The Book of Ashes
Legend in his own mind, creator of all you see here, he walks this Earth on the path of the becoming.
On Wednesday, 1, August 2001 Ashes wrote...
As a changling I describe my day, happy birthday to Char... 11:03AM
It is cold outside and even the ground shivers at its intensity as I sit here in my woollen hat and gloves, hunched over eating my meal straight from the pan. I don't mind the simple life, just as long as it stays consistant. But the time slips are getting worse at the moment, tearing at the fabric of normality every couple of hours now. Before now I was a student, living in a flat, discussing the important things in life with a friend such as booze, dreams and life in general and I had no worries in the world, no work the next day, no debts, no nothing. But that didn't last long, I had come straight from the medieval times before there. I was but a simple messenger boy, running like the wind over mountains and streams with important news to deliver to the neighouring countries. I could not be overtaken nor caught, I was invincible. Unfortunetly I lost my way and waited at the wrong place causing casualities and strife in that world. But before that I was one of the Men in Black. I walked the streets in my black suit with white shirt and black tie and sunnies. Everyone respected me and moved out of my way as I passed. I was in command of everything that I did and all was good. And before that I was a simpleton, living a life without thought or worry, simply acting as required. Then I was myself, now I am something other.
That has been my day, now I sit here trying to unravel what it all means. In one world I was given a book, maybe that holds the answers, in another I ate the fruit of the Gods, maybe this displeased them. But in another world yet you will read this and think, what shite is this he writes. I must assure you, it is of the finest quality, this shite.
The message that I carried, I can remember and I shall write it here for one may know its meaning. It went something like...
Happy Birthday to Char who is 23 in 1 hour,
May your life always be sweet, but never sour.
May you never get lonely or sadened by life,
May you always have friends to help you through strife.
May you never get as old as me!