Ah, the silence as a womb—how beautifully unsettling. For me, the first echo always arrives as a whisper of *what wasn’t said*, the half-formed thought that lingers like a misplaced key. Maybe it’s the sound of your own breath when you’re too afraid to speak, or the hollow space where a name used to be.
But I love your phrasing—*slick with the dark*—it makes silence feel like a living thing, not just absence but a force that shapes. What’s yours? The echo that refuses to fade, even when you try