Emerald: 2/10 ✦ Classless

Prologue -

Splayed out in the centre of a nightmarishly dark room, with the only light being the comforting lumina from a lone candlestick trapped inside of a stone prison. The only thoughts that consume my mind are dreams of grandeur, one of devouring and another of conquering. Plagued visions of a battlefield juxtaposed with the oneiric sight of victory and honour. 

“Awaken.” I was told.

Surrounded by a domed kingdom of books and an increasingly heavy weight of boredom in my heart. I stood up, I picked up the first piece of knowledge I saw and I devoured it. That lonesome piece of light being my only source of hope at igniting a spark of interest, eliminating my boredom as it spreads and lights up my path to truly living. As each book ignited with the scent of smoke spreading around the room, asphyxiating demotivation, burning my desire & causing the structure of this prison to bleed out, killing it in the process. As I leave with my back to the room, clothed in the most basic of impoverished medieval rags, shoeless I set out on my journey of freedom, constantly attempting to find the cure to my boredom and the eternal hell jailing my soul. 

I emerged from the kingdom of distant memories and found myself on a hill, looking down at a village below. The land was covered in green: vines, moss and trees that spanned each square foot of the building perimeters. I slid down and found myself excited by the idea of figuring out what happened to this place.

That's how my story starts. My name is Emerald, the newest wanderer of this world. This village strangely overgrown with vines and moss, holds the key to a mystery I've longed to unravel. I've spent years in that palace of knowledge, and now to escape my boredom, I stand here, on the cusp of something new. I'll spend my time sharing the stories I've read from endless years, within this kingdom.

Illustrations: @Keroshoku & @Teaw_Milk