“When it’s still – when it’s the cellar of a house, or a ring of mushrooms in a forest or a gun emplacement outside Offenburg – it’s called one of two things. If it remains static and unchanging then we call it a despair. If it seeks to extend its influence then it is a malignancy. Or as the Director puts it – a despair will suck you in, but a malignancy is coming to get you.”
