Challenge 11 Wood Between Worlds Fill - Drabble Chain #3

[lady_songsmith]

In a forest as old as infinity and as vast as eternity, where no one ever walked, a tree fell.

Where its roots had once gripped the soil, the ground was now marked by a perfectly circular hole, as though some fantastic giant had scooped out the earth with a spoon. From the deepest part of this hole, where once the taproot had run, a clear rush of water boiled up, untainted by sand or mud. It rose swiftly, blooming until it filled the hole. Just as swiftly, it settled into utter stillness.

A new world had just been born.

Comments

[pencildragon11.livejournal.com]

OHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Wow. Yes. asdfjkl flail.

I still want to know what caused the tree to fall, though, and if the world prompted the tree or the tree prompted the world and if the pools are worlds what are the trees and and and.

[autumnia]

So that's why the tree fell. The idea that a tree falls when a new world is born is pretty awesome.

[heliopausa.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is marvellous! Answering so much, and opening up so much!

[snitchnipped.livejournal.com]

Love love love love love love love.

Also: love.

Yeah, that about covers it!

[snacky]

Oh, I really like where you went with this! So many possibilities with a new world, and I like your idea of how the world is created in the Wood.

[metonomia.livejournal.com]

OMFG LOVE.

This has so much a sense of the world-tree idea to me, and I love the fact that it has to fall, to die, in order for a new world to become.

akljdaoiejw that whole main paragraph is SO lovely, so mythopoeic, and I love that you sum it up so briefly and distinctly - we end with the feeling of all the possibilities of a new world.

[rthstewart.livejournal.com]

Perfect. A tree falls and a world is born and it ties in wonderfully with the previous drabble.

[starbrowsings.livejournal.com]

I looooved this idea of how the wood gives birth to new pools and new worlds. The imagery of the giant scooping out the earth with a spoon was terrific. You captured the feeling of the ancientness and majesty of the wood and the magic of its perpetuation.