This Hum Grabs like Slag

It was Paracelsus who first taught Puck how to preserve his seeds perfectly, so as to enable their life force to remain whole within, in readiness.

This sage always engaged with almost everyone, and exchanged his knowledge freely.

He had not, as yet, been reborn, for Puck found that the souls who were presently incarnate would 'hum' when you came to think of them, and he did not.

Some had said that this humming was a sound bite from the earth's radiation surrounding those folk whose feet touched its ground, whereas really it pertained to the collective thought and its mesh of activity, that the soul is immersed in from the moment they are born.

It is quite often one of the last sounds that the dying will hear, or the man in meditation will sense being there, or the inventor will wade into when 'fishing' for ideas.

This hum grabs like slag and when a spirit is awake and fully conscious within his body, this worldly sound is all around him. But Puck could not hear it coming from his friend, and so that told him he must be dwelling in spirit elsewhere.

-Gabriel Brunsdon, Puck in Hell, Azlander Series