"The ground is always talking. Most people are just standing in the wrong place." – field note, Bureau of Impossible Geography
*Bureau of Impossible Geography, Department of Adjacent Realities. Bleed assessment: Myrmecopolis / the Chitinous Mandate. Classification: structural.* Most realities bleed outward through sound or light – a song that turns up in another world's radio static, a colour that should not exist on a neighbouring sky. Myrmecopolis bleeds through floors. The first reports came from buildings in adjacent realities that had no connection to one another except that each stood on bare ground: a railway station, a convent, a car park, a school gymnasium. In each, occupants reported a low hum in the floor at night that had no source, and which a few of them – sensitive individuals, often the very young or the very old – described as *a voice too low to hear saying something kind*. Bureau field equipment recorded infrasound between nine and thirteen hertz. The patterns matched no seismic source. They matched, eleven months later, the rumbles of a herd going to sleep on the Laterite Shelf. The sec...
From the lore of The Chitinous Mandate.