The Lurking
Created by Talandri this aberration has sense broken free from his control. What is she planning?
...and many many many more.
Deep into that cosmos peering, long I was trapped wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Xanadu?" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Xanadu!" — Merely this, and nothing more. - Xioa
The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,—not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself. - Xioa
It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream. - Xioa
You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. - Xioa
Dreams are the eraser dust I blow off my page.
They fade into the emptiness, another dark gray day.
Dreams are only memories of the plans I had back then.
Dreams are eraser dust and now I use a pen.
- Xioa
Yet, mad am I not — and very surely do I not dream. - Xioa