Hundotte - Aud Be'af (Echoes 2)

(Oct 2019)

The second installment in the Echoes series.

"Aud Be'af" in my language Hund'aria translates literally to "in falling". It is a feeling of emptiness, yet the very opposite of emptiness; a state of hypnosis, yet the rush of falling at terminal velocity. Numbing, yet enthralling beyond belief. You feel absolutely nothing perceivable, yet your heart is racing. Your mind is a thick cloud of snow, dizzying, full yet empty.

It is only describable by the story that this song tells.

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A hunter goes into a snow-capped forest to hunt a wolf.

Chasing his target, he passes through a digital cave where all his memories are played on the crystals in the cave.

He comes out of the other end, into a solitary view over a majestic but empty snowy valley. He is the only living animal he can see for miles.

He looks up, and sees himself, the moon.It is bright, beautiful, hypnotic, pulsing, mesmerizing, and calls to him.

He follows it to the edge of the cliff, and steps off.

“Aud Be’af” is the name of the feeling you feel as you are falling off the cliff, staring up at the moon, yourself, surrounded by the falling spirals of snowflakes of memories rising up around you, smiling.

And as the hunter hits the bottom, he realises he is the wolf.