H'Noth Luck
From an icy bed you arise, without memory in a dark room.
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The door opens onto the shore, midway between your mother and father. Your heart melts the frozen sea, and you see your mother again. When you peer into the wall, your father comes forth and holds your hand again.
Together your mother and father govern the land. In time they build a towering cathedral and summon kindly spirits from the heavens. With your parents these spirits build a new city, a city of love and faith. Many years later you too become a spirit, and when this happens you rise into the heavens, where in the ecstasy of a timeless bliss you dwell in the Beatitude.
The End
The door is locked.
You have found a key.
The End
When you look into the mirror, you see nothing but darkness. Then, from the darkness the voice of a woman speaks out to you:
“I know who you are,” the voice says. “You are one who is trapped. Your memories have been erased. Listen carefullly to my words, as they provide the key to your escape...”
“Long ago a city was built, the City of N'oth. At first the people of this city were loving and kind. Then one day a wicked spirit crept into the heart of the city, and the people of N'oth became proud and selfish. Science and business supplanted religion, and a secular miasma descended upon the city. In time N'oth decayed into a lifeless abstraction. Where N'oth once stood, nothing was left but an empty grid...”
“Then one day there was a miracle: mysteriously from the grid a beautiful woman arose...”
“Her name was H'nuth H'las. She wandered the grid in search of companionship, but found no one.”
“One day, exhausted, she collapsed. Then, when she was about to give up all hope, a ghost visited her and gave her a magic mouth. This mouth was a gateway between the earthly and heavenly realms — whenever it opened it gave birth to mystical creatures. ”
“Twice H'nuth H'las looked up to the sky, and twice a child came forth from her parted lips...”
“Her first child was a formless creature named Organa. Organa was happy to be born, and she loved her mother. However, Organa suffered a terrible longing for a companion. She wandered the empty grid for many years, hoping to find a lover. Having found no one, she ceased her wandering and became the sea. ”
“ The turbulent waves that appear from time to time on her surface expressed her rage against the disintegration of N'oth and the desolation of the grid that was once N'oth...”
“As luck would have it, when H'nuth H'las looked to the sky and opened her mouth a second time, a son was born. His name was Logos. Rigid and angular, he too had a tremendous thirst for love, and he too wandered the empty grid...”
“One day, Logos found the shore, and when he walked into the waves, Organa lovingly washed over him. Logos fell in love with Organa, and they became husband and wife. Their only child was a strangely-shaped creature who took on the watery nature of her mother and the rigid form of her father. She was named Lydia...”
“Then calamity struck. The world descended into an ice age. Organa froze and Logos transformed into a wall. This wall that was once Logos rose up from Organa's shores and embraced her. Lydia wandered along the shore between the sea and the wall, looking for her father's face within the stones...”
“She walked this way for many years. Then, one day, the light of the full moon revealed a narrow crack on the surface of Organa's frozen body. This crack was a mere sliver, not even wide enough for an ant to slip through. But Lydia was flat: like her father in his original form, she had no depth, only width and height. Easily she slipped into the space in the ice...”
“The crack opened into a tunnel which descended deep beneath her mother's icy surface. The tunnel led to a door which opened into a dark room with a bed and a mirror. But when the door shut, it locked, and Lydia was trapped. No matter how much she tried, she could not open the door. Freezing and exhausted, she threw her body upon the bed and fell into a deep sleep. In her first dream her mother visited her...”
“In Lydia's dream her mother appeared not as a formless creature, but as a beautiful woman. Organa embraced her daughter and then breathed warmth into her heart. Lydia was overwhelmed with joy. She entered a state of ecstasy, then she fell into her second dream...”
“In her second dream Lydia's father visited her and breathed reason into her soul. Now when reason entered Lydia, she gained something and she lost something. She gained the gift of knowledge of space and time. This enabled her to think about her body and its place in the world on the one hand, and the time within which her thinking moved on the other. But when her soul received this gift, she lost her memory of who she was and where she had come from...”
“I am the memory of that girl ” the voice in the mirror says, “and you are the one who inhabits her body. The voice you hear is your own voice. The story I told is your own story. Now when you go to the door, it will open up into a new land. But I can say no more — what you will find behind the door is something you must see for yourself...”
The voice leaves the mirror and enters your heart, and as she enters she says your name, a name which is also her name. Then you remember everything, and as you remember, you hear the door unlock...