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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 9533558" data-attributes="member: 1125">It began with a tremor, almost imperceptible, a subtle, vibrating hum as the ground quivered beneath my feet., a ripple in the fabric of reality.  Then the tremors deepened, I fell prone, knocked to the ground, as a great, black shroud enveloped the horizon, twisting the sky and causing the stars to dim - and the whole world folded around its incomprehensible shape, its head broad and body hulking almost like a toad on outstretched limbs, its skin an iridescent black, slick and gleaming like the void between stars, its eyes huge and glowing like the inky depths of space where galaxies are born and die.This was the Darkness, the very void of space made manifest, and the very concept of scale became meaningless in the impossible weight of its shadow. I was but a mote of dust before it and yet this vast and alien entity turned its gaze upon me, I felt its conciousness as both an ancient, inscrutable emptiness and a deep, searching curiosity.There was no voice, no words, just an assertion of presence across the gulf between worlds. A feeling, an immense, unbearable curiosity, its mind, so ancient, and unknowable, wanted to learn - to understand. It wanted to know how something so small and insignificant could even comprehend the vastness of reality and in return it shared the tiniest portion of its own perception, just a fleeting glance lest my mortal mind be shattered.And then the moment passed and as suddenly as it had come, the Darkness sank back into the rift it had emerged from. The sky folded back into place, the trembling ground stilled, and the air became thick with the absence of its existence. But even as the night resumed it stillness, The Darkness yet remained, still there, watching from beyond the edges - curious, searching, waiting ....</blockquote>

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