📘 Session 9 - Jungle Beyond the Portal

 The Mirror Helm - Varrick Songweave

[Intro]
We traced the wounds between the stars,
with compass, glass, and will.
One light bought from honest hands…
one door opened into teeth.

[Verse 1]

Aboard our ship of spell and sail,
we bent the void to see
the hidden scars, the portal trails,
the paths that ought not be.

A marble world, a lens of shade,
a needle twitching thin,
two signals burning out ahead,
and one was calling in.

So we crossed the black where merchants drift,
lanterns swinging low,
Captain Dunar weighed our words
where silver starlights glow.

High Jinks smiled with velvet claws,
Dino counted stone,
and for a globe of captive dawn,
we paid and made it home.

[Pre-Chorus]

Oh, light in a bottle,
oh, map in the mind,
we thought we were hunting
what wanted us blind.

[Chorus]

Through the gate, through the green,
where the jungle drinks the sky,
we ran from thunder on broken leaves
with a tyrant in its cry.

By the helm, by the glass,
where the mirror shadows gleam,
we tore one star from the other ship
and woke inside a dream.

Now the deck is gone beneath us,
now the void has no shore,
we are drifting by will alone
where the dead worlds roar.

[Verse 2]

The portal split like emerald fire,
the cavern breathed below,
roots like ropes and fungal moons
where no true sun could show.

Then came the king of ancient hunger,
bone and storm and breath,
Dino raised his steel-born guard
between the crew and death.

Its tail came down like judgment,
its teeth were white with war,
the jungle shook, the defender broke,
and still we reached the door.

Rigg found coin in a quiet corpse,
Leydrick held the flame,
Valen read the magic’s bones
and gave the cloak its name.

[Pre-Chorus 2]

Oh, gold in the mud,
oh, blood in the vines,
we stole what we could
from the mouth of time.

[Chorus]

Through the gate, through the green,
where the jungle drinks the sky,
we ran from thunder on broken leaves
with a tyrant in its cry.

By the helm, by the glass,
where the mirror shadows gleam,
we tore one star from the other ship
and woke inside a dream.

Now the deck is gone beneath us,
now the void has no shore,
we are drifting by will alone
where the dead worlds roar.

[Verse 3]

Then came the second signal,
cold as a funeral bell,
a silent twin of our own ship
where no living footstep fell.

No crew, no breath, no creaking rope,
no prayer, no helm, no guide,
only glass in a mirror crown
with the Astral dark inside.

Valen saw the warning there,
blue fire under skin,
Dino heard the cursed thing hum—
and pulled the mirror thin.

The disc came free, the ship came undone,
like smoke in a dying room,
and every plank and phantom sail
was swallowed by the gloom.

[Bridge – slower, ominous]

No anchor.
No heading.
No wind in the silver sea.

No captain.
No coastline.
No law but what we believe.

Mono watches silent,
Limbo waits with teeth,
mind flayers dream in the dark ahead,
and the Feywild whispers beneath.

[Breakdown / Chant]

Hold fast.
Think true.
Shape the road or it shapes you.

Hold fast.
Burn bright.
Steer by soul through the endless night.

No stars.
No ground.
Only thought where the lost are found.

No map.
No chain.
Only will against the plane.

[Final Chorus – bigger, layered vocals]

Through the gate, through the green,
where the jungle drinks the sky,
we ran from thunder on broken leaves
with a tyrant in its cry.

By the helm, by the glass,
where the mirror shadows gleam,
we tore one star from the other ship
and woke inside a dream.

Now the deck is gone beneath us,
now the void has no shore,
we are drifting by will alone
where the dead worlds roar.

Through the gate, through the green,
through the mirror, through the flame,
we are lost but not defeated,
and the void will learn our names.

[Outro – quiet, haunting]

The Driftglobe burns beside us,
a small sun in the deep.
The mirror helm is silent now…
but something heard it weep.