spiralis · gastropod · foreign sea
hold it to the ear and the wrong sea answers. not the one you walked along last summer; one with a different salt, in a different language, ringing from a harbour you have never seen.
it is the size of a coin and it knows things. the inside is pearled with the patience of a creature that has gone elsewhere. it has not been a body for a long time.
field-note · the hollow holds a temperature one degree off the room.