TOWER OVERLORD

Hope in All its Forms by Nikita

 

Once again Ashen Hawk found himself wandering from the tower, his feet leading him through the snow covered forest. As always, he found himself just walking above the ground, even though that didn’t happen when he was standing still, and never in the tower. Eventually, Ashen Hawk found himself surrounded snowdrop flowers, with the ruins of a building farther back in the field. Staring at the flowers, he recalled the fact that their meaning was one of hope and rebirth. Ashen Hawk, though, felt nothing but feel nostalgic for something he couldn’t remember when he saw them. This elusive memory might have been important, but it always slipped from his mind like melting snow.

 

The nostalgia, though, would quickly be followed by intense waves of grief and longing. Both caused by whatever it was he’d forgotten; and how could he feel these emotions when the memory wasn’t there? No matter what Ashen Hawk did, he couldn’t pull whatever it was to the forefront of his mind. The effort would usually leave him feeling exhausted, standing in that field of snowdrops and pondering how similar they were. Both were immortal, unaffected by the passage time (even though the flowers should have been dead because of the snow) and despite the meaning of the flowers, none of them had brought an ounce of hope to anyone.

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