Zyva's Rantings

Zyva's Rantings

"My home was the most beautiful forest of olive, fig, palm, apple and juniper.  The gardens of my family were full of amarantos, iris attica, lilium candidum and anemone amungst the fruit trees.  There were white button, morel, and bonnet mushrooms that were so delicious.  I have a few left in my satchel if you want to try one."

"My friend Yaki Button who was older than me, showed me the very special herbs of the forest.  But I can't tell you about them.......  But she is so very clever.  She was a student of one of the elder Pixies and was learning sorcery.  She showed me such fanciful tricks that were much more advanced than the magic my mother taught me.  I was always so much bigger than my kind.  They teased me and played mean tricks. <pout>  But they always apologized.  I miss my family."

"I met the beautiful dragon on the mountain before it erupted.  She was soooo old!  She was very kind to me and we talked for days.  My village was preparing to leave as the tall mountain was rumbling and blowing smoke.  They were going to the Haven across the narrow sea, but I was mad at Yaki Button, so I went up the mountain to explore before we were supposed to leave.  That's when I met the golden dragon.  She told me stories about the mountain and the world beyond.. She told me the storms that came from the west were caused by a giant tower of steam that would erupt spewing water and steam high into the air every three months.  She said that the ocean would just open up and blow steam far beyond the lands of the Etruscans and even further than the lands of the Ship People of man.  She is so magnificent"

"One day she told me that the mountain was about to awaken most violently and that I should take my pack and fly as fast as I could away over the ocean.  She seemed very concerned about me and so I did what she told me and the mountain erupted so high that it darkened the sky and I got lost.  My family is at the havens across the narrow sea.  But I don't know where the havens are.  So I flew until I found this island."