The Last Pearl

( image source ) She stepped lightly onto the breath of the west wind. Rising higher in the blue light, ribbons of sunlight and cool clouds ...

( image source ) The sound of trees, now so lost in the hot, still breath of summer, nevertheless broke through the surface of the old w...

( image source ) The old world had sunk beneath the snow. All that remained hung on black boughs - golden leaves, crisp and curled, and...

( image source ) It must be near night now. But the sky had looked near night all day, the sun had wandered and let billowing, breaki...

( image source ) Into the storm light she turned her head. Sodden, twisting clouds raced around her vision, bringing with them a silence...

( image source ) The world woke to a glimmer of swift shadow, dancing and drawing down the moonlight. The wolves of the forest had leapt ...

( image source ) Pale, in the moonlight, her form glows between the break in branches. Feathered leaves, green-grey in the dying light...