Starlily’s Descent into the World
Starlily was a beautiful and kind maiden of the star people. She lived in her star in the skies and shone her light upon the worlds. But she was young and restless and sometimes felt very lonely, so she decided to go down onto a planet to learn of earthbound life and talk with the trees and the birds and the people who lived there. There were two tribes of people living on the peninsula where she landed, the stone people and the flower people. The stone people were big in stature, but very gentle and dreamy, they loved the winds and the sea and the open vistas and they built their homes into the living rock at the craggy hills near the sea. The flower people were tiny in size and they lived in the thick undergrowth of the forest, rich in smells and lush flowers, under which they found shelter and thought of as their homes. They were joyful and bright and loved the earth and colourful things. The two tribes lived in harmony with each other and the world for as long as the oldest tree in the forest could remember, which is to say for a long long long time. Read the rest of this entry »
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