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Chapter One – The Darkness Rises "What do you have to report, General?" A green-skinned daemon stepped forth from the abysmal darkness, scaly feet click-clacking across the transparent ground as it knelt on the ground. Its spines, transitioning from dark green to blue to purple, folded in and pressed against its body as the creature looked up to the throne with red, reptilian eyes which were glazed over with fear. Its breath was shaky from both the overwhelming stress it had been through travelling through time and space for what seemed like an eternity, and the gravity of the situation of which it had found itself in. It knew it had f

"The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was lived out their lives. Thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every saint and sinner in the history of our species. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that in glory and triumph they can be the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Our posturings, our imagined self importance, the delusion that

 A little girl skipped through the woods as the sun slipped in-between the trees and the light summertime breeze made the leaves sound like the gentle creek that flowed just off to her right. Birds twittered and sing in their nests above, rabbits and squirrels frolicked and chattered as they looked for food and enjoyed the outdoors. The girl’s blue cotton sun-dress swayed with every skip, her slightly tinted blonde hair cascaded with every hop. However, her white shoes, by some act of God, managed not to get dirty along the dusty, red-clay dirt road as she bounced and kicked a bright red rubber ball as she went about her merry way. She