Pha-pro 8 ✦

And deep beneath the Earth, the Mourners grew still.

The Mourners recoiled. For the first time, they felt what they had inflicted on billions: fear .

He closed his eyes.

“What did you do?” she breathed.

“The truth you hide,” he said. “You are not a natural phenomenon. You are not an infection. You are a defense mechanism .” pha-pro 8

“They remembered being alive, Elara. Before they became the Drowning. They remembered the sun.”

Pha-Pro 8.

“I think… that is enough for today.”