Riverside Temple

"I'm glad of your choice. I hope you will join us, Twig." At which point, a few more people arrive and sit in the pews as Defelent stands up and walks to the altar and begins to talk.

The sermon is about the importance of mosquitoes; how they provide food for frogs, fish, toads, birds and other creatures, and represent one facet of life's ability to adapt- in this case, to stagnant, temporary bodies of water, like buckets after a period of heavy rain. He says they take nutrients from creatures high on the food chain and return it to the bottom via their parasitism, and that they shouldn't be feared- all mosquito-spread diseases are rare in Riverside since the Temple was founded though the mosquitoes themselves are more numerous.

However, Cassidy won't see or hear all of it as she may suddenly see herself flying through the air above a vast ocean, although as she gets lower it becomes clear that what seemed like water is in fact billions upon billions of beetles, spreading to the horizon- the only point of reference, a mountain. In the centre of the beetles are some rocks, to which people are chained and slowly devoured by the beetles, though their flesh regenerates. Cassidy will soon go zipping off across the ocean of beetles towards the mountain, discovering that it is far vaster than it first seemed. Eventually, or perhaps five minutes later; it's hard to tell, she reaches a shore and soars over a jungle with vast trails of destruction left behind colossal beetles that devour and push over the trees, until they are killed by packs of giant ants, wasps or insect people, that in turn are preyed upon by giant preying mantises and each other. Past the jungle is a vast, flat desert, dotted with termite mounds that go and drag anything that seems edible back into them and so maintain the desert. By this time, she's close enough to mountain to make it out- there's no other mountains nearby, and it seems too regular to be a mountain; it's more like a massive termite mound. As she approaches, its sheer vastness makes it clear that, mountain or mound, it's taller than Everest. As she gets nearer, she may note the holes dotting its surface, from which pour giant termites, wasps, ants, bees and other invertebrates, but not for long- when she's close enough, the vision sends Cassidy down one of the holes, through a labyrinthine maze of passageways and tunnels, lit only by the odd shaft to the surface or, more often, glowworms, fire beetles and other bioluminescent invertebrates. She slows as she approaches the centre, and emerges into a vast chamber, lit by thousands of fire beetles crawling on the walls, floor and ceiling so it appears as bright as day. And sat curled upon a podium in the centre of the cavern in the heart of the termite mound is a vast being longer than two school buses. Its dark purple-hued body is that of a centipede; its head has the vast antler-jaws of a stag beetle. Flanking its head are two claws, bent like those of a praying mantis, and at the end of the creature are three huge scorpion-like tails. Dalachrech eyes Cassidy for a moment, before inclining His head in a nod. At that point, the vision ends.

((I thought it was cool, too; and for the lack of attempts, Dalachrech was sending a pre-recorded vision in which Cassidy had no control- if she saw it, that's what she saw. Cassidy's body and mind went nowhere.))