Hind Mother

Theme: Enemies

Collection: Books of Sorrow

Card: LI: The Hind Mother

[From the Grave of Worlds]

Upon entering the home system of the Nahali.

:+ Tremble, leafeaters, parasites +:

:+ I am come, truth and blade in hand +:

:+ For the blade is the only truth +:

I am hind mother. I speak and stand for birth mother and herd mother, who are gone and memory. Your coming is anticipated, and prepared for. Your forces are counted and enumerated. Your reductionist thought, the false logic that because a thing happens it is meant to happen, is known and rejected.

:+ Come then, slay me if you can +:

:+ Test the truth of my claim +:

:+ Let us stake our souls in the wager +:

The outcome is already known, and accepted. I am the hind mother, who follows birth and herd mother. Our judgment is final, and irreversible. Our response is long-prepared, and quickly delivered. 

:+ The universe is a whetstone +:

:+ Honing life into its final, perfect form +:

:+ A straight line guided by a single rule +:

:+ Life is the struggle to live +:

:+ If you cannot defeat me, you are unworthy of life +:

You are wrong, but we shall instruct and show you. This is done, and completed. 

:+ You shall die +:

This is agreed, and mourned. At the will and command of birth mother and herd mother, all herd members have autoasphyxiated. 

Hear me, for I am the hind mother, last and alone. 

The entropic device was primed and detonated within the solar mass of our star when your ships were found and detected in our home and system. 

Our star will soon detonate. This detonation will carry the entropic particles to neighboring stars, which will also detonate. New entropic waves will be created, and the cycle will repeat. Over the millennia, the chain reaction will annihilate this galaxy. 

If we will not survive, then nothing shall. 

:+ On my throne I am invulnerable +:

:+ You die in vain +:

:+ Your spite will not stay my rule +:

Then rule over ashes and dust. This is our judgment, and sentence.