The Umbral Signs II:

Aries: Sight. What is sight? Another way for the world to lie to you. The world is so much more beautiful now, a cool and dark kalideoscope of aroma.

Taurus: Why do they hide in the frozen deep? What compels them to crawl from their holes to brave the bitter wind and snow? You know not, and you are hungry nonetheless.

Gemini: The others fear this place, fear the things that stalk it. For you, this is a calm place, despite what strange life it supports. You hear their servos whirring in the night and it helps you fall asleep.

Cancer: Night falls and the nuns patrol the streets. You hear their arias on the wind, and some nights you cannot help but creep from your bed to watch them drag their heavy censers through the alleys, watchful.

Leo: You’ve died before. This isnt the first time, and it wont be the last. You don’t get the hype.

Virgo: You saw them once. Descending from the clouds to fish for leviathans. Clashing like a thunderstorm over the catch, guns and engines ablaze. You felt so small.

Libra: You were so hungry, so impossibly hungry. You wandered into the starless night and smelled something faint on the wind. Speed like you never knew was possible.

Scorpio: They mistake you for death and they are wrong. What is rot but the start of the next phase? The cradle for some new mold.

Ophiuchus: The you you knew is gone. You are the you something else knew now. But you still feel like you, or the you that it knew. Your dreams are filled with radio chatter.

Sagittarius: Combated? No. There is no resisting this green mantle. Pruned? Shaped? Gardened? Yes. You shall be the tailor of the old untamed.

Capricorn: Wong they say. What is wrong anymore? What would they know of your love? Of your children? Wrong. They must be so terribly lonely without the eggs.

Aquarius: Heat. That was always the problem, the heat. Bodies get hot, and they must rest or die. The solution was to become molten. To exist as bounty. You will exist long, long after these poor cold souls.

Pisces: The canyons are a forest of fossilized bone. What titans they must have been. You hope they died in a kinder world than yours.