Daze

Lea stands there, transfixed. She can't move. She has to move. She moves toward the young man. She gets close, and his voice cuts through her, piercing the fog in her mind. "Do not seek the truth," he says. "You will die."

“You are the snake,” she realizes.

The young man, the snake, says to Lea, “Fear not knowledge. You shall escape the great lie.”