The Donkey

The planet was badly divided and injured by vast destructive passions cruel rulers and a dark magical science that operated in the name of twisted gods and corroded the world down to its core. <P>All the five kingdoms had two things in common: a fundamental philosophy that would not permit difference; and the capacity to tap forbidden energies at a grave cost for the balance of the planet itself and to distort them to their immediate benefit: to rule uncontested. <P>A current of white caring magic surfaced out of a sacrifice: initially a trickle it grew carried in the hearts and souls of two young lovers a few animals and a bit of dragon substance (a dusty scale? A polite belch?). <P>The lovers' experience of what it means to be separate and still one nourished a new sort of energy which blossomed and spread reunion and coexistence and healing. <P>Eventually the dark demanding gods were forced out of the planet and the mending had its chance. <P>This tale took place in a physical universe. <P>(The same tale could happen in a mental universe too. It carries a lesson.) <P>