O'palan Hare | ((link))

Here’s a short piece inspired by the phrase — which I’ll treat as a kind of folkloric or invented name, perhaps for a trickster figure, a lost ritual, or a strange creature from steppe legends. The O'palan Hare

If you see her, do not follow. Do not call out. And above all — do not let her speak first. Because the first thing she’ll say is your deepest secret, wrapped in a riddle. And if you answer wrong, you’ll spend the rest of your days running alongside her, neither hare nor human, forever crossing a landscape that never repeats. o'palan hare

And they always do. Both.