From beneath, they come.
They were here long before there were words, long before there were songs, long before there was man. Already then, they had vast cities. We grew and evolved and triumphed over all we surveyed, never knowing they were there.
They didn’t want us to know, not yet.
Dark they were, and slippery, and possessing of powers we cannot match and wisdoms we cannot comprehend. When they come up to the surface for us in their numbers, pushed up in gushing waves of thick, boiling fluids from deep within the earth, we will already be completely and totally unprepared.
Fortunately they’re, like, an inch tall and you can just step right on them. No big.