wake up, child! pay attention!

Shit happens to everybody. Unbelievably awful shit happens to us on the reg. But once it happens, it’s yours. Different rules for before and after.

-Jacob Clifton, TWoP Caprica recap

When we lose someone, the Tauron ritual reminds us, we go with them into the Underworld. The job — which we have to do, in their honor — becomes finding our way home again. That’s what Orpheus & Eurydice is about… And in every case, the message is the same: “Wake up.” Grief and fear are a dream from which you can eventually wake, if you stay strong.

-ibid.

“Can you not see that little light up there?”

“Where?”

“There!”

“Where?“

-Kate Bush, “Waking the Witch”

“Get OUT Of the waves! Get OUT of the water!”

-ibid.