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 glass set out before himself on the table, as he thinks.
Life has been hectic in so ...
2022-04-09 18:55:26 +0000 UTC
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A 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 the hobgoblins.
Burch takes a step back, lifting her hands and I watch in fascination...
2022-04-09 16:51:24 +0000 UTC
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There 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 come over the world.
Burch and I have escaped the hobgoblins and we have walked in...
2022-04-08 16:56:53 +0000 UTC
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I am peaceful.
[Sunflower]
You bask in the light of the sun
+ 1 EXP
EXP: 103/310
EXP (Burch): 113/160
Wind blows across the rocky landscape, toward...
2022-04-07 10:52:18 +0000 UTC
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The 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
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The 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.
“Was it one of the customers?” asks Rhine, standing with crossed arms and leaning back against ...
2022-04-06 13:09:14 +0000 UTC
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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.
The landscape here is akin to the landscape from our side of the world, but it is different...
2022-04-06 07:56:28 +0000 UTC
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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.
When something releases negative energies from themselves, it is easy to see.
Th...
2022-04-05 15:56:50 +0000 UTC
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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 heavy.
Today, the sun is bright. Today, the wind is slow and gentle. Today, the water ...
2022-04-04 18:25:43 +0000 UTC
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My 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 I feel as if we have grown to know each other, despite not knowing each other. I am a sunflower, she...
2022-04-03 12:10:30 +0000 UTC
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A 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 sounds of clinking glassware and rustling metal plates accompanies their discussions. The room, the...
2022-04-02 17:32:45 +0000 UTC
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I 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 sense?
I do not understand why the not-birds were so intent on finding my friend, ...
2022-04-01 17:52:16 +0000 UTC
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My 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 rather, towards the sun.
- Perhaps she is confused today? Perhaps she thinks that I...
2022-03-31 17:16:24 +0000 UTC
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“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 it.
“It could be worse,” replies Sockel. Hineni exhales. That sounds like relie...
2022-03-30 12:55:13 +0000 UTC
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I 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-water.
This is not something that many sunflowers can boast of.
Tho...
2022-03-30 08:05:00 +0000 UTC
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Powerful.
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 great-water. Her feet, bare, slip through the soft sands beneath herself.
Behind us, t...
2022-03-29 15:29:02 +0000 UTC
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It 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 house. If I have understood correctly, this is a nest, created by her ilk.
That wo...
2022-03-29 11:57:10 +0000 UTC
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I 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 of big rocks that we hide inside of. A shelter.
After much drinking and much walking...
2022-03-28 13:04:33 +0000 UTC
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I 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.
Atop the meadow is a thing. It is a thing that I do not understand.
...
2022-03-28 10:56:11 +0000 UTC
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It 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.
She crunches.
I turn my gaze, looking at my wormy-friend. She is clean ...
2022-03-27 11:50:00 +0000 UTC
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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 of glass is something obscured. Shadows move as people prepare their evening meals. Sounds of laught...
2022-03-27 09:12:57 +0000 UTC
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Hineni 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, much larger.
But with the expansions happening throughout the city, modernizations, n...
2022-03-26 19:25:36 +0000 UTC
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A 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 beautiful flowers. I am flattered. Thank you, bee. But I am not ready yet.
Besides, you a...
2022-03-26 10:32:05 +0000 UTC
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It 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 before the fire, pulled into a ball.
I have determined, after much deliberation, t...
2022-03-26 07:41:30 +0000 UTC
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I 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 unfortunate.
However, I find warmth reaching me from somewhere else.
F...
2022-03-26 07:23:48 +0000 UTC
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Hello. 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 want to look at the sun together with me?
- I am a sunflower.
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2022-03-26 07:09:44 +0000 UTC
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A 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, sprinting across the open field in excitement at seeing her first real landmark.
Somethi...
2022-03-26 07:02:39 +0000 UTC
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Her 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 crashed into her the exact moment that she had found the exit of the grotto, the moment that a gust of fr...
2022-03-25 08:39:47 +0000 UTC
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[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 anymore; so I opened a shoe-store instead!]
Mirabelle’s Boots - The crue...
2022-03-24 14:38:48 +0000 UTC
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Sickly 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 top to bottom, flowing along the lengths of the spines of many different books, each of many different...
2022-03-23 20:20:24 +0000 UTC
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