114 Hz

114 Hz. This was not the tremor of a seismic wave, the roar of machinery, or the beating of a human heart. This is the frequency of jawbone collision, the beat of pheromones transmitted in chitinous nerves, and the only command sent to the surface world by the giant thing hidden under the Moho. Human beings once thought that wisdom was the end point of evolution and steel was the monument of civilization. Until we discover that we are just a colony of bacteria in the giant petri dish, the biocement it uses to weld the cracks in the earth's crust. When the frequency rings, we will no longer be human. We're just reverberating at 114 Hz.