“The tapetail larva is becoming the female whalefish, and you can watch it happen.”
A Silence denizen of The Metamorphs
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It was three families until science caught up — tapetail larva, bignose male, whalefish female, all one animal. The Ascendant is the moment of change itself: the larva's long tapering tail still trailing, the female's whale-like body already forming. The most extreme metamorphosis in vertebrates, caught in the act.
It hangs in the Midnight between what it was and what it will be, neither larva nor female, both. The Whalefish visits it like a diary entry come alive; the young gather to watch change happen in real time.
Every transformation ends. The Ascendant will finish becoming — the tail will shorten, the body will fill — and the moment will be over. But there are always more larvae, and the change never really stops.
“The Ascendant is almost finished changing — the tapetail is shortening, the female's body filling in — and the Whalefish has started visiting daily, like a relative at a bedside. Transformations end. This one is ending soon. Nobody knows what it becomes after.”
The change is almost complete. What comes after?
Legends caught mid-transformation into their final form. Three families in one body. Two fish in one bloodstream. Change is the only honest thing down here.
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