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The surface is a lie we agree on.

Scroll. The light has about two hundred metres left in it.

Twilight

Reds vanish first. A cut here bleeds green. Fish become silhouettes, then rumours.

Midnight

One thousand metres. No sun has ever reached this water. Pressure: a hundred atmospheres, patient and total.

Something is glowing

Not for you. For whatever is smaller than it, and curious, and about to make a mistake.

4,000 m

The floor. Silt, a whale's ribcage, and time doing nothing in particular. You came all this way to find out it's quiet.