Dr Jacqueline Coombe
speaker
815 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 1 Jul
Dr Jacqueline Coombe’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Stairs emerged out of the gloom, shiny and slick in my lamplight.
At the top of the stairs stood a basin that could only be of their make, all sticks and sinew twine and leather.
A deer hung above it on a rope that vanished into the dark above.
It dribbled fresh blood from its ravaged neck into the basin.
The mountain goose paused beside it, instructed me with a single flicker of their eyes, and then disappeared into the blackness.
I stood a moment by the basin, feeling the weight of the gun on my back, the brush of clothing against my skin, the strain of the elastic lampstrap against my sweaty forehead.
I smelled must and death and listened to the shudder of feather against feather, and I knew what to do.
I knew how I should enter what I now understood was a temple.
I stripped from the waist up and did not care about the cold that puckered my flesh.
I pushed my palms into the blood and painted my face and chest with it, and then crossed the wet floor into a dark that seemed to open beyond the mountain, beyond stars, so massive a dark that it could have swallowed the world.
And in its center, a shape that twisted my sight.
Reality sloughed off it like so much water off duck feathers.
It was white as absence, zero made color.
It wholly resisted shadow, and in my eyes it was at once a flat shape and beyond our dimensions, vaguely organized like a water droplet as huge as a mountain.
The point of its tip wriggled and stretched.
It parted and sipped the air.
My skin chilled as the blood smeared across it evaporated, reduced to its component cells.
Then that snout dipped.
A figure lay sprawled on the floor before it.
No mountain goose, but a human, stretched out in supplication.
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