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| We are the granddaughters of the witches you didn't burn |
We recount the ending of the world from the day the walrus’ came onto land. Tens of thousands of them having no choice; the ice was gone. It was the walrus’ who showed us we were done.
All across the world people reacted to the ending in different ways. In the Mideast the people turned to fury, forgetting the gentle words of the prophet, they turned from fear to anger to rage and the land burned because of it.
The middle west cried. They cried to their God, the man who had died, ‘why why why.’ Why have you abandoned us? Why have you forsaken us?
In the Yuaneast the people looked up in the sky. They saw freedom in the stars and planets and tried to escapes the bonds of a planet that no longer loved them.
The west buried their heads, closed their doors and stretched barbed wire across their borders letting no one in. But they let no one out either and like caged animals they prowled the lines in frustration and terror. Then turned in on themselves and of what happened next no one likes to speak.
We in the north, what did we do? We listened to the raven. We stood in the silence of the forest and listened. In the observation of the animals that were left, we saw the simplicity of life we had forgotten. And that was how it would be. We let go of the things that made us too human, too different from each other and the other creatures in our midst and lived the way the planet told us we should.
That was the intention, anyway.
Daughter M. Agatha,
Lumen Salvatoris ecclesiam sanctae Mariae
(Saint Mary’s Church of Our Savior’s Light)
Burned as a witch and for consorting with the fiend M_ X_xv__**
*Verba Eius - her words
**the year was so badly smudged on this document,
it is impossible to date.
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