Writing

Out of a portal as dark as night steps form from yet darker hue. Pausing passive, putrid plight; Death immortal inspects the view. African animals all alarmed; bonobos bellow, crocodiles chatter. “Death walking with us; flee for your lives!” Serval skitter scatter. Death sighed solemnly, he had not intended to cause such a riot. He preferred to rest in peace plus his clients calmed in the quiet.

From void they tugged the starlight, whirled water wet with silted sand. Blended both brutality and beauty, let love form finger, framing hand. Believed breathed life upon me, with wind whisper words in ear.

How now to begin, whither where, when, why, what for? To tell tall tales of starlight, Forthright Empire went to war. Erased from space the Dwald, left limbs cut, Collective dead.