A lovely sight.
she looked and looked, thoroughly entertained.
"Ah. Why, puny one, aren't you the most beautiful thing in existence?" she said back then with a smile.
in a struggle that it couldn't ever possibly comprehend.
beginning the ascension without any purpose
and again
it tried again
and yet after each stumble and fall
to hold on
for it
was too slippery
the crystal
with its ceaseless endeavor
the dull-minded being knew nothing of the rich world around it, remaining plain and ignorant of anything
a glassy quartz
one time she saw a creature crawling upwards on the surface of