[**Image:** Tamahuaq fulfills its last wish to see the sun, at the cost of the Warden’s life. It breaks out of the prison-catacombs of Sond, its hunger outgrowing its body. Its innards blossom into a leafless tree of hyphae and viscera. The price is bitter; it no longer remembers how to photosynthesize. Meanwhile, the Warden’s body lies limp in the morning sun. He is speared on Tamahuaq’s boughs like the prey of a shrike. Yuri falls to his knees at the foot of the tree, despondent. Riven gazes up at the Warden’s body in silence.] ◆◆◆ > _"Th-this is a trick. It must be."_ > >_"Boy, **you** are a trick. A sad, clever trick…"_ One in a series of concept pieces for [Old Sond](https://m0r1bund.com/memories/godless-sond-and-the-ancestral-sarikote/), [the Arkoloteri](https://m0r1bund.com/memories/arkoloteri/), and [Tamahuaq’s company](https://m0r1bund.com/works/moribund/monomyth/) [of expies](https://m0r1bund.com/works/moribund/tamahuaqs/). **[Fallen Arkai](https://inkblot.art/post/cZPjv2OmYKZcpvv3hgw7) ◆ [Control Burn](https://inkblot.art/post/RJej6qPkH4s0RIKaegUB) ◆ [the Lung](https://inkblot.art/post/fe7XTlb9vpen6hAvPhIU) ◆ [Incandescence](https://inkblot.art/post/30Go6a2dQCtUur3HB9C6) ◆ [Foreign Body](https://inkblot.art/post/OHllWltOL71ahZSKw6Pv) ◆ First Light**