Emotion 365: The Land of the Inanimate

Everything and everyone within Inanimate plods. Do they move at all? In the center of the land, filling most of it, is a round flat lake. The fish within do not jump, but glide back and forth in its waters. The clouds hang low, the skies windless. Rain falls as mists. People live on the lake shore in villages among the reeds. They weave their roofs out of grasses. They weave grass mats and hats. They drink tea and sit and watch the Inanimate Lake. They burn grass logs in their fireplaces to heat the lake water and make their tea. Hippos lumber within the lake. Alligators walk through the mucky water. Tame capybara roam the land. They curl up indoors on grass mats by the hearths which burn grass fires. The people wear thickly woven tunics and large socks. Few visit Inanimate, although it is said to be a good place to come to cure illness or to die slowly of a lingering illness weaving grass and warmed by grass fires.

It is one of the few places Miss Emeline Traveler has yet to visit.

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