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Earth/Blue
the now lifeless embers the coalblack charcoal crumbling to black microscopic silt mixing with the fine glowing white sand mixing with the dust of crustaceans
and fish bones and bird bones and mucilage and bits of drying seaweed and mixing with fine particles of crushed rocks then larger particles then miniature gravel then limestone then sandstone then finer pebbles
then darker gravel then the smallest tiny stones then larger stones like peas then stones that appear to be rocks then boulders as large as a man's head then rocks and caves that could be mountains
that carry mountains within mountains magma and hot fuming swirling gases at the inside that resembles how he feels in his heart as he stand on the very spot that burned that night

Archimage- the great magician
what changed pieces of wood and flashes of sulpher to a cloud of diaphanous miracles and sparks of stars in the midnight blue darkness of the sky that he stepped aside in as the vortex
pulled the earth from his feet that became the empty sky that this is all he has left now from the hand of the archimage the simple coal dust mixing with the river of sand that is all the time he has left
[his hand reaches down picking up a chalky bit of glossy coal that once glowed blistering with fire he touches this once and is never the same again]