LadyEru

Part One Soul I watched the light fade. I watched it sink into a new west, watched as it changed shape and vanish behind new earth, and watched it die a new death. I fought the urge to pray, knowing the Gods would hear. Below me, growing like moss out of the stone and soil, was a village. Small. Hardly more than a scattering of fire-lit doorways. Stars strewn across a deepening gray. I did not know why the sight of it made me feel so afraid. The village smelled foreign, felt foreign. An intrusion upon the senses, unwelcome. Standing above and beyond it, exposed to the full bite of the wind, I watched the small valley darken as night se