Snicker Fig

joyeux-noelle:

The topmost vertebra in your spine, just below where it meets your skull, has a thin notch in the back. You can feel it if you run your finger down from the base of your skull. This is the lock into which one orphaned key fits; every time a human consciousness flares into being, the process creates a key. Your key might have appeared near you - in a hospital drawer by your mother’s bed, perhaps - or far away, at the bottom of a cardboard box halfway around the world. (There’s a strong implication that the farther away one’s key appears, the greater one’s destiny, but no concrete evidence to back the implication up.)