Love used to be a sprawling land of power with rolling hills and flowing rivers. Now visitors come to swim in the deep pools of Love.
The denizen farmers begin every morning with a barefoot walking meditation upon the soil.
Their worn hands plant seeds in soft soil and fields of edible flowers bloom.
Love blooms and blooms: pansies, peonies, and poppies. Flocks of peafowl walk through the flowers. Doves coo. Birds dip and soar. Rabbits burrow. Deer step lightly over the land.
A crane waits. An ibis lifts her head.
The land recedes at the edges. Flowers wilt.
A passing airship sees dark edges curl on the border where Love dries out because it never rains enough.
“Its not as green as it once was,” says the Guide. “Love too needs love.”
The floating cloud of Kindness rains warm rainbow-colored water which feeds the flower fields of Love. Birds nest in Kindness and fly around it. The great white cranes and the red ibises sleep here.
Visitors to Love carry gifts of flowers and fallen feathers home.
Hikers and wanderers visit Love. The run naked through the flowers and dive into the pools where they transform for a time into nymphs.
But no-one visits Kindness. Instead, the cloud floats to them. The warm rains turn fur and hair rainbow-colored and cures hunger and sadness.
"Follow your heart and continue your journey," says the Great Crane of Kindness.
“Its not as green as it once was,” says the Guide. “Love too needs love.”
The floating cloud of Kindness rains warm rainbow-colored water which feeds the flower fields of Love. Birds nest in Kindness and fly around it. The great white cranes and the red ibises sleep here.
Visitors to Love carry gifts of flowers and fallen feathers home.
Hikers and wanderers visit Love. The run naked through the flowers and dive into the pools where they transform for a time into nymphs.
But no-one visits Kindness. Instead, the cloud floats to them. The warm rains turn fur and hair rainbow-colored and cures hunger and sadness.
"Follow your heart and continue your journey," says the Great Crane of Kindness.
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