Den Neverwhere: Arrival

"It seems like I was floating in darkness for an extremely long time. Slowly jumbled clouds of electroneural impulses coalesced to form my mind and I became aware of myself as an entity. I drifted across nebulous unfocussed colors.

As I wandered through the maze I saw something. It was an image ... a memory, but it was so fuzzy and indistinct. It seemed as though I was looking at a book. What is a book?

Within the book was an unconnected page. It had something on it ... an incomprehensible labyrinth of lines. The images faded, swept away by a searing light. Other sensations accompanied the radiance, bombarding my emerging consciousness."