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The Dive
深潛
為了生命，薩託娜下潛了。為了復仇，西羅下潛了。為了理解，奧拉什下潛了。
針艦刺穿了世界的皮膚，深深地挖了個洞。穿過一層層的泡沫，金屬和冰冷的元素泥漿。奧拉什津津有味地看著飛船上的源洋地圖，從天使般的高高的雲層甲板上，向下穿過風暴、海洋和漂浮世界的板塊，直到被擠壓的地心。
他們遇到了橫跨大陸的怪物。巨大的海葵伸出發光的觸鬚引誘它們上鉤。西羅駕駛著針艦穿過他們，他們流著黑碳膠狀物質和白霜。
他們來到一個平靜的地方，在一塊金屬板下面。
“我要用傳感器。”奧拉什小聲說。
“聽……”
在溼漉漉的暗金色的舵艙裡，他們傾聽著船的聲音，船也傾聽著源洋的擠壓運動。
他們聽到了大陸碰撞的聲音。他們聽到了噼啪聲和氦氖雨的撞擊聲。他們聽到了怪物的掙扎聲。他們聽到遠處傳來海水上升的呻吟聲。被遙遠的衛星拖曳著。
“衛星連珠是真的……”薩託娜發出噓噓的聲音。“已經開始了。”
在他們身後，西羅想起了產房，古代的探險者曾在這裡辛苦地進行手術和管理，剝去他們從深處造出來的東西的繭和殼，但沒有一個新生能活下來……
“下面有東西。”她低聲說。
“某種秘密。”
利維坦在他們的頭上若現，它的額頭和他們童年時代的所有大陸一樣大，它那巨大的鰭陣，在它生命的閃電中噼裡啪啦作響。用一種微波般的聲音在針艦的船體裡轟鳴著：
++你們必須回頭—
—把自己從深淵裡拯救出來++
++從你們自己手中拯救世界—
—你必須回頭++
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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++