I am a cage, in search of a bird.

[INTERNAL TRANSMISSION — SINGING CRANE PROJECT]

If you are reading this, you were not meant to.

Do not attempt to trace this signal. You will not find a source that still exists.

You have been told that the sky is empty, that the Synod ascended humanity above the heavens, that dreaming of wings is a sin. You have been told that anything that flies is a lie.

There are regions where standard containment has failed. Entire zones where the Rot has taken root beyond recovery. Hellspawn do not respect doctrine. They do not respond to purification. They do not wait to be understood.

You will not hear our name spoken in hallowed halls and holy places. We are the answer to problems that cannot be acknowledged.

Stay where you are. Do not interfere. There are things we are not permitted to say. There are things we are required to deny.

If you have lost someone to a “cleansing,” if your settlement was marked and abandoned, if you were told there was no alternative—

there was.

There always is.

It just does not belong to you.

If you continue searching, you will find contradictions.

Follow them.

They will lead you closer to the truth than any sanctioned text.

Final advisory: If you see something with wings that does not cast a shadow, your only choices are let it in or die trying to keep it out. At that point, this message no longer applies.

[END TRANSMISSION] [TRACE INITIATED — SOURCE LOST]