Floating, the familiar caress, the buoyancy of the sea. One with the waters, dissolving, gradually expanding, spreading, sinking. Sparkling blue, turbid green, then to the twilight reaches of occasional flickers and shadows. Yet deeper, broader, darkness yawning below. Out of the calm, a sense of vertigo rises – suspended over an infinite dark pit. And from its depths, something like an eye opening, non-human, cold and ancient. Its gaze settles on her, focusing, almost leering, almost…lecherous?

She jolts awake, palpitating from the adrenaline, its strange song still ringing and rumbling in her ears.