Friday, October 24, 2008

Another step in the correct direction

I liked this character so I decided to continue his story, who knows I may make this a recurring character.

Once again he dreamt of the maze, an endless maze with no entrance or exit and lined with all the books he could ever read. The man wandered the twisting passages reading books until he awoke. Outside of his cave the storm still raged however the people were silent. He smiled, closed his eyes and fell back into the maze of his mind. He found the book he was reading about storms, the page was still marked from when he threw it across the hall in anger over the fact that he couldn’t understand it, this, like all things, had been overcome. He reopened the book to where he had stopped reading and round where the passage about calming the storm began. He began to read and slowly the area around him became a forest clearing for him to practice this new ability. Over and over he tried and failed, over and over he was struck by a bolt of lightning or consumed by a forest fire until eventually he calmed the storm. Silence greeted him as he awoke, when he stepped out from his cave he saw the destruction his storm had brought to the area. His smile faded as he looked ahead and saw most of the village gone, he would morn their passing once he had eaten his morning meal.

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