>On the first day, there was the sun >But as time passed, the sun grew tired >Tired of shining so bright, tired of burning so hot and tired of being alone >So it sank into the sea, as, to the sun, it was a cold and dark and very gentle place to rest its weary soul >So it was that the first night came to pass, and on the first night, there was the moon >It had seen the sun's brilliance, felt its warmth, and wanted to revel in these sensations once more >So it tugged upon the sea which the sun had sank into >Back and forth the water shifted >But soon it met the land and crashed with a mighty roar >None can say how long the world was ravaged by the moon and the sea, for none were there to witness it >But even as time fell into itself, the moon continued, wishing to see the sun once more >Eventually, the force of the moon's pull, and the roar of the seas caused the sun to awaken >As it pulled itself from those watery depth it began to feel its fire burn bright once more >With the sun's searing heat re-awoken, the seas began to boil and recede, and the land began to grow >And so, the second day began >On that day, the sun's light was as blinding as it was beautiful >So blinding, it granted sight to the entities that had, all their lives, known only of the crushing weight of the sea and the hard sea-floor beneath them >They looked to the sun and praised it >The sun cast them a cursory glance, but shifted its gaze to find the thing that had disturbed its slumber >As it peered over the horizon, it saw the moon >The moon, had hidden itself away >For so great was the sun's reign over the sky, and so brilliant was its glory, that long was the shadow it cast >The moon did not care for shadows or darkness, it is why it had woken the sun after all >The sun smiled at the moon, and offered to share some of its light, so that the moon need not be afraid anymore >But the sun was still young, young and unlearned, and as it shared its light with the moon it fragmented and fell upwards >Neither the sun, nor the moon knew what this meant, nor did they care, as they simply enjoyed each other's company >Time passed, and so it was that the sun grew tired once more >With how hot it burned, it did not wish to boil the seas, so it asked the moon to take its place >As the sun fell over the horizon and the moon rose, it shone with the light of the sun, though only a fragment of it >Its light was a gentle blue and a cool breeze swept the land >Without the brilliance of the sun, the entities returned to their rest from before, though some remained to watch this strange thing that had replaced the sun >So began the second night >As the moon floated above the land, shifting the seas as it passed, it looked up and was amazed >Above it, were countless fragments of the sun's shared light >The moon stared and stared and called them "stars" >But the silence of the night was soon broken as a voice spoke to the moon >It had so many things to say; but the moon had a question of its own, where, in the infinite above, was the voice coming from >The voice chuckled, and told the moon that the sky above was in fact the voice within, the sky and the stars swirled together to make the voice >Then, the sky began to question the moon, about itself, about the sun, and about the entities below them all >The moon answered as best it could, but still, it was young, and it felt its confidence wane without the sun there >The sky was quick to answer its own questions however >Though it was not as old as the sun, or even as old as the moon it had so much more knowledge than either >For, as the sun and moon spoke with each other the sky looked down upon them both, and the entities below >It looked across and below the horizon and learned all it could >Though the sky was all encompassing it had no power compared to the sun who boiled the seas, raised the ground and banished the dark >Nor could it match the moon who pulled at the foundations of the seas without even noticing >But still, it offered the moon its wisdom >The moon was hesitant, but agreed, on the condition that it would teach the sun as well >The sky chuckled and its voice carried over the earth, and then it slapped the ground in its mirth, causing a flash of itself to impact the ground in a flash before returning to the sky's side >It had grown so fond of the moon, in so little time >Eventually the sun did awake once more, and the moon introduced it to the sky >The third day had come to pass, and the moon hung low, but still by the sun's side, learning what it could from the sky >The sky taught the sun to nurture the earth, causing life to spread across it and colours to flourish >The entities, having woken to greet the sun, took the life into themselves and felt a desire to spread what the sun had given them >The entities learned ambition >Then, the moon's lesson came, and the sky taught it not to fear the dark in the sun's absence >The sky taught the moon to move the darkness to its will, to move through it >As it walked through the darkness, the moon saw the entities once more, though they were strange now >Some lay motionless, some were warping themselves and their surroundings in impossible ways >But some were scared >Seeing this, the moon approached these entities and taught them the strength that the sky had taught it >As the entities awoke with the sun's return they tried to recreate what they had just experienced >But they could not walk into darkness like the moon could >Even so, they used their ambition to try >The entities learned how to dream >Time passed, and the sun and moon watched the entities grow and change >Eventually they wished to walk among them, to better ensure their safety >But sadly, they could not, for the sun would cause them to boil as it had the seas >Neither could the moon, as it would cause the seas to drown them >But they had each other, and that was enough >The sun and moon embraced in their solidarity, and the first eclipse began >As they pulled away from each other the sun jumped in fright as it felt cold for the first time since it sank into the sea yet it felt no water >The moon also jumped as it felt searing heat and recoiled as blinding light struck it >When the two finally calmed themselves they looked upon each other and realised >Their wish had come true >They were walking the land they had watched for so long >With the first wish, and the first eclipse, came the first spell, and with the first spell having crashed into the land, spread its magic through the stone roots >Beyond the nearby hilltop the sun and moon heard voices, and hurried to meet the entities they had cared for, for so long >But the entities did not recognise them and shunned them >They were fragmented and angry and weak >They were weak because the life that the sun had given the land had withered >They were angry because the cold and the dark scared them, as they had forgotten the dreams the moon had given them >They were fragmented because the sun did not rise as often and so they had no shared ambition >Feeling as lost as they did on the first day and the first night, the sun and moon looked to the sky and made one more wish >That it would teach them one more lesson and for the first time in what felt like eternity, they heard a chuckle >Though it was as wizened as the cracks in the land, the sky was as wise as ever, and once more it began to teach the sun and the moon