Winter4eva

Once there was a young woman, she had been born in a country where the government often lied. Many of the children born around her were missing limbs, or bones or skin. People said of this young woman that she had been born without a heart. She studied constantly, learning alchemy, alongside chemistry, alongside advanced physics and alongside these she studied history and while she worked she never stopped watching the world. After all she lived in a country where the government lied and that is why she didn’t have a heart.

            Then all at once she discovered three secrets. She could briefly produce rays of light that temporarily filled anything they touched with the very essence of vivacity, with beautiful life itself, and she could also produce a ray that, though she hadn’t tried it, she was very sure could annihilate matter so completely that anything that came in proximity to where the ray had fallen at any time would be poisoned and slowly dissolve. She also discovered that she did have a heart, because she was in love with a young man who loved to study and build.

He saw a great use for what she had found, outside of its esoteric original powers. And for a while they worked together. But then he got bored of her, or met someone else or simply couldn’t work it out and he left, because he had always been about moving forward. So she began to study again and she realized a fourth secret. That for the full and total success of either of her rays she must use them totally all at once. The world must be completely annihilated right at the moment it and everything on it was imbued with perpetual youthful perfection. Only this she realized would create a true utopia in the act of destruction and rebirth. So she decided to use both of the rays on the earth, and just when she had decided that the man showed back up because he had decided he didn’t want to be away from her any longer. But she did it anyway, because she knew she lived in a country where the government lied and where people left one another and because she had been paying attention and knew things were not going to get any better.