StrangerPeace

ALT A page layout that comforts the reader that the strange words they encounter are in fact invitations to curiosity and not just there to make folks feel bad.

ALT An image of a purple mountain that states “Once and still in some places today, the progression of life was measured by the world itself. The appearance of flowers, animals, the bend of rivers, all marked the beginning, growth, and ending of journeys.”

ALT An amber ominous sunset with twelve silhouettes of plague doctors on a mountain ridge above a town. It reads “Then came a devourer, confounding and regimented, brittle yet unending: Time.”

ALT An orange-red labyrinth with a plague doctor face superimposed. The text reads: “Time came from Elsewhere, a clockwork construct of malevolence and avarice, a hungry labyrinth that sliced apart the world. And with it, the creators of Time who embody its yearning will: The Hours”

ALT A picture of a bleak sandy terrain with a poem that reads as the following: Unemployment Even with every potential deed and skill and hobby Even with every assurance of lead, of talk, of promise Even with every credential I’ve earned, I’ve found, I’ve swindled Nothing has killed grim endurance Like watching the stars in your eyes Slowly dim and fade and dwindle Until all but void has died. My heart still aches for blessing A miracle no more disguised And yet these hands feel useless Against these entropy tides Even with every denial of blame, of fault, of failure Even with every patience you bring to me so tidy Even with every hand-hold, I slip, I fall, I tumble Nothing has killed grim endurance Like watching the stars decide that burning cannot continue And all that lives shall die And all that lives shall die