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    Forgotten Songs of Avalain
    Forgotten Songs of Avalain
    Forgotten Songs of Avalain
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    Forgotten Songs of Avalain

    By Robert Cely

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    Today the Lethe are some of the most pragmatic and simple people known today. And though they are wealthy, they enjoy no songs or stories, decorate no art, nor even grow flowers. But they were once the most gifted and beautiful of all the sons of man. They alone were blessed with the gift of flight.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBard and Book
    Release dateJan 9, 2013
    ISBN9781301020218
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      Forgotten Songs of Avalain

      By Robert Cely

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      Forgotten Songs of Avalain

      If you were to visit the Lethe today, you would find a hard-working and industrious people. Formed by a rigid practicality and an aversion to anything not useful, they have made for themselves a prosperous civilization. True, it is not a beautiful one, for they lack towering arches and tall spires. They do not decorate in friezes or colonnades. They have no great art nor are they known for their songs and stories.

      Anything built by the Lethe is as practical as they are. Homes are solid and efficient, boasting no wasted space or idle courtyards. No energy is wasted without a directly proportional show of usefulness to justify its expenditure. The Lethe do not even grow flowers, for every bit of fertile ground is committed to drawing forth food from the rocky terrain.

      But among these plain, squat buildings, these brown and symmetrical streets, you would find something, were you to visit the Lethe and explore their sterile city, something oddly out of place. Out on the edge of the old town, by the crumbling ruins of the first efficient wall of the city, lays the one garden tolerated by the dogged and pragmatic people.

      It is not an opulent garden, for no one has tended its grounds for many centuries. Quite left alone it has become choked with weeds, though a few flowers still stubbornly persist, if unknown to the population. Tall trees cast their gentle shade over the garden, alone without admirers.

      Every once in a while a child, not yet indoctrinated by their elders plodding and useful philosophy, might wander into the shade and marvel at the few surviving flowers. He may even find himself utterly enamored with dreamy and useless things. Rest assured he will not be long among the Lethe who despise such foolishness.

      But if this child were daring, and if he possessed a spirit for beauty, he might dare further into the cool of the garden, enticed by the wildness and mystery. And if he were to persist until the very center he would find the first and last work of true sculpture created by his people.

      For at the center of the garden a great obelisk points forever at the sky, as if either reaching for or accusing the heavens. It is quite hidden by the trees so no one has to look at it, and

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