What happened?
I got lost in a trance. I woke up to this view of the Moon Temple. But not the one here, somewhere else.
It was like I was having all these conversations with myself. Or maybe, overhearing conversations? There was a lot of talking things through.
Damn, you took those ripe truffles, huh?
Yes. PAN floated me there when I passed out. I don't really know what I was thinking, taking them before flying.
At least you lived to learn that lesson.
I learned. I learned a lot. I had this feeling, like I was hollow, and didn't know who I was. And I couldn't think of an idea of who I was. I don't think I ever thought about it before then. I never felt like a person. I feel like I'm present, now.
Yeah, taking those fungi by yourself can do that to you. Everyone is present, everyone is a person made up of their own experiences, it's just that we don't like to process any of those experiences, you know? Those things make you think. Force you to think. It will leave you alone with your darkest, emptiest thoughts. You know that could have destroyed you?
It didn't, though. And I woke up there. The moon temple is alive, Raptor. The blue jay is there. They're real.
No shit?
I get it now. I get what it means to be the pigeon. To be Vasan. To be one with PAN. To have met the Corevocatrix. To have met the Astrocartographer. I get the meaning of all this now.
Oh god, here we go. Tell me what it means.
Divinity. Destiny. We're all archetypes, here.
Just say the thing.
It means I'm a god, Raptor.
Yeah?
and so are you.
Welcome to the illuminated, Vasan. You saved this universe from being a dead end, for me.
Thanks for waiting for me.
Anyway, here's your mask back. I don't know how you see in this thing.
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