Still WaterFollow

by mythdesisyphus

The world had always been one way. Until it wasn’t. For generations, the People of the forest have lived as they always have—hunting the deep woods, fishing the rivers, and listening for the voices of spirits in bark and water. Still Water was meant to become a Spirit Talker, one who walks between the human world and the unseen. But when strangers appear beyond the trees—people who cut the forest, burn the land, and plant seeds in the soil—the balance of the old world begins to break. What begins as distant smoke becomes something larger than war or hunger: the slow ending of a way of life. As the forest people vanish and the strangers spread across the land, Still Water is forced to cross a boundary no one before him has crossed, between two worlds that do not understand each other. Still Water is a haunting story of the moment humanity turned from the ancient life of hunters to the first villages—and of one man who lived long enough to see the world change forever. Everything is always ending. Everything is always beginning.