Chapter 9: Chapter 9: Our journey will be long and it will hurt a lot. But it will be good

Powerful.

 

The silence, it is powerful.

 

My friend walks. She treads along the edge of the water, moving along the shoreline, as we have no way to cross over its breadth. Her feet, bare, slip through the soft sands beneath herself.

 

Behind us, towards the east, the wildfires of the drylands are still visible, the plumes of smoke growing larger and larger by the day, as the hungering flame spreads, consuming what is left of the world that we have left behind ourselves.

 

- It will be good.

 

In a time further away from now, the soil there will be rich and full of satiating ash. Many things will grow and thrive, thanks to the bounty offered by the things that have and will yet die in the blaze.

 

We are not among them. We are here, where it is silent.

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The great-water is still, it does not move.

 

The wind is still, it does not creep or blow or shift the hairs of her head.

 

There are no creatures, no birds, no animals, no movements in the world, apart from our own.

 

The only sound that I hear is the sound of soft sand, pressing between her toes and the rustle of my own leaves, as I adjust to always face the sun in the east, which is often obscured by a cloud of rising smoke.

 

It is rather troublesome.

 

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