A Decent Land: The Eye’s Mantra

An introductory pamphlet from the Lords of the Eye, addressed to the youth.

Lee David Tyrrell
8 min readFeb 2, 2023
The Eye (by Lee David Tyrrell)

We see The Eye in our dreams, before its existence is even revealed to us. And so, we rest assured — in faith — by our own experience. Its pupil crimson, like our royal family’s castle (no coincidence), The Eye is ever locked in observation. Beneath it — twelve times a day — monks and Lords of the oculus do gather, on their knees, to hear the prophecy.

A Decent Land will be our home. Home will be A Decent Land.

The Eye — our Eye — is one of three, brought with the fleet when The Cataclysm came. Its brother, a whitened chrome monstrosity, sailed to myths of a trio of suns, guided on the bloated backs of arks devoted to Trinarism. The final Eye, Blind, was destroyed by a solar flare; although it rarely spake, or helped us on our journey.

Trinarism postulates the only viable system to support us would be furnished with a triplet in the firmament. Highly cynical, Blind instead suggested suicide (as a logical conclusion to our vagrancy). The Eye — who, at the time, was known as Right Side — is not so rigid in its thinking; so, we followed it.

No one paid heed to the useless cries of Blind, and Left Side lost its credibility and stature. We were growing impatient as we…

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Lee David Tyrrell

Fiction writer, mostly attracted to sci-fi and strange, experimental tangents. I’ve also worked as a music journalist for Clash, eGigs, eFestivals & C64 Audio.