In the darkness

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Aeons ago, long before time itself existed, lived a clan of miserable beasts: the damonians. The damonians lived in a world of nothingness. All they felt was hunger, exhaustion, sorrow, regret and depression. There was nothing around them but darkness. No land, no water, no food, no other living beings… they survived by killing and eating one another – or they starved to death.

For a long time, their kind searched and searched for something more, all in vain. Most died of hunger and exhaustion, while some even took their own lives.

They gave up hope that there was something beyond this loathsome, rebarbative world. Soon, they reached the brink of extinction. Their race might have been wiped out completely if not for Wolvian.

Wolvian, a young damonian lived in constant terror as he knew that if he wasn’t alert during every waking moment, he would be killed by his own relatives in an attempt to satisfy their hunger.

After a long time span of this miserable existence, Wolvian, not unlike his great ancestors, desperately longed to change his way of living. He had willpower and ambition, and he sincerely believed that there was more to life than what his clan knew, and all he had to do was discover the right lens to see the true picture.

He searched, walking in a single direction for a long period of time, though he grew old and weary.

Finally, he found something he had never seen before. It was stunning and at first, he couldn’t move, frozen with shock, surprise and so much more. What he was looking at was huge. So huge, in fact, that he couldn’t see its end. It seemed to go on forever and ever. He used the last of his energy to run towards it.

It was in a colour similar to his fur, but lighter and more beautiful. Slowly, cautiously, he dipped a paw in it. It felt wonderful…. It was cool, and it left little circles of itself on his paw. The circles disappeared quickly but he could still feel them in his fur.

He put his paws into this strange miracle again, and it splashed up against him. At that moment, he felt something he didn’t understand. It made him want to screech, jump, and run around wildly. It was tingling sensation, so lovely he didn’t know how to describe it. It was a feeling that none of his kind had ever experienced before.

Joy.