When Fire Speaks of Trauma

When fire speaks of trauma
And walks the Void alone
In six by three years after
The flame will bring us home

They'll open us a doorway
From this world to the last
Then our world will be destroyed
A thing lost to the past

— A child's nursery rhyme from the 1337 Speak reality

Summary

The first part of this nursery rhyme tells of fire speaking, walking through The Void, a time period passing, and then the flame bringing people home.
The next part of this nursery rhyme tells of "them" opening a doorway from the 1337 Speak Reality to "the last" world and the subsequent destruction of the 1337 Speak Reality.

Historical Basis

No one knows exactly when this prophecy was written. The first recording of it was in a book, Mother Goose's Melody in the late 1700s in England, but it definitely predates it.
While it was largely dismissed as "just a nursery rhyme" for a considerably amount of time in the 1337 Speak Reality, there have always been small groups who took the rhyme seriously. With the invention of the internet, these groups slowly formed together into a council of people prepped to escape the 1337 Speak Reality. When Tempest Kwake first landed in that reality, the council started to prep even harder, forming themselves into "Operation GTFO".

Spread

This myth is widespread and there are very few pockets of the world that do not know some variation upon it.

Variations & Mutation

This nursery rhyme has, in fact, been confirmed to have variations in not just English, but also French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Mandarin, Hindi, Nigerian Pidgin, Urdu, and several others. While the wording changes a little from variation to variation, and the tune often changes also, the message remains more or less intact.

This article is a work in progress, and may be subject to changes.

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Date of First Recording

While written record of this rhyme only goes back about 300 years, 1337 Speak Reality historians suspect it is older.

Date of Setting

2023 in the GoTverse, 2066 in the 1337 Speak Reality