For an hour, they sat in silence—two souls sharing a horizon they could never cross. They were the ultimate neighbors, forever divided by the very earth that gave them life.
As the sun set, Kael stood up, his joints aching for the humidity of the deep marsh. "Same time next week?" For an hour, they sat in silence—two souls
Kael was a , built for the humid, oxygen-rich marshes of the River Delta. He spent his days harvesting glowing peat, staring at the jagged violet peaks of the Aether Highlands just five miles away. To him, they were as distant as the moon. For an hour