“Dead? Not exactly, no. You’re not dead because you were never alive. At least, not in the way you were thinking about it. On the other hand, you’re bound to undergo adventures and transformations that render your wildest narratives of bravery and heriosm into tedious reifications of something too long forgotten to be easily represented to the conscious mind. Something at once agonic and ecstatic. Words end long before you get anywhere near what they orbit, and this is more true in this matter than many others. Nevermind what you are. Just observe what is being accomplished, and how. The why of it will come to you rather naturally, just as it did before.” — an anonymous informant