all that was me, is gone

ludo Braved the forests, braved the stone Braved the icy winds and fire Braved and beat them on my own "You will not need to," Ludo vowed. As the shoreline grew closer the dark child with the blackened fingers remained standing in the waves, a lost and lonely figure in an otherwise strange and cheerful landscape. "Think on what you did today, sweetling. If you can stomach such business, then you may find yet more purpose than you ever imagined you might have." The deity smiled then, a thin, wry thing that did not reach its eyes, and it waited in the water as the hawk flew back towards life and light and civilisation. ~FIN