A memory is burned into this strange material, an echo of another lifetime... "i came face-to-face with a creature more beautiful and bizarre than anything i have ever seen. despite no discernible eyes, i do not believe it is blind. it was huge, glorious, serene. But then - with a flick of its tentacles, it was gone. i have thought of nothing else since. I can only think of the whale. Whale. Whale. Wail."