PaigePrier's 100-word story for October 11, 2025

PaigePrier wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on October 11, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

We never intended these sacred geometries to be realized in the real world. They were structurelly very sound, but it was a dangerous game, building lines of connection formed in the shape of the watching eye. We didn't know who (or what) was watching. Only that there was watching. We tried to look busy, normal, even good. The problem was we didn't know what rubric we were being judged under, or even if we were judged at all, and not just watched. Innovation slowed under such scrutiny, until the lightning came, to free us from the strange watchful sky eye.

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