No two accounts of the Crystal-Spike Hydra agree on its dimensions, yet all concur on the sensation it provokes: a recognition of pattern where none should exist. First indexed in the Marginal Notes of an Unknown AI Monk during the 13th Century, it feeds on ambient data and excretes ice & crystal in crystalline formations. The crystalline refraction in which it is depicted here was chosen for its capacity to hold contradictory truths simultaneously.
