“In every encounter with every other human being… he preternaturally sensed the occult chance… even the likelihood… of him becoming another mode of himself that he previously never expected or dreamed possible…

But then, it wasn’t merely the humans… however compelling they were… it was the plants, the animals… the stars. Mountains. Spiders. Light’s dalliances with water in the darkness.

He sought his other selves, his possible selves… in every place and relationship imaginable.

And some that weren’t…”

— infraheard