LOG#025 by Auriscenes published on 2021-03-03T23:53:53Z Worlds often keep memories of the people that once inhabited them. Echoes of deeds long forgotten cling to the air, infusing it with the essence of those bygone caretakers. The canyon I visit today was once a wasteland whose arid climate was too hostile for any but the hardiest of vegetation to grow. Since the more inhabitable regions nearby were not overcrowded, this territory was mostly overlooked. It was said that the very wind itself mourned whenever it blew, howling in loneliness amongst the warm tones of the sandstone that formed its cradle. One day, four brothers set out to find a new home. Upon finding the canyon they neither heard the sadness in the wind nor felt the dryness in their throats. Instead they marveled at the rock walls' beautiful striations and the windswept landscape's dramatic curves. Here was home, they decided. The first brother, Water, redirected the smallest portion of his homeland's river to flow through the canyon. The life-giving substance soon flowed smoothly through the land in a lively dark line. The second brother, Earth, brought some clay and mixed it with the sand, shaping it to capture the moisture until it was saturated. The third brother, Seed, bore kernels and pips to bury in the new soil. Sprouts quickly began to peek out of the ground. The fourth brother, Time, sat down every morning and sang lively tunes from their homeland to the plants, enriching them with his melodies and carbon dioxide. The siblings never gave up on the land, tirelessly enduring hardship. Before long the canyon was transformed, renewed. Even the wind seemed to be reborn. As the years passed, the brothers moved on from this existence one by one. Their memory lived on in the land. With each passing the wind changed, forming a new harmony. Once all four had passed, the zephyr's song was complete. It honored the brothers that had given it life again. To this day its memorial can be heard as it rushes through the renewed land. Like & follow to be notified when new worlds are found! Genre Storytelling