It Means Nothing Without Them

September: On Friendship and ConnectionSeptember 11In another life you are a warrior-chief made of stone and flesh. You train your people endlessly against the threat of invasion, or for the promise of expanding your territory. You take them to the highest peaks of the mountains to slay the winds and into the darkest depths of the cavernous continent below the surface to batter the shadows. You forever seek out the strongest and most hardened opponents to test your mettle and sharpen your blades upon. Until one day, the child from the red hells below—Death—arrives. He has come to expand his collection with those from your world and the challenge is welcome, until first Coden is slain and then you must fight and bargain with the child and he promises to take not every soul, but only those he seeks—and he seeks all but two, leaving you with your young child to roam the lands as ghosts from another world. But soon, more come—a wizard and king seeking your strength—and they take the last thing you have left . . . your child. With none left to wield the invention of war, your world flourishes. Vines cover spears and swords sink into the earth, trees overtake towers, and waters that once ran red now run crystal cerulean and it is a realm of peace. But as you wander alone, it means nothing to you. It means nothing without them.Reflection title: It Means Nothing Without ThemCreative inspiration: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's ApprenticeshipReflection question: What are those things on this earth that are better shared with others? And who do I wish to share them with?