Born from the Sands of a Desert Storm. Thats what my mother tells me, anyway. Guess since I have a mother I wasnt, but that is completely beside the point. At 15 years of age, my Passage ceremony is fast approaching, and from the adults I know it is something deeply secret, yet completely life changing. I am scared that it will be scary... that doesnt even make sense. But the day is set for my sixteenth yearday, and that would be a week from this very day. As the day quickly approaches, I notice more and more about what I will miss from childhood that seems adulthood does not include...

Arianne 1

The world spirals around me, and my feet finally return to the ground. "Come dance in the forest and play in the field, and sing! Sing of the glory of the world!" Singing at the top of my lungs, the sun assumes its full glory once again and I gaze up at it, reveling in my new gained powers. For I have gained the status of Aufandre, a goddess of the realm. With a simple flick of my hand, clouds dance across the sky and rain begins pouring down. I believe I will quite enjoy a universe of my own, and after some time I will prove to everyone how perfect I am and get a multiverse. So for now, I must attend to my business. A river. A town. A mountain range... no, two. More rivers. Sweet earth and the plants that grow from it. Intelligent life? That must wait some time, I am afraid of what terrors I will loose all too soon. But it is inevitable as I myself, the heart of the universe, think. Self destructive, possibly. Most instable, and the dance continues. Light beams radiate out from stars, and galaxies emerge. The colors blaze across the heavens, and I myself am all of it, but not. What a glorious feeling...