I once again made lore from things that linger in my brain. Enjoy!
Do you ever think about how the universe in all its love for its players pushed back the voids of sky and below to make more space for us to build and create, knowing we can get over any challenge?
The call of the void is a popular real world phenomenon where the need to go deeper that can't be described in any other way. How these living caves are perfectly made for us to continue deeper and deeper with lures and promises of riches and treasures the further down you go. How you can stand at the surface and stare into gaping maws of chasms and no longer see the bottom.
It's how the environment itself gets harder, harsher, and darker closer to the bedrock you go. It steals your life and shows you abandoned ancient cities of the people that came before you.
These ancients likely felt this same pull. The same need to know how far the depths will allow you to go. It makes me wonder if anything else could still be hidden, further forever downwars. Or maybe it has already been consumed.
The sky is another story though.
The higher you go, the more life seemly ceases to exist. The urge changes from going deeper to ever spiralling upwards in attempts of freedom, solitary, or power over those below.
Without the boundaries of the earth expansion seems endless.
But a color or shade does not bind the void.
The depth of the sky is not unfamiliar to the depths of below.
The void is just where the universe ceases to exist. It is encompassing and inescapable.
The void simply allows the universe to have its fun. The universe may be kind but the void rarely ever is.
It continues to call to anyone who can hear.
You'll come to hear its melody eventually.
Inspired by: Fear of Depths by Jacob Geller. Go watch it, its super good. Tw for claustrophobic themes tho.