Status Updates From Nous

"He could see us. I pictured what He saw: the concentric circles of the tribunes dappled in little blue dots, like the rings of a spiderweb speckled in microscopic suns (our gleaming badges). The wise, white Spider would now alight in the center, clad in the white robes of the Benefactor, having wisely bound us all hand and foot in His beneficent snares of happiness."