For the first time in a while last night, I had a visceral lucid dream. It's hard to properly describe, but i found myself without context sitting under a tree on a grassy hill in the red twilight of some setting in Abeyance, and I had a video camcorder setup. Then, suddenly this enormous creature rises up over the horizon, and just kind of relaxes there, doing nothing. I know it knows I'm here, but it doesn't bother me. Instead I start hearing what sounds like a hymn, music, filtering down the wind from it, like a choir of people singing in a language I don't know. But, after a while, for whatever reason, I begin to understand the lyrics, and I still remember them completely, and they give me an extreme emotional reaction and I still can't quite figure out why. I woke up crying, which is something that has never happened to me before.

Either way, this is probably the most emotionally powered, raw thing I have ever drawn.

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The Leviathan's Song:

I mourn a brother, a sister.
I mourn a lover, a mother, a father.
I mourn for those with names no longer.
I will mourn forever and ever-after.

I will be here for the dead, the dying.
I will be here for lost and the fading.
I will be here when the light is fleeting.
I will be here to guard them while they are resting.