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The Dive
深潜
为了生命，萨托娜下潜了。为了复仇，西罗下潜了。为了理解，奥拉什下潜了。
针舰刺穿了世界的皮肤，深深地挖了个洞。穿过一层层的泡沫，金属和冰冷的元素泥浆。奥拉什津津有味地看着飞船上的源洋地图，从天使般的高高的云层甲板上，向下穿过风暴、海洋和漂浮世界的板块，直到被挤压的地心。
他们遇到了横跨大陆的怪物。巨大的海葵伸出发光的触须引诱它们上钩。西罗驾驶着针舰穿过他们，他们流着黑碳胶状物质和白霜。
他们来到一个平静的地方，在一块金属板下面。
“我要用传感器。”奥拉什小声说。
“听……”
在湿漉漉的暗金色的舵舱里，他们倾听着船的声音，船也倾听着源洋的挤压运动。
他们听到了大陆碰撞的声音。他们听到了噼啪声和氦氖雨的撞击声。他们听到了怪物的挣扎声。他们听到远处传来海水上升的呻吟声。被遥远的卫星拖曳着。
“卫星连珠是真的……”萨托娜发出嘘嘘的声音。“已经开始了。”
在他们身后，西罗想起了产房，古代的探险者曾在这里辛苦地进行手术和管理，剥去他们从深处造出来的东西的茧和壳，但没有一个新生能活下来……
“下面有东西。”她低声说。
“某种秘密。”
利维坦在他们的头上若现，它的额头和他们童年时代的所有大陆一样大，它那巨大的鳍阵，在它生命的闪电中噼里啪啦作响。用一种微波般的声音在针舰的船体里轰鸣着：
++你们必须回头—
—把自己从深渊里拯救出来++
++从你们自己手中拯救世界—
—你必须回头++
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原文：
Verse 1:7 The Dive
For life, Sathona dove. For vengeance,Xi Ro dove. And Aurash dove to understand.
The needle ship pierced the skin of the world and burrowed deep. Through layers of foam and metal and cold elemental slush. Aurash devoured the ship's maps of Fundament, from the high angelic cloud decks, down and down through storms and oceans and plates of floating world, into the crush of the core.
They met monsters of continental scope.Vast anemones that raised glowing tentacles to bait them in. Xi Ro flew the needle ship through them and they bled black carbon jelly and frost.
They came to a still place, beneath a plate of metal.
"I'll use the sensors," whispered Aurash.
“Listen..."
In the wet gold dark of the helm, they listened to the ship, and the ship listened to the crushing motions of Fundament.
They heard the collision of continents. They heard the patter and the crash of helium-neon rain. They heard the struggles of monsters. And they heard the distant groan of the ocean rising. Tugged by distant moons.
"The syzygy is real..." Sathona hissed. "It's already begun."
Behind them, Xi Ro thought of the birthing-room, where ancient explorers had labored over surgeries and administrations, peeling back the chrysalis and the caul of that which they had made from the deep, whose birth none of them would survive...
"There's something down here," she whispered. “Something secret."
And the Leviathan loomed over them, its brow as huge all the continents of their childhood, its great array-fins crackling with the lightning of its life. Booming into the hull of the needle ship in a microwave voice:
++YOU MUST TURN BACK—
—SAVE YOURSELVES FROM THE DEEP++
++SAVE THE WORLD FROM YOURSELVES—
—YOU MUST TURN BACK++