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The delicate flowers atop the mountainswaying under the sunlit breeze Commerce and activity of a civilizationbuzzing at the frequency of commonality The sparkling river speaks its motionmystically winding and exuberantly flowing Another day at the public house, opening upto the unknown callers of fortune and circumstance The raising of mighty voices in hope and resilience,holding […]
Carrying very little, she walked. In this now, she wasn’t worrying about where to go, or when, or who saw her, or how they saw her. Some of the world was intact. Some of the world had been destroyed and changed forever. She felt the same about herself. Soleil’s mind kept returning to the subject […]
“The contact digest for today is vivid and full of vitality.” Mireille had been allowed to peruse incoming memorandums for the past year, and had used her access today while processing the internal upheaval. “Is it true that you met Ravl Pliskin? There was a hint.” Soleil nodded. “It was a fairly smooth dealing. I […]
“So. Dragon Food.” Mireille broached this intrinsically unusual topic with matter-of-fact practicality. “You found Dragon Food?” “As a first Kao-Sidhe to consciously register, he is a personable one. Of course, I may have seen one or many, and succumbed to a pervasive cultural conditioning to erase erratic phenomena – which is what they are. Whether […]
“I may not need to tell you that visions of today’s battle with our father are still alive behind my eyes.” Soleil blinked slowly, while they both knelt facing an invisible audience. “It’s as repugnant to me as it may be to others. That was not my dream of how things should go, in life.” […]
The multi-level ceremonial dais was set up in the Reception Hall. It was an impromptu prep mockup for an imminent ceremony with unspecified parameters. Soleil had not exactly been announced. They rested in the breath-holding phase for media explanation of the new change in the ruling family. People weren’t all sure what had happened. The […]
The breeze went still, the scent of an indefinable flower floating from the ground far below. Sword balancing out at an angle, as though it may yet come to life and hurt her too in this moment alone, Soleil walked over to the scroll on the floor. The pen lay near it, and she picked […]
Acamar replied in reflection. I know the gatebetween places;I am the gatebetween one stateand the next,in some senses.A place is not likeanother place, andstates of being differcharacteristically.The betweenis not either.Something happens,and another state ofbeing is reached.Sometimes there is asomewhere or a something.We may not know whatit is, though it may bedefined to us by wondering.There […]
As though knowing things she didn’t know, knowledge she couldn’t understand but could sense, it came out in a stream of consciousness. This may have been coping, or coming to terms – feeling without letting it overwhelm. She spoke from the universe to her soul, to another and to everything. She explained herself and explained […]
Primal Spiral 