The main characters, Grease and Hair, embody the human need for closeness and protection even in the darkest conditions.
To the pipe's inhabitants, SHE is a deity who brings death. Translucent crystals fall through the drain, glowing in the dark like distant stars.
What is household chemistry to a human is, to them, an apocalypse that changes the structure of reality.
The crystals dissolve Grease's form, turning it into foam ("It burns, my love...").
Hot water washes away the remnants of consciousness, carrying them toward global synthesis.
He watches the heroes suffer from high on the pipe wall. He is the only one who knows this world's teleological purpose.
Dissolution is not the end, but the release of life's basic elements for the future.
While drama unfolds in the pipes, the Woman lives her ordinary life, unaware that her household gestures are acts of creation and destruction in a microworld.
Her every movement echoes the flow of life through the pipes. We are all parts of one vast urban circulatory system.
Her image is the key to the final rebirth in the synthesis lab.
In the incubator of a genetic laboratory, SHE takes shape: the same woman who poured the crystals.
Paradox: The Destroyer and the Creation are the same face. The sacrifice of Hair and Grease allowed Her to be born again in the world of the future.
