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Remains of Rain
Alone in a Daydream
The Coming of Dragons
On a Riverbank
Embers in the Storm
Snow All Around
Restless Winds
Beyond the Sea
The Tides of Night
Of Fishes Large and Small
Elusive Elements
The Tree on a Cliff
Inside the Beehive
Across the Meadow
Shattered Ice
Wings of a Butterfly
Amidst the Echoes
A Singing Seashell
Stars Falling at Dusk
Image on Water
The Flames of Change
A Refreshing Swim
Crescent Moon
Flowing Still
After the Game of Names
Transitory Tenacious
The Forest of the World
Down to the Skies Above
Listening to Silence
A Day with Dolphins
Dominion of Gray Swans
Touch of Twilight
The Fading of All Lights
A very long time ago, when the world was still young and closer to the stars, whose light was strong and whose song could be heard in the deepest of caves, when the waters were still warm and not yet quelled, washing the formless shores, when many things were in their infancy, only to become great ages later – at the inception of all there came the dragons.
They came from beyond the borders of the world, where they had been traveling long and far, through regions of the void filled with nothing but ever-fading light and cold and emptiness, where time itself was running at once forward and backward, and space was incomplete and inconstant.
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The water rat brooded about this, turning the idea different ways in its rat mind, shaping and reshaping it. It did not fit. And twittering of the birds was of no help either, distracting the water rat’s wandering attention.
«Rules notwithstanding, there is reality,» protested the water rat.
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