In the beginning, before light, sound, color and beauty there was only an empty void that made up the universe. It was a dark, desolate place, empty and almost completely devoid of life. Almost. For there was one being living in the dark nothingness, one Solful creature. Destined to be alone for all eternity, the creature would have wished for more, for a purpose of its existence, but alas, surrounded by nothing but memories filled with darkness, the creature simply could not imagine anything more than the hollow empty void in which it dwelled.
Suddenly, the creature saw. A vision. After such a long time of living in the darkness, the creature was confused as it struggled to comprehend the mere concept of light and color, of the sounds it heard and the shapes it saw. Swatches of green flecked with tiny colorful shapes stretched out before it, and tall brown poles topped with more greenery dotted around the landscape. A thick blue line cut through the green, and it seemed to flow as if it were constantly moving. Confused, the creature took a calling out into the darkness: “Hello, can anybody hear me? It’s so cold out here.. I don’t want to be alone anymore.” It called as the vision slowly faded away.
A moment after the vision’s disappearance a speck of blue light appeared in the distance. With its heart racing and cautious hope, the creature ran toward the light and as it drew closer it saw a ray emanating from a wide ring housed within a dark structure towering overhead. Transcriptions surrounding the ring seemed like a language that a simple being was not able to comprehend but the sound emitting from the light kept drawing it closer making the creature fall into sudden dizziness as an abrupt force sucked it’s body through the portal.
The eye has opened. Standing in shock with the strange feeling of real texture beneath its feet, the creature stared, awestruck, at the world that now surrounded it. It all looked familiar. It was the place from its vision. The place it has longed for. Overwhelmed by the various sights, sounds, smells, and feelings, the creature walked through its new world as the light faded and sank away in the distance, it walked in darkness until the light emerged once more and a new day began. This time, however, it wandered in wonder rather than in despair. For the first time in its impossibly long life, hope of something better was finally possible.
Time is not something a creature is concerned with. Nor its destination. The connection with the forest is all it cared for. And there was a day when the connection fell off. The glow of the flowers was signaling some kind of event. An unidentified noise has been detected. Far off in the distance, in the direction from which the creature had come, a great pillar of light shone into the sky and the creature knew that the portal responsible for bringing it to this new world had opened once more. With haste the creature ran to the peak of the hill, afraid of missing whatever the event may reveal it stared into the distance. The portal shone brightly, open and inviting. Cocking its head, the creature examined the portal, waiting for it to either disappear or for something to come from within it. Impatient and confused, the creature simply uttered a single sentence:
“Is this the end or a new beginning?”
