Madness string 111629

Random mermaid
When all of your nightmares are for a time obscured, as by a shining brainless beacon or a blinding eclipse of the many terrible shapes of this world, when you are calm and joyful and finally entirely alone, then in a great new darkness, you will finally execute your special plan.

Once we have an explanation - correct or incorrect - we are complacent, at least for awhile.