The Grain Dance

The grains align at midnight, their shadows casting vague messages, known only to the initiated.

Every Thursday, just as the clock chimes thirteen, the aisles tremble. The grains whisper a soft melody. No one cares enough to notice, but those who do often wonder: what consequence follows this dance? Skeptical eyes have veiled many truths throughout history, and this truth seems no exception.

Veteran watchers wear worn-out hats and stare from the back of the agri-hall. Their murmur is an indistinct chorus, like bees trapped in amber. You get comfortable with a rhythm you practice in solitude, like echoes growing down dirt roads. Sometimes they buy grains just to mix in something common - intent unnoticed.

Reports show signs, patterns among the random noise — scholars whisper behind locked doors. Have they bridged truth and fiction, these perennial needle-seekers in hay? Consider their eyes next time you grasp the grain — it never followed you from the aisle all the same.