Specks of ash and soot floated into his face as he watched the impossible take place in front of him. The ancient city, no the indestructable city, the seat of all learning, all power, and the legacy of all his ancestors had somehow fallen. Es Eoh'den, his home, was burning.

Forcing himself to watch for a short while longer, Lorn finally tore his gaze away. Realizing the danger he was in, he steeled himself and turned back to the sheer cliff face. He had to keep going. He had to find his way up. There has got to be a way... 

Lorn finally found another handhold and began pressing upwards once more. 

~*~*~

After intermittently climbing and struggling for three hours up the unforgiving cliffs he finally discovered a long mountain goat trail that, if not easy, was at least safer than scrambling blindly up unknown rock faces. Lorn spent that night in a small cave whose previous owner had probably been some sort of dangerous mountain predator. Luckily this den had been long abandonned by the time he stumbled upon it half dead in exhaustion.

When he awoke it was still dark. Lorn pulled his body aching out of the cave.  He was unused to hiking but he figured that dark was the best time to avoid notice, and he had to continue. The wind began blowing violently again, pushing him into the stone wall and filling the air with the smell of burning wood and specks of ash. Looking back once again at the glowing city behind him, it was so easy to imagine that the streams of smoke rising up into the air were simply just the daily excrement of chimmenies, hearths and stoves as people went about their everyday activities, not the ruined, burning wrecks of houses, shops and livelihoods. 

Shaking his head in resignation, Lorn gritted his teeth and moved forward, but not before a single drop escaped, streaking down his sootstained face. Wiping it away furiously, he cursed under his breath.

well since then... 

I have finished sophomore year of college

Been working and saving money for a car all summer

Gone to multiple parties and clubs (yay game night at Tiffany's, and Dan's first clubbing experience)

Seen a number of movies
Gone to Next (formerly Na)

Gone hiking in the Grand Canyon and Zion National Park (huzzah polygamy porter and hiking from north rim to the colorado river and back in 1 day)

Turned 21 and thrown the subsequent parties (involving live muzack and later some lucid and fireworks)

Hung out with Philip and Brian Roxas visiting from CA

and Nowwww Brian J. Hill is coming today to visit again for a week.

coming soon... I may be involved with another film project involving my very good friend Amy Hosseinnian

so yeah... thats a looong update in a nutshell/bullet form... (I need to get back to doing this again regularly)

~J.I.