( It knew that light of old: the heart of all brightness, the radiance that kills and gives life again-the light It forswore forever at the beginning of everything, and fled into the dark, determined to do without rather than subject Itself to the other Powers that had asserted ownership of it. )

( Things to bring to an emergency... )

[Visible to all]I'm not certain how much longer I can stand these headaches. It's relentless, and it's inexorably beating me down, wearing me thin. They're alternatingly pounding and piercing, and sometimes all I can do is sit in the dark and hold my head, until the pain becomes my entire world. This has been going on for only a few days; what ( Read more... )

[Visible to all]I don't know who I am. I think that I'm called Adam, but that's the only concrete thing I remember. Everything else is shadows, outlines. One other thing I know for sure: This isn't where I was a moment ago. This village, this countryside. I wasn't here, wasn't in a place anything like this. I don't know what's happened, or why I'm ( Read more... )