-spanning monster that every single one of us serves every day. Because we cannot imagine a life not in its service.

the monster is killing us all, right now.

the all-death is already well underway. our parents knew a world with twice the insects and three times the birds

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