“The Day the Earth Spoke”
by SONOFPOLLUX

Before he was SONOFPOLLUX—the storm in the mic, the voice that cracked satellites—he was just a boy with bare feet, brown hair, and soil under his fingernails.

The bush behind his nanna’s house was quiet, but alive. Every rustle meant something. Every ant had purpose. He liked that. While the world above argued and buzzed and broke, the ants below just worked. No cameras. No noise. Just knowing.

He’d crouch near the anthill in the dry grass each afternoon, feeding them crumbs, not because he was bored—but because he respected them. They never took more than they needed. Never bragged. Never forgot where they were going.

One day, he leaned in close—closer than ever—and heard it. Not voices. Not music. Something older. Something deeper. A hum. A rhythm under the dirt, in the roots. The earth speaking in patterns no school could teach.

It didn’t tell him who he was.
It reminded him who he’d always been.

That day, the ants kept marching. The sun kept burning. And the boy who would become SONOFPOLLUX didn’t speak a word.

He just listened.