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Eyes and Ears

Time exists here, but time rarely progressed.  Creatures were born and died, but they knew not disease or old age.  They simply were.  Not at peace, but at balance. The spark of something different happened once.  A creature unlike the others, but like those that came long ago, back when time could progress, when terrain changes and structures rise and were torn down. This creature came to the small village where a group lived in their eternal balance, and brought with it during the night the monsters.  The monsters were part of the balance too, but it had been a very long time since they had seen these, and felt the need to run from them else they become monsters too. The light drove the monsters away, as well as the iron guardians that roamed the village.  It would be okay. The one without eternity left the village and raised a structure at the top of the hill that overlooked the village.  And with that building, a new type of eternal creature appear...
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The Watching Woods

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The first time I laid eyes on the flowers, the forest spread out before me, the breeze in my hair, I knew it would be my home.  I could smell the fragrance of roses and lilacs, the spring carried the scent through the valley and up to the blooming cliffs. It all hid a dark secret.  Below lay a cursed land, once at war with itself. But over the months I was able to unravel it.  Bring it to light, pull out the color, turn it to something different, wonderful, and perhaps a little tragic. And the world bloomed, thrived, and honestly didn't need me any more. I felt sad for it, leaving everything behind, but the fall came to move to the next world, a new beginning and perhaps a new curse, a new monster, or something mysterious. I set foot in the new world, with a new outfit, a new perspective and climbed that cliff face, looking for the flowers I had before.  The meadows were beautiful here, the birch forests lush with yellow. I built a small home on the edge of the ocean...
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