

Compound DreamsCompound Dreams Ta'Ko'Lu labors deep beneath the sunken city. Or rather, she should be. Her task is simple enough - ensure the colossal borer's internal pressure stayed within acceptable parameters. Her crew tears into earth, digging out impossible tunnels, in search of hidden ores and precious gems to return to their underground citadel. Her task is the simplest. Politely, quietly, when they were sure she was out of earshot, they would call her absent-minded and inattentive. The rudest would go so far as to say she was a danger to them all, not intentionally, of cCompound Dreams
....and before her came all the peoples of Creation, and knelt.
They set aside their petty squabbles in her name.
They acclaimed her with many shouts.
They prayed for her safety, and her weal.
Not one of them struck free her chains.
"To know the world..."
"...is to own it," she said.
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"I'll hang on to hope," she said, "until Time itself ends. But--"
"There's always an ending," said Time.
- Scripture of the Expectant Maiden
...whose skill was great enough to climb a whirlwind over water.
Arrows fell upon her, forcing her to descend.
But the Essence burning within her set the arrows afire.
She answered the arrows' flight with a storm of her own.
And the small maiden began
to climb the waterspout again.
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The maiden became a mother...
...and to one child she said, "I have many things to show you."
And to another, she said, "You may rest within my home and eat; no need to fly."
And to a third, she said, "How beautiful you are."
And as each heard her words and came to the center of her web...
...she ate them
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