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Audio Transcript: The Depths Remember
What the Water Took
Long after humans were gone, the planet kept turning.
We like to think we’d be remembered. That someone, somewhere, might tell our story. But the truth is… the Earth moved on.
The skies cleared. The machines stopped. Cities fell quiet and crumbled into the ground.
It took a long time, but life returned. Not the kind we knew. Not on two legs or with voices like ours.
It happened in the deep.
Not just deep in the ocean — deeper than we ever went. Places too dark and pressurised for our ships. Down there, life changed.
Some of it came from what we’d call octopuses. But not exactly. That old word doesn’t fit anymore.
They weren’t like us. But they were smart. They remembered things through patterns — colour, light, movement. And over time, they began to wonder.
They didn’t build with stone or fire. Their world was fluid. Their tools were waves. Tiny ones — smaller than atoms.
They didn’t need our language. But they found pieces of us anyway.
Melted plastic. Symbols. The shell of something we once used to talk to each other.
They didn’t know what it was.
But it felt… important.
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