The Myth of the First Explorer
Telling stories has always been the favoured method of passing on knowledge for the followers of the People’s Will. As time passes and they find new homes across the galaxy, the tradition only grows stronger. Under the light of distant stars that can’t even be seen from the Thousand Colours Moon, sailor parents sing to their children the same old songs of half-forgotten ages past, handed down from tentacle to tentacle, the music of a people in harmony.
The sky is an ocean
With currents ever-shifting
The first explorers
Found uneasy paths
…
With thundering tempests
And tangling darkness
Sometimes they were trapped
And sometimes alone
…
Sometimes they sailed bravely
For far-distant stars
To reach them and find
They were back where they started
…
And so they became
Like shifting ammonia
Following the current
Wherever it took them
…
Leaving behind
Whatever they had to,
Flowing through darkness
And freely through light
…
Rest easy, child
Though the sky may be stormy
Trust that the ocean
Will carry you home.