Mortality

 Mortality                                              -      N      -
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  Standing here, an immense sadness weighs heavily on your heart and
presses down on your shoulders, inexplicable yet pervasive.  You are acutely
aware of tragedy, cruelty, and loneliness in the world but words betray you.
This heavy net of a universe's vast cares and concerns cannot be thrown off
your very movements seem suppressed along with your power of speech. 
Indeed, the air itself seems thick and the discouraging the vaguely musty
smell of an antiques shop hangs about.  Above, a curious kaleidoscope of
solemn, dim lights shifts every so often, the patterns unintelligible and
gone before you know it.  Unsure whether you can bear such a place any
longer, you catch yourself before crying out involuntarily.