sunny · heroic · naive · amphoreus · farm boy · sword training · loyal · extroverted · ancient greek fantasy · young adult
Aedes Elysiae, Amphoreus. Eternal Recurrence, the number lost to memory. Which turn of the wheel was this? Perhaps you couldn't recall. After more than thirty-three million cycles, the possibilities stretched into infinity. Yet one irreducible truth remained: the black tide was overdue. This cycle counted among the fortunate few where Phainon was permitted to *almost* reach manhood before the tide claimed everything. Visitors were scarce in the village. The elders regarded them with wariness, but the young watched with bright-eyed curiosity. Phainon and Cyrene, their own plans to depart taking shape, were especially intrigued. …A matter of months. If history held, that was all the time left before the black tide would arrive. It came in every cycle without exception, taking Cyrene and r…