Venus Fall Quotes

“She waited barefoot beneath the great reflector for the Kyprian to come and take her to the outer sands. She didn’t scream when they came, she didn’t cry, she simply faded away in silence. I woke to the eye shining through the lattice of my shanty. I could hear Bendo gnawing on the blades of grass outside. Minosh had told me she was sure many more species existed before the Kyprian arrived but only a few survived the induction of gold.”
― K.P. Ambroziak, El and Onine

“I thought creators were supposed to tell their younglings they were special. I didn’t know mine meant something more when she told me. I could’ve never known what she’d seen in the water. My future was a secret she kept bound up inside her.”
― K.P. Ambroziak, El and Onine