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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]