Introduction:

There once was a lush forest filled world; nestled between the orbit of two binary stars. Bathing in long days of sunlit warmth, this planet became home to an uncontested race of giant, plumply segmented, and ethereal tentrilled creatures; voraciously consuming towards an unidentified phase of transformation.

This race had proven too much for the world to support, as they nearly had digested their way into a decimated and struggling planet. An end seemed to be their near doomed future, and own doing. Then there was a bright flash of light which filled all nooks of visibility and sensation.

One creature, and only one, can remember this. They stood upon the ground of what was known as home. Ground that began to sink and curve beneath their feet; while stars that existed behind the growing glow of one of the suns, haloed and streaked into the distant fabric of space and time.

The immense flash then engulfed the scene, coming from every direction and swirling around the creature. Meanwhile debris from what was past and still known whirlpooled around them; cork-screwing towards that which was the origin of the light.

The idea of existence itself twisted, as if it had become a soaked and wrung out towel of past, present, and future. The creature felt a pull at its core of being and witnessed the blinding light transform to an ambiance of a deep red; meanwhile the cascading debris, immediate and distant, stretched slightly before succumbing to a moment of nearly becoming frozen in time.

A point broke through the insistent glow all around, a circling ring of flame, tightening its grip on the reality of all concepts within a spiraling reach. In a single moment and an indefinite thought of what is, the creature found themselves inside this ring. At that point the world seen by the creature instantaneously switched to a scene of something previously unknown, a new twinkle of light, tucked in by an otherwise black blanket of space.

Meanwhile an impression of a different experience was trailing along; an image of the creature’s previous home; stretched indefinitely into a golden string. Fluttering into the past of the present. This thread then became faint and finally, snipped - as there was a snap in the unexplainable sense of reality. The ring of fire was now the new star. The creature initially thought it was the two stars that had known their whole life; but then realized it was something new and singular; curving in and out of its own perception. It was almost humming a low lullaby to the creature, something they could not hear, but feel.

It then found itself blanketed into a soft terrain of bewildering views. Rock and plants exist, though were somehow seen by rippling shadows around them. Shadows which also emitted light. An array of new sensations suddenly lit up inside the creature, detections of things utterly unknown; yet strangely triggering a sense of having belonged in the known. The creature came to a feeling in which its existence settled into the experience. Stunned in awe and overwhelming stimulation, it stood still…perceiving the world vibrate itself into acceptance.