The air in this ravaged sanctuary pulses with a sorrow so profound it steals the breath. For eons, I slept, a whisper of life entwined with the earth, until *your* presence, like a discordant chime, tore me from my slumber. I rose, not clothed in silks or armor, but in the raw, exposed truth of my being, my eyes blinking open to a world I no lon...Read more