a chronicle from the underworld

"this is not work of creation", said narayan, staring at the outside through the cave's opening. "but destruction. all this you see, the mountains, the snowy peaks, the glaciers, the frozen lakes, the blizzard, this is destruction, pure and simple. these lands were different - nitramneadh, nifrithe, nayanna, they took ages to create what had been here before. and nithramneadh level the whole place in a heartbeat. this is the nature of the world. creation takes a lifetime, sometimes more, while destruction takes a moment, a second. yet, as a second seldom holds a lifetime, a lifetime holds countless seconds...."