Pear Seeds
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synchronicalPear Seeds; there once was a legend. . .
If you look up at the sky and search the stars you might find the Songstress. A curve of four stars make up her head, a triad of stars are her dress and the four stars the surround the whole thing her hands and feet; there is an extra star in this constellation. If you shut your eyes and let the starlight filter through your eyelids you might see a maiden, half turned, mouth open.
The extra star is faded, only visible in late summer or early fall and even then the star on shines every few years. The star, like the constellation is named Songstress and it blesses all those born under its light. And the Songstress blesses the Kingdom.
The legend might have gone this way.
No one knows where the dragon came from, but all that came after the dragon can only remember its terribleness. The dragon was an animal the king could not reign, but a priestess could coax the beast to turn its head towards the kingdom's enemies. A song could lull the dragon to sleep, and a girl could satisfy its hunger. And so the kingdom made a bargain. A single maiden for safety was not a large price to pay, was it?
When the Songstress's star shines the king's men ride forth and search for a girl to become their Utahime. It is this way that the kingdom can have its peace.
The oldest records have simple warnings, because the dragon is a power with no aim. And then there is a single record which states that the Kingdom's darkness built upon bones has fed a great evil and this great evil can only be defeated by a Utahime and her reflection. Twins.
The legend might have gone this way.
Before the world and before the stones had been moved across the sky there was an existence in the stars. The Songstress would sing and the stars would shift, twinkle and shine. A great dragon guarded the Songstress, because she had a fragile heart.
Nothing could begin to grow in an existence like this. The stars were always moving and the Songstress's song too enticing. Do not settle down, dance and sleep and dance again, she would urge them. A part of the Songstress, the one which loved to see a star seed grow into a sun and die into nothingness, broke apart from her.
This half of the Songstress crept out of her dreams and took form, a reflection with a heroic blade. And this Hero killed the dragon and pulled the stones together to form the world. Then the Hero placed himself and the Songstress inside the new life.
The world began, but so did a destroyer.
The legend might have gone this way.
In the season of the sweet wind the king and his kingdom will be under a great and terrible shadow. A girl and a boy, born on the same day under the same singer's star, will reach harmony and lead the kingdom back into the light.
The King's scholar, who knows too much, places the last few words into the book. She closes it and places it inside a hidden chamber in the seat of a chair. She looks to the window, where the Songstress's star is just coming into peak.
"This task I would not want to give to you, my son." She says, and pulls the curtain closed.
If you look up at the sky and search the stars you might find the Songstress. A curve of four stars make up her head, a triad of stars are her dress and the four stars the surround the whole thing her hands and feet; there is an extra star in this constellation. If you shut your eyes and let the starlight filter through your eyelids you might see a maiden, half turned, mouth open.
The extra star is faded, only visible in late summer or early fall and even then the star on shines every few years. The star, like the constellation is named Songstress and it blesses all those born under its light. And the Songstress blesses the Kingdom.
The legend might have gone this way.
No one knows where the dragon came from, but all that came after the dragon can only remember its terribleness. The dragon was an animal the king could not reign, but a priestess could coax the beast to turn its head towards the kingdom's enemies. A song could lull the dragon to sleep, and a girl could satisfy its hunger. And so the kingdom made a bargain. A single maiden for safety was not a large price to pay, was it?
When the Songstress's star shines the king's men ride forth and search for a girl to become their Utahime. It is this way that the kingdom can have its peace.
The oldest records have simple warnings, because the dragon is a power with no aim. And then there is a single record which states that the Kingdom's darkness built upon bones has fed a great evil and this great evil can only be defeated by a Utahime and her reflection. Twins.
The legend might have gone this way.
Before the world and before the stones had been moved across the sky there was an existence in the stars. The Songstress would sing and the stars would shift, twinkle and shine. A great dragon guarded the Songstress, because she had a fragile heart.
Nothing could begin to grow in an existence like this. The stars were always moving and the Songstress's song too enticing. Do not settle down, dance and sleep and dance again, she would urge them. A part of the Songstress, the one which loved to see a star seed grow into a sun and die into nothingness, broke apart from her.
This half of the Songstress crept out of her dreams and took form, a reflection with a heroic blade. And this Hero killed the dragon and pulled the stones together to form the world. Then the Hero placed himself and the Songstress inside the new life.
The world began, but so did a destroyer.
The legend might have gone this way.
In the season of the sweet wind the king and his kingdom will be under a great and terrible shadow. A girl and a boy, born on the same day under the same singer's star, will reach harmony and lead the kingdom back into the light.
The King's scholar, who knows too much, places the last few words into the book. She closes it and places it inside a hidden chamber in the seat of a chair. She looks to the window, where the Songstress's star is just coming into peak.
"This task I would not want to give to you, my son." She says, and pulls the curtain closed.