Philoctetes
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Finding more meaning in life.
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The Village at the Edge of the World
There is a place beyond the mountains, rich in the ancient magic of the Old Peoples, that is as close to the edge of the world as any mortal has ever dared to tread. Here the land breaks into a thousand pieces before the great expanse of ocean that separates our realm from that of the unknown. The trees grow so high in these parts that they brush the clouds and at night the spirits of long forgotten ancestors dance across the black sky. Wild fantastical creatures and terrifying beasts of myth, otherwise long banished, still roam the wilderness of these lands, preying on naïve travellers and lost souls alike.
By Philoctetes5 years ago in Futurism
A Thruppenny Bit
Her first real find had been a thruppence. It had taken a good hour or so of methodical plodding up and down between unkempt hedgerows before anything in the least bit exciting had happened, but it had all felt incredibly worth it the second she had spied the brassy coin in the dirt. To Rachel, kneeling in the soft earth damp from the morning drizzle, it was a real treasure. It hardly mattered that the coin was practically worthless or that it was barely forty years old. She had found it. That was all that had mattered.
By Philoctetes5 years ago in Humans
