A new story has found a beginning. I am hard at work searching for a middle and an end. Meanwhile, here is the beginning that the new story has found.

Ember

Introduction

Now I am old. The few years
I spent as the Earthling girl Reeb to begin my journey fade from memory. My
life here as Plumly with sky blue skin in Cloud Castle City on the world of
Boad surrounds me. Craggers and hollowites bustle about. The City flies here
and there on my whim. Enough of that. I feel a need to tell one more story of
my beloved adopted world and to send it as a gift to you people of Earth. It is
a simple tale about everything. It began some time ago near Sadlar’s Garden in
Clover on the banks of the Greenwilla River. There Ember appeared.

Plumly

Royal Chronicler of Boad,
All Fidd and Leee Combined

Chapter
1

Strange
Visitor

Protected by hills of
Clover, Sadlar’s Garden grows on the banks of the Greenwilla River.

green the hills

green the river

a cornucopia of colors the
garden

rainbows

Sadlar, oh so very huge,
oh so very old, immortal, shaggy, a pair of tusks thrusting up from the lower
jaw, 8 short horns gathered in concert on top of the head, great round yellow
goggle eyes, tapped a talon on a tusk, gazed at the river, and said, “Sad.”

“sad” meaning “do i see
what i see?”

“sad” meaning “i see
something strange.”

It floated shoreward. The
strange thing. It gathered to shape. Sadlar stared. It stood. Clad in ash gray
flitters, it nodded at Sadlar. Black its tangle of hair. Sadlar saw the face
and hands pulse, changing color in slow rhythm.

yellow

orange

red

purple

blue

green

The eyes ever glowed a
soft orange. Like an ember.

“Sad sadness Sadlar,”
said Sadlar.

“sad sadness sadlar”
meaning “i am sadlar. welcome to my garden.”

“I am Ember,” said the
strange visitor.

Ember smiled. Pulse the
colors.