There were no wise people, only decisions that worked out well due to random chance and the law of averages. Still, the line stretched for miles along the palace edifice with seekers rammed into every square meter of space between the crumbling retaining wall and the drying up moat where horrible leviathans were once
If you could be anyone, anything, anywhere, anywhen — thus starts the cascading effect of infinite choice that makes life impossible to live, at least in the sense of doing what life has always done: finding purpose in the beautiful shared struggle to secure the blessings of sustenance, warmth, love… No more, not since
The soft blue light faded as the day unfurled from its slumber. Shadows slowly elongated on the shattered porcelain path, held together by the dried blood and tears of immense beasts who once roamed the valleys when they still bore life. Today promised a semblance of mere sustenance, if the trickle still flowed from