"Walking across the playa at night, stars overhead, whole universes unseen, it feels like you are stepping over the face of the moon. In the distance you see faint lights, and the playa earth looks as if it had been stripped back, ruptured from the inside out. You walk through ripped earth, zig zagging to reach the center. Once there, you see a large thin Chasm, stretching through the buckled playa. Arcane periscopes are pointing down into it, as if inserted there by an earlier civilization. There are portholes to look through, and as you do so you see the cosmos below the flat earth on which you stand. Except the heavenly bodies on the other side are closer, much closer …" |
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