Weaponsmith - Chapter 57
The lanterns have grown dark. The tables are empty. It is late and the others are still asleep or off doing their own things.
Hineni sits alone downstairs at his booth, a crystal g...
2022-04-09 18:55:26 +0000 UTC View Post
The lanterns have grown dark. The tables are empty. It is late and the others are still asleep or off doing their own things.
Hineni sits alone downstairs at his booth, a crystal g...
2022-04-09 18:55:26 +0000 UTC View PostA most curious creature stands before us, resting beneath the cooling shadow of a tree.
A pair of beady, black eyes stare our way. They remind me of the birds, they remind me of th...
2022-04-09 16:51:24 +0000 UTC View PostThere is beauty in the simplicity of life.
Grass, green, blows in the soft wind, carrying with itself a soothing, dry warmth.
It hints of a summer, mellow, to soon...
2022-04-08 16:56:53 +0000 UTC View PostI am peaceful.
You bask in the light of the sun
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2022-04-07 10:52:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe frogs are getting bolder. A war has started. Things are going to get rougher from here on out.
Do we prepare for the future by striking first and hard, or by beefing up our defenses?
2022-04-06 13:12:18 +0000 UTC View PostThe five of them stand together in the restaurant downstairs. Hineni had waited until night fell and everyone else left, so that they could talk about this without being overheard.
Tell me, Burch, why is it that you seek paradise?
We wander, traveling across the meadows and through the forests and over the hills of the world, west of the great-water.
Negative energies move through the soil, they move through the air, they move through the vibrations, spreading out from each and every step that a creature, infected by them, takes.
Let go.
You must let go of these things.
This additional burden is a thing that one must not carry for too long.
After all, it must be so very hea...
2022-04-04 18:25:43 +0000 UTC View PostMy friend is a most curious creature.
I can not say what it is exactly, that she is.
- A bird, a bee, a sunflower or whatever else, have you.
But ...
2022-04-03 12:10:30 +0000 UTC View PostA month and three days have come to pass since then.
Muffled voices ring around the restaurant. The booths are full of people, who are talking in hurried, hushed conversations. The...
2022-04-02 17:32:45 +0000 UTC View PostI do not understand many things.
I do not understand why paradise is a place that we must go to.
- Why is every place not simply paradise? Would that not make more...
2022-04-01 17:52:16 +0000 UTC View PostMy friend is staring at me.
In a way, I have grown accustomed to her doing so. In another way, I find it bothersome.
I have taught her to gaze not towards me, but ...
2022-03-31 17:16:24 +0000 UTC View Post“And?” asks Hineni, sitting there somewhat nervously.
Sockel looks up his way, lifting her eyes from the sheet of paper for a moment, before turning her gaze back down towards ...
2022-03-30 12:55:13 +0000 UTC View PostI have been to the wide grasslands and I have been upon the vast shore.
I have been to the deep forest, as I have been in the dark cave.
Now, I am upon the great-w...
2022-03-30 08:05:00 +0000 UTC View PostPowerful.
The silence, it is powerful.
My friend walks, she treads along the side of the water, moving along the shoreline, as we have no way to cross over the gre...
2022-03-29 15:29:02 +0000 UTC View PostIt is a ‘house’.
I know this, because she whispered the name of the entity to me as we approached.
Now, my fox-friend digs and rummages through the guts of the...
2022-03-29 11:57:10 +0000 UTC View PostI am at peace.
My friend is at peace.
We are at peace.
Water drips, dropping noisily to the ground as it slides along the face of the collection o...
2022-03-28 13:04:33 +0000 UTC View PostI do not understand what we are looking at.
My beautiful butterfly-friend and I stand in a thicket and stare out and across a lush meadow.
It is green. It is good....
2022-03-28 10:56:11 +0000 UTC View PostIt is peaceful.
I sit between the rocks, my roots buried into what little loose soil there is to be found here.
It is an unusual place for a sunflower to be.
Midnight moonlight silhouettes her form as she flies over the darkened city, the gaps between the many houses are lit aglow by the warmth releasing from the thousands of windows. Behind each sheet ...
2022-03-27 09:12:57 +0000 UTC View PostHineni stands out in the big-now-small forest, staring up at the barren, snow-laden branches of the many trees around himself.
Just a generation ago, this forest was much, much, mu...
2022-03-26 19:25:36 +0000 UTC View PostA suitor approaches me as we walk.
I lift my petals, hiding my face from it as it comes to me. A bee.
The fat bee buzzes noisily, scouring the landscape for beauti...
2022-03-26 10:32:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt is nighttime once again.
My friend of questionable attractiveness rests off to the side, her two stumpy, poky upper branches are wrapped around her lower limbs as she lays there...
2022-03-26 07:41:30 +0000 UTC View PostI am a sunflower.
Isn’t that nice?
But the sun itself has gone to sleep now and its soft warmth has left the world for another day.
That is unfo...
2022-03-26 07:23:48 +0000 UTC View PostHello. I am a sunflower.
Are you a sunflower too?
Well, it doesn't really matter. Today is a calm day. The wind is warm. I do not know why I am alive, but do you w...
2022-03-26 07:09:44 +0000 UTC View PostA tree.
It’s the first tree that she’s seen. It’s there, off in the distance. Mirabelle stares at it, her heart feeling lighter for a moment. The fairy runs towards it, sprin...
2022-03-26 07:02:39 +0000 UTC View PostHer stomach growls.
Mirabelle lays on her back. Her incredible, almost other-worldly desire for revenge has been dampened with ludicrous speed by this new sensation which had crash...
2022-03-25 08:39:47 +0000 UTC View Post[I was reborn after being murdered because of the true wish that I made for revenge against all human-peoples, but now I’m alive again and I actually just kind of don’t want to do that anym...
2022-03-24 14:38:48 +0000 UTC View PostSickly moonlight shines in through the windows of the library, covering the dark toned wood and the drab, carpeted floors with a tinge of blue. The soft, cold glow radiates around the room, from to...
2022-03-23 20:20:24 +0000 UTC View Post