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" I remember my first weeks on this planet, it was distressing, to say the least... my friends and coworkers were gone, but i managed to get a grip on how to guide myself here if i wanted to survive.
But i cant deny that i often found myself on the verge of loosing it, the leviathan attacks, the lack of minerals, the depleting power and those damned booming fish, but i couldn't stay mad at them for long, this is they're planet after all, as far as they know, i'm the alien.
I still remember her voice calling to me as if it were yesterday, despite how soothing and comforting it was, i thought i was going insane. I quickly became obsessed with finding from where this voice originated from, so i dived deeper into the terrifying depths of the ocean.
The deeper i went the louder i could hear it, i was getting closer.
A part of me wanted to turn back, admit to myself that there was nothing down there and i was truly, profoundly alone, the other one, however, was thriving with a mix of hope and fear of what i could find.
Or rather who.
I don't know what i was expecting... something that could end me in mere seconds? an automated voice? a creature so huge it could engulf your eyesight no matter how separated you were from it? maybe something that just wished to toy with me for as long as it pleased... but oh how wrong i was.
When i first laid my eyes upon her, my body and soul felt like they were frozen in time, but not from fear or shock, it was purely from the majestic sight that had emerged from the depths, right before my eyes. She was astronomical, the wave of her tendrils as they flowed with the current were mesmerizing, the strange serenity and tranquility in her four luminescent eyes, the radiance in her two giant antennae's, although i am merely human, we understood each other. And for the first time here, i felt at home.
I imminently fell in love with this eldritch emperor of the sea.
It kills me to leave, it truly, truly does, I would happily let this bacterium consume me and let me die by your side even if it meant for me saving my last breath for a final "i love you", but what would be the point if i wont be able to cherish all these memories for the rest of my human life? i know you can at least hear me as i did to you, and from the bottomless depth of my heart, i mean it when i say this, i love you, always and forever.
For whoever finds this, i hope you learn to appreciate the beauty and diversity of this planet as much as many before you and i. Swim with the current. Take care ocean palace. "