Deep beneath the rolling sea, where time folds in on itself like the silent breaths of ancient dreams, there swims a leviathan. Not in form nor in flesh; rather, in the punctuating silences between waves—a truth untouched by howling tempest and torrential rain. Only here, amidst the ocean's melody, does one learn the song of silence, a symphony composed in tongues unheard by land creatures.
The sailors used to speak, eyes glazed and unfocused. Stories woven with threads of tenebrous ink—not meant to be remembered, yet inextricably tied to the threads of their souls. In harrowing awe, they confessed they had heard intricate harmonies guiding the pulse of the sea, overhead like celestial music before star-infested skies. The stories spoke of these melodies spinning a narrative tapestry invisible to all but the most fervent of its seers, dreamers with ears tuned both to sound and to what lay beyond it.
In coastal shanties dimly lit and raucous, symphonies sung too late at night, one might hear of Mara. She walked the dark moors warmed by the night's embrace, speaking to shadows that crowded the outskirts where lantern-light could not reach. Mara claimed kinship with the leviathan, as though wrapped in its braid of whispers and ancient labyrinthine echoes.
Despite the skepticism, her voice rang clear in hearts stranded between disbelief and fragile reverie. She told of giants caught in a web of marine stars; nocturnal voyagers adrift upon glistening mist. Each leviathan whimper tethered to near-forgotten shores revealed hieroglyphs in cosmic hymn that she alone deciphered.
Should chance bestow one serenity amidst light breaks curling on the horizon, perhaps you might glimpse what Mara saw—a monstrous beauty, silvery and ethereal, commanding the riddles of ocean's rhetoric. She beckoned with trembling hands, urging the world not yet broken by dawn to open its eyes and dance to silent symphonies. To wander eternally entwined with honey-dipped echoes and the leviathan's allure beneath glistening seams.
Eventide's Interlude