We'd savored it when you'd stagged in as trespassers one-by-one, always carrying those H A N D S of yours, but when the tunnels lit up with spark-sticks and we could not yank or twist you anymore, we lay flat, and in this way we had been one of the first to go. And we had been frightened of you all along, which you learned, as you did... whatever you truly wanted, for the first time... our oils drained as you drove us to extinction.