rain

Pouring rain. The day made a species of night by the dark stormclouds overhead. A cabin in the woods, up a long and gradual incline of hills, nested in the flat ground at the top. Better days have departed the home, for now one of the massive trees of the forest had since fallen upon the...

"An old silent pond... A frog jumps into the pond, splash! Silence again." - Matsuo Bashō Somewhere among the vast continent a story begins; on a rather rainy day. The rain was not an absolute downpour, but it was indeed more then a drizzle. One may have even said that an air of tranquility had...