Monthly Archive for September, 2011

The Beholder of Nights

Story: 2011/09/15 at 23:59

Humans are creatures of wonder and little mystery when seen from a distance: The essence of a group can be easily shared with another in a small amount of solar revolutions, and their ways are peculiarly similar in spite of their different faces and the noises that they make.

There was a city in a land of Alû, a city of white marble and shiny tiles that stretched themselves in every road and every path that led to the city and that traversed its arteries. The city was simply known as Leu — and a city of greatness and movement it was since its first day — surrounded by mountains of obsidian horrors and skies swarming in ash. Many a traveler found the need to discover the beauty of the white stone with which Leu was constructed, and even in recent times did the eternal white manage to draw beauty and beings to the entrails of the city…

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Ainotic Nïr

Story: 2011/09/14 at 23:31

In the times before emotion there was a collective of lands that came to be in the realm of the existent. In the realm of the existent they awaited for the time when emotion came to be, and the time when they could writhe with feeling. In the plane of the existent there is a simple law that binds lands into a eternal stupor when emotion is missing from their chasms and fields.

In the times before time, in a place where emotion was appointed to be, a land came to the conclusion that there was no need to wait for emotion to come to it, and instead came to the conclusion that it could create emotions of its own. In the voidful space within the verse that came to be the home for many an emotion, a land decided to have what no other land dared have on its own before, and something no other land would consider getting on its own ever after that. Before there were ideas or notions with which the universe could be identified, a land on its own decided to be more than a space waiting to be filled with feeling…

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