//------------------------------// // ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴡᴀꜱ // Story: The Queen of the Dark Ch. I // by Forcalor //------------------------------// 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