Mud pits and lava pots cover the lava rock bed of Sore.
Once lava burned over its surface, but now it has cooled.
Nothing grows on the black, pocked rock.
Over time sand will rise, wind will blow green seeds onto Sore and it will become beautiful and fertile, perhaps.
Until then it is barren, still warm to the touch, its surfaces sharp.
Over time the sea comes to polish the onyx rocks.
Sea birds visit. Larger visitors view the land from passing ships.
Sometimes people from the ships tender out to it. They step ashore and wander.
They find stepping on the rocks uncomfortable even painful.
They become hungry and irritable.
"I want to go home!" a child cries and the parents agree.
They groan and remark upon their suffering (they know it is temporary, but still).
Soon the Ship of Suffering returns and carries them away.
Tiny black, red, and silver fish swim in the Sore sea pools leaping up in the sea spray. They tolerate the rock and warm temperatures. Black barnacles cling to the lava rock pools. Crabs scuttle over the surface. Black gulls land and pry them from the rocks eating the little bits of meat within.
About Emotion 365: Everyday a New Land of Emotion
"I want to go home!" a child cries and the parents agree.
They groan and remark upon their suffering (they know it is temporary, but still).
Soon the Ship of Suffering returns and carries them away.
Tiny black, red, and silver fish swim in the Sore sea pools leaping up in the sea spray. They tolerate the rock and warm temperatures. Black barnacles cling to the lava rock pools. Crabs scuttle over the surface. Black gulls land and pry them from the rocks eating the little bits of meat within.
About Emotion 365: Everyday a New Land of Emotion
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