Author's Note

When first discovered, the Æternal language was deemed by some a hoax, or perhaps meaningless decorative gibberish. While the potential ancient nature of the inscriptions it was found in led to cautious preservation, it took years of research and debate before it was accepted and established that a real, proper language was what was being seen.

Death-Laced Song

Heaven-danced,-Fire-witnessed.

Fire-flamed.

Within-the-centre-of-the-walls-halls-gathering-empty-space-Heaven-danced.

Multitudes-witnessed.-Fire-hid.

Multitudes-flowed-as-water.

Heaven's-domain-revolved,-still-Fire-witnessed.

Still-Fire-flamed.

Fire-coveted-Heaven-yet-Fire-coveted-Heaven's-domains.

Fire-whirled.

Heaven-left.

Fire-stood.

Fire-concocted-in-loneliness-a-song-of-yearn-and-hate-for-Heaven.

Fire-sang-alone.

Fire-whirled-and-tossed-within-its-halls-as-its-melody-echoed-in-its-walls.

Fire-turned-to-its-enemy's-domain's-birth-as-the-all-mocked-it.