![A mysterious nether world, another dimension with blinding lights and strange-shaped objects that no carp had ever seen before. The strangest of all was the massive creature responsible for this outrage, who did not resemble a fish in the slightest. Shockingly, it had no fins whatsoever, but nevertheless could move without them.](https://lettersfortitles.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/luigi-seraphini-codex-seraphinianus-letters-for-titles-vern-tonkin-what-is-that.jpg)
Y: That one on the left looks dangerous.
X: The one on the right looks more joyful, but it’s a moody joy.
Y: Moody. Who are they? They’re staring and it’s creeping me out.
X: No, look, it’s fish.
Y: Is that fish?
Z: It’s something.
X: They can’t see us, those aren’t eyes.
Y: Aren’t they?
X: Oh wait, they’re reacting to us. Look, that one is scowling.
Y: Stop pointing at it.
X: Now this one is scowling, look at its eyebrows. Fins.
Y: Don’t point! Those are eyes and they can definitely see us.
Z: They aren’t paying attention to us at all. Think about a fish in a pond. A bunch of them. Carp.
Y: That’s not a carp. That’s a face.
Z: Face fish. Whatever. There they are in the pond, just beyond the surface of the water, we are inches from them, looking in, and they don’t … More