I don't know when the sirens began. I was lost among the many faceless others, a hollow being adrift in the shallows of modernity. I do remember being shoved in the shoulder, as a women, or boy, or no one, ran by. Soon the trickle of ones and twos, running away, running towards, doubled. It then tripled and quadrupled,till finally, the shallows of our modern life experienced the high tide of the universe, come crashing down upon us. I did hear the sirens, eventually, but I now know it was only humanity screaming in unison, a last gasp of freedom being choked from the bodies around me. The siren song of release, from the nightmares yet to come.
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