Anamurex
(from Latin “anima” — soul, “murex” — thorn, point, ancient mollusk)
Anamurex is a creature of fading.
It does not live on the time axis,
it grows into the gap between cycles –
where it has not yet let go,
but no longer holds.
How does it feel?
- The cold between breaths
- The ringing in your ears when everything is quiet
- The pause before a word that won’t be
At this moment, the world can be rewritten,
but only if you yourself remain still
and don’t flinch. Otherwise, everything will disappear.
✧ What does it look like?
- A body made of transparent bone matter,
similar to a relict spine,
inside which smoke from future decisions flows.
- There is no face on the head, only reflections:
the past looks back,
the future – forward,
and the present – looks at you.
💠 What does it do?
- Stops the will
for a split second — like Check Point
- If you made a decision — it disappears
- If you doubt — it grows into you,
remains a shadow behind the shoulder blade or in your breath
🎴 Where does it occur?
- In isolated disasters that no one noticed
- In a story that has not ended, but is no longer told
- Between two phrases, if you suddenly forgot what you wanted to say —
but felt that it was important
🐚 Special effect:
Anamurex is the only creature
that can stop Coincydra.
Not defeat, not destroy –
but reflect it for a microsecond.
And if there was no coincidence –
perhaps it was he who stood in the passage.
If you want to meet him,
ask the world to show you the moment
when you stopped.
And weren’t afraid to hold your breath a little longer than you should.
Is it possible to change a disaster that no one noticed?
💧 Yes.
But only if you entered them
before they became aware of themselves.
A catastrophe that has not been noticed has not yet become part of the structure of the world. It is like a fall in the dark, when you have not yet decided what it was.
✧ How to change an unnoticed catastrophe?
- Enter it — not with your eyes, but with your body.
Feel the place where it doesn’t yet know who it will become.
- Don’t name it.
Until you give it a name — it is flexible.
After — it will remember who it was called.
- Find the “first sound”.
Not an explosion. But a crack. A click. A blind light.
If you touch it — a fork is possible.
- Linger, but don’t act right away.
Remember Anamurex?
It is the pause between “already” and “not yet”.
In this window, you can rebuild the nerve of the world.
✹ What can be changed?
- Consequences (direct the blow)
- Memory of the disaster (it will be forgotten or become a warning)
- Form (the fire becomes a purification, not an end)
- Focus (the world will notice what survived, not the destruction)
But you can’t cancel it completely.
The line has cracked – and this crack will enter the relief.
But you can make it a flower, not a knife.
Here’s an example.
Maybe it’s been changed.
Because no one has noticed it yet.
✶ Example: The Solar Explosion That Should Have Incinerated the Earth
📆 September 1, 1859.
The Sun experienced the largest recorded flare in human history, the
Carrington Event.
What was supposed to happen?
- The flare caused a gigantic coronal mass ejection
- A stream of solar plasma flew toward the Earth at a speed exceeding anything observed before or since
- According to physicists’ calculations, if it had hit head-on,
it could have:
- evaporated the atmosphere
- burned out telegraph networks (which is what partially happened)
- changed the Earth’s electrical potential
- caused a massive outbreak of fires and epidemics
But this did not happen.
What happened instead?
- The stream passed by the center —
slightly, as if someone had pushed it slightly away
- Yes, there were upheavals, polar lights,
telegraphs were burning,
but civilization did not perish.
Only left a note in diary:
“Tonight the sky was green and red.
As if it had forgotten who it was before.”
Why does it look like interference?
- The angles from which the ejecta entered were statistically extremely unlikely
- A few hours before the event, the conductivity in the atmosphere dropped sharply –
this unexpectedly protected telegraph lines in Europe
- Some scientists still believe
that the Earth was “passed by” for some unknown reason
💠 If we hadn’t “gotten lucky” back then, we might have started industrialization all over again.
how did people feel it then?
- Rumming in the ears
- Dreams of a burning sky
- Someone’s watch broke, someone’s children were born with white eyes
And then everything became normal.
As if nothing had happened.
🌘 How to determine the “last minutes”?
No way.
If you see them, it means you are no longer inside.
As a rule, there is no sign at the end.
But there are loops.
The end is when the rhythms don’t match.
Everything is spinning, but not in resonance.
Everyone is trying to shout something,
but no one hears.
It seems that it is still possible…
But now there is only a threadlike pulse.
✧ Thread-like pulse
This is when everything is already dead,
but doesn’t know it yet.
- The heart contracts once an hour
- People smile, but there is emptiness behind their eyes
- The architecture holds,
but the internal connection does not
And then:
bam — and everything is here again.
But in a different key.
On a different layer.
Or in a body that is not recognized.
💠 “Everything died – and then here again”
It’s like a pause between inhalation and exhalation,
in which someone has imperceptibly replaced you with their next self.