[ for josh ]

• the grass is green and the air is sweet, and the streams run quick and clear with the spring snowmelt
• it is quiet, here. it suits you - at least, you think it does. you've never had anything else
• the green calls to you; bud and blossom, flower and flourish. you can feel it grow
• the seasons change, and you can feel that too: you can feel it when the trees take one last breath then let it all out before winter as the leaves fall, or when the ground begins to thaw and buried seedlings start putting down roots
• your companion is half-man, half-wolf, and part of you can feel the wolf, too
• you do not feel that you are fit to save the world. but if not you, then who else?