![]() ![]() Hiding in the cracks of reality the spaces between your blinks. The vestiges of this old world are still clinging on, hiding in the dark places, lost in the shadows, glaring at us from behind their magic. But stubbornness is a trait of victors, so they say. ![]() The world that we trampled in our march for progress, burying it beneath cobble and railroad. These were the ages that spawned fairytale and folklore. Our steam and our clockwork may have conquered the globe, but we have built our cities on old and borrowed ground, a ground that knew many creatures and empires before it felt the kiss of our own feet. That we have forgotten, now that we've turned our attention to industry, to business, and to science. Much, much darker places.These are places that time has forgotten. But there are darker places on this earth. ![]() Or what about the high seas, and the Cape of Black Souls? Where the waves swallow ships whole, and never spit them back out. Or the Sandara, plaguing travellers for millennia with its fanged dunes and sandstorms. Antarticus, for example, has slain explorer after explorer with its wolves and winds so cold and fierce they can cut a man in half. ![]() There are many places in this world where we humans are not welcome. ![]()
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