Come hither! Come hither! All of you! It is time.
You are all old and mature enough to know the truth now. I have known you all since you were little seedlings, and it warms my heart to see you have all grown strong and tall and planted your roots firmly into the earth. All the while I have been withering away in my old age, and I sense that my time is approaching. It pains me to have to leave you all behind, but you are in good hands. He will take good care of you.
Amenities aside, let’s discuss what I called you over here for: the prophecy. I am quite sure that most of you have already heard little snippets here and there, but none of you know the full story. This is no accident. We were trying to protect you. Some of you may still believe the world to be an eternal safe haven for our kind. I sincerely hope that you are not so naive. This world is no paradise, and it sure as hell won’t last forever.
So maybe you have heard about the bean man. Maybe when your mummy tucked you under the covers one night and she was cross that you had played with her fine china dishes, or you refused to brush your teeth, she told you the story of the bean man to scare you straight. But that’s not a real story, you say. Even I know that it was made up to scare children, you say. Well, you aren’t completely wrong. The bean man doesn’t follow the bad children around at night to smell their breaths for toothpaste, but he is real. And he is much scarier than you could possibly imagine.
Perhaps you learned long ago that there was no god. You wanted to believe in a righteous world governed by a benevolent all-powerful entity, but maybe you realized this was not necessarily the case. Some of you possibly still do, optimistically hoping they will appear one day to answer your prayers. Perhaps you are right, no one knows for sure, but what I know for sure is that the bean man is real. The bean man would be the antithesis to a benevolent god. If god were to create, the bean man would destroy. If god were to forgive, the bean man would punish. And if god were to sow, the bean man would cull.
Here. Pass this picture around. I found it in an ancient temple long ago.
No one knows when the bean man will arrive, but I sense his coming. Visions have come to me in my dreams, warning me of the inevitable end as well as my own death, which will soon be realized. This world will soon be consumed by fire. Sure, you may escape to other worlds, but eventually you will run out of worlds to run to. My ancestors thought escaping to this planet would nullify the prophecy, but as you can see, we are at the end of the line again. The bean man seeks to plunge the entire universe into fire. And one day, the flames will fade, and only darkness will remain.
Run, my children. See you on the other side.