Congratulations on Awakening from Your Thousand Year Slumber!

One of your mouths will open, a polyp like confluence of muscles and tissues stretching themselves out and exposing a lining of teeth within the mouth, tongues lashing at one another as if locked in deadly combat. This will be, to put it delicately, a yawn.

The yawn will be followed by the opening of one of your many eyes. It will be one of the prettier ones, all scintillating colors and wild flecks of ash descending from it as your gaze slowly burns out pieces of reality, simply by resting in one spot too long. With its delicate blinking another will open, then another, then another, a bevy of imagery beyond consciousness, beyond knowing, a slight of visual noise beyond cacophony that sees in every direction at once in infinite dimension and beyond and past into places where it is as dark and porous to your sight as the night sky is to the eyes of man.

The cords of your body, bound by plates and mucus and things too simple and old to be described and comprehended by mortal minds, the ur stuff of being, will stretch and flex. The Truth, that is the solitary truth of existence, will address your mind for a moment before fading just as quick as it came. You will not be so unlike us in that regard.

But unlike us your concern for this knowing will not sustain. You will grin, a thousand mouths puckering and shuddering with joy at awareness and revel in that moment that you may, for this time, walk the earth. And walk, in a sense, you shall, claws digging into the dirt below your feet, prying at the earth above you. They’ll begin working, mechanically, shoving yourself upward and forward in the direction you sense the sun to be in, far distant, covered by thousands of miles of dust and rock that has settled above you during your slumber.

As you dig, you’ll begin to hum a tune, wordless and nearly beyond hearing all the same. Some trapped miners in some weird South American country will catch a few bars of it and, for a moment, feel like the world isn’t so bad. Which, at present, it isn’t. But in about a month and a half you’re going to get out of the upper mantle of the Earth and into the world again and then that’s going to change, probably forever.

Congratulations on Awakening from Your Thousand Year Slumber!