Prompt

(illustration by Jeff Easley) The shape is vast, segmented, layered in calcified plates that shift and rearrange themselves as you watch, as if alive with some distant memory of movement. The uppermost section—where a face might be—glows faintly, faint strands of pulsing light threading through the mineralized surface like trapped fireflies. The rest of its form ripples in slow, deliberate undulations, And then it moves. The entire thing tilts forward, toward you, the segments shifting, the pl