It awoke one night. We beheld its visage as it tore apart the night sky to reveal an infinite depth in which the stars formed with far more clarity than any constellation. They amassed to bring us both rapture and horror in one simple glance. We met then the gaze of a being so indefinitely vast that we are uncertain of any notion of scale or distance in the great beyond even unto this day. A single eye led us all to a single discovery all at once.
We are not alone.
Our world is no monolith. We reacted in many foreseeable and unforeseen ways. Some of us knelt. Some of us ran. More than a few of us simply carried on as if nothing was out of the ordinary. Few of us saw. It cared not. All it seemed to do was seek its own form of understanding, a cosmic fish eye seeing our solar system as its all-too-small aquarium. Perhaps it noticed there were people on our world. Perhaps it simply noticed movement the way we might notice a fly buzzing in the wind, a buzzing and irrelevant nuisance.
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We know not. It cared not.
Some years have passed, and while rumors exist of the observing constellation blinking its one cyclopean eye, no proof has been presented. No reliable witnesses have come forward, all too mentally distant to be trusted. So we live on with our silent observer. Ants on a dirt hill. Some of us don't even believe the sky looked any different than before, that it was all a conspiracy to serve some unknown or guessed political cause. Some suspect the eye is a projection from some secret government military base.
I know what it is, though. It is a visitor. Not a visitor one might bring to a house as a guest, but a visitor one might find at a museum. We are merely educational entertainment. We are born, we live, we die, it cares not. We move and it watches the energy pass through us as if we were fire lighting a chemist's stove.
Of this I am convinced.
As I sit here in this open field, on this cloudless windy, starry night, I almost see it blink. I am brought to witness. I am among the stars now.