Modern Day Old Creative Writing

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“Can anyone honestly say they know what truth can be found in something so simple and yet as powerful as a dream? It is through these mighty storms that visit the mind at night; that my life was flipped upside down. And when the truth was revealed to me, I found myself in a world I could never have imagined existed. But... it was there where I finally found a purpose, perhaps even my purpose.”

-Calin

Prologue: Memories of Old
There, in front of me, was a landscape unlike any I had ever seen before. Enormous mountains laid resting on the horizon, the height of which boggled my mind. Black boulders littered the flat plains that sat in the long shadows of those towering peaks.

A flash of light startled me as lightning thundered close by. …show more content…

The air was thick with the promise of rain to the dry earth; the land covered by late dusk’s darkening blanket, but it did nothing to hide the strength of the storm that was coming.

It only brought a need to make haste to my heart.

Around me, the dust layer was only broken by day old tracks; what kind could have been anyone’s guess. Yet, somehow the knowledge of something extremely dangerous that had passed here, flickered across my mind.

It was hidden from my view and there was too little time. I have come too far to fail now. I needed to be quick, before the storm erased the last of the tracks. Some of the tracks had the possible signs of a split claw on the right side, but these ones were already disturbed by the wind.

Like a shock, it finally occurred to me the strangeness of what was running across my thoughts. Notions and concepts, unlike anything that had entered my mind before, were available to me.

I tried to shake my head, to clear it, but nothing happened. My head didn’t even move a single muscle.

‘Strange…’

The word was meant to be out loud, but again nothing happened, not even my mouth moved.

This was different. Something wasn’t

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