Dana Cardinal
speaker
151 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 7 Jul
Dana Cardinal’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
and hunched against one of the rocks is what I have been looking for.
Here is the murderer of Marcus Vanston.
I walk hesitantly forward.
The creature eyes me warily.
It seems jittery, like it might bolt or attack at any moment.
It is vaguely human-shaped, with dark, smooth skin, large white eyes, no nose, a mouth that opens and shuts with little wet pops.
Hello, my name is Dana Cardinal, I tell it.
I reach a handout placatingly.
I've come to see you about an angel formerly named Marcus Vanston.
The wet little pops get louder and closer together.
Its long limbs swing back and forth, and it starts toward me.
There is nothing I can do if it wants to hurt me, and so I stand my ground.
It gets close to me, so close that I can smell it.
And it smells like everything.
It smells like every smell at once.
I can smell an entire universe, and it's so overwhelming that I almost faint.
But I hold myself on my feet through sheer stubbornness.
It says,
Of course, it does not have our language.
It has the language of everything.
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