Deep in THE Infinite Carcosa, past regions most Infinite Lifeforms would never see in their long existences, THE Kaerhold Extraction Deep ran the way it had run for many years.
It sat inside a hollowed mountain range, violet-black rock threaded with veins of raw crimson Infinity, and it made no sound that traveled. That was the first thing captives noticed when the chains dropped them on its platforms. The Deep swallowed noise the way it swallowed everything else, and the silence pressed on the workers harder than any whip would have.
They mined in that silence. Source Lifeforms who had once commanded regions. Infinite Lifeforms taken from the heartland of their own territory. Gilded Ones vanished from Observable Existences that would never trace them.
