The crater simmered with age old light. Leaned against the hull of his companion's ship, Cavo could feel the vibrations, the echoing howls of a world savaged more than a century ago, a mouth wrenched open in pain and still screaming into the void. Still screaming. Even now, even when countless...
He threw another bundle of firewood into the hungrily snapping flames, sending a plume of smoke and sparks tumbling into the air. His focus flitted between them as they danced ever higher into the sky, melding with the evening light and finally vanishing. Far away on a distant horizon, the Sun...
((OOC: Feel free to hop on in, but I'm going to limit this to two other writers. Don't want the thread to slow to a halt.
The earth was damp beneath his fingers. He felt it hugging the curve of his palm, rising into it, full of the quiet vigor of roots, insects and countless burrows. The life...