chapter 1: seedling awakening

//What is a man?, A being lost in his own world, existing in the image of the divine, a creature who looks up at the heavens but in it heart looks down at it, and in the gravel it standeth and think itself a giant above all, cruel to those of it's own race it has no heart for and sacrifices for those it loves.//

Awakened in a crib permeating with death and anguish, a boy held by corpses long frozen in their last semblance of life.

Staring in the eyes of the long dead as the last embers of the souls bids farewell and good luck, as the last soul embers are drawn to him his captors grip fall to sand and bones restoring his freedom.

Although for reasons unknown the boy begins to cry heavily as he felt he had truly lost those he loved.

Feeling lost and awake to the reality before him, he feels the wind calling him to look back as he sees before him a human corpes larger than the others with some sentience within it eyes urging him to come closer.

As he reaches for it he hears a voice directly in his mind telling him to "survive" as the shriveled corpes began struggling to release itself from it fortitude of time.

As soon as it arm became free it stretched out it's arm at the boy, with it's arm enclosed the boy became aware of the corpse will as he heard a voice urging him to "take".

Subconsciously aware of the responsibility that came with the enclosed stretched arm, the boy became reluctant, until he heard another response in his head as he saw the corpse glowing eyes urging him to take it.

"This time no responsibility, live as seen fit, live free live as man".