For countless years, it has been silent outside.

Perhaps everyone has grown up on the novelty of fighting.

I yearn for this painful quiet to last forever.

I can feel the cold air circling my body.

Nothing new there. I miss the warmth.

I miss everything. I want to go home.

But that will never happen.

~ Wyrio 497

Strange sounds outside again. Strange and alien sounds.

What is that terrible thunder? My hands on the solid stone of my cave.

They judder at my touch but this is impossible. This cavern is high on the mountain.

Deep in the stone, safe... that was the whole point, was it not?

This eerie thunder. What could it be?!

~ Tyliu 136

I cannot stand this thunder. Constant, unrelenting...

Everything shakes when it is near. The rocks, the stones, my friend's skeleton...

Make it cease, I cannot bear this for much longer!

~ Tyliu 137

I have found a way to deal with the thunder.

I must have done for it does not bother me any longer.

It has been a storm of noise for many years. Admittedly the rumbling has ceased a little...

Sounds are coming from further afield now... in the direction of Arbo.

The beach, I remember that place. Sand and salty water, the people warm...

I hope they are not in danger...

~ Tyliu 142

An eerie quiet has descended.

I know it will not last.

In the darkness, I lie and embrace the bones of my only friend...

~ Tyliu 157

Darkness and quiet. This is more like it.

This is what I know and have grown to love.

My memory likes to tell me I was loved and adored outside.

My memory lies.

It must do. This solitude is far too comfortable.

~ Tyliu 269

There is nothing to do in this cave. Nothing but count the years as they crawl by.

I haven't had any visitors in a long time. I haven't heard someone say my name...

I miss that man, alive and talking. Breathing warm air around me.

His head resting on my chest as he fell into his eternal sleep.

Thanks to me.

Would there ever be anyone else in my existence?

Anybody?

~ Tyliu 342

Today a visitor!

A young child... exploring by the sound of it.

I pressed myself into the rock and shadows, I did not want to scare her.

She was precious, clambering around the rocks and puddles of water.

Playing with her imagination, declaring she was a great explorer.

My smile arose as I listened. She reminded me of myself as I used to be.

Curious, playful and adventurous.

Oh I used to be all those things, before stuck in here. Forever.

~ Tyliu 452

A refreshing breeze entered the cave today, meaning the lighter weather was here.

Those accursed Weather Stones... I am amused at the failure of that idiot mage.

It was his fault after all. Both he and that ignorant girl who wanted power over common sense.

Never chase power over anything. The whole of the world was now suffering that mistake.

The change in weather here meant there were two Stones in this vicinity.

Places like Usheb Valley only got baking heat due to the powerful Stone there.

Maybe one day, someone will fix this. But I doubt that.

They can't stop fighting long enough.

~Tyliu 459

My mind was giving me paintings from the past today. Must be a birthday.

My mother. My brother. My son.

My first love and how we told our passion.

My capture and how I ended up in this prison.

My eyesight leaving me.

My vengeance being unsated.

My friend begging me for his death.

I despise birthdays.

~ Tyliu 470

Only good thing about being an ice demun in this situation is that I do not feel the cold.

This cave is warm to me, especially now that I haven't felt the warmth of love in so long.

My only company is my memories and the now barely existent bones of my friend.

Those out there have no idea how good they have it.

I would give anything to be at peace. But I'm in eternal conflict with my loneliness.

Let it be done. Let me go home.

~Tyliu 472

Here we go again.

More thunder. More screaming.

More death.

I am not scared this time.

Maybe this battle will bring me another friend.

~Tyliu 475

I hear the kryken!

Who released that torment onto this world, again?

None of my kind left. Only I could fight him.

But I'm imprisoned in here. Forbidden to leave.

That monster told me I could never leave, or my son would be punished.

My son who was not of my species because I fell in love with a humun.

I gave birth to him, my beautiful boy. But when my father saw him...

The rage we ice demuns can release is terrifying. People think fire is scary.

~Tyliu 476

The year I believe is Tyliu 478 but I cannot be certain.

I no longer hear the rumblings of that thunder below my home.

For too long was my rest disrupted by the screams of the victims of war.

For too long did I yearn for the dreadful conflict to end.

Now finally, I hear silence and the sounds of the morning again.

Why do people fight? Why do people die needlessly?

And for what? For nothing.

Life is precious, I have to believe that for I can't ever die.

~ Tyliu 478