From Outside Time: a collection from Ulara
Opened
in Deningrad National Library 100 After Moonfall
Introduction
I'm quite certain Rose thinks I'm an idiot for even trying this--and she's probably right. No one will ever read any of this, after all, since no one wants their thoughts seen while they're still around to see the reactions, and if all of us die, there isn't much chance the world will survive to read anything.
But Charle gave me permission, and since even Rose brought me a contribution (reluctantly, and she stood over me while I sealed her parchment until such time as it wouldn't matter who looked at it) I think most people have accepted what I'm trying to do.
Or else they're just humoring me. I'll take it, either way. There isn't anything else to do...
Just in case anyone ever does see this, perhaps I'd better explain a little more clearly. In the box you have evidently just opened, I, Miata of the Spring Breath City Ulara, am sealing a collection of documents that I feel convey something of ourselves. A lot of it is poetical in form, but there are other things as well. The majority is highly depressing--our situation doesn't lend itself to humor easily--but, again, there are a few exceptions.
The seals I'm putting on here ought to keep it closed until several years after everyone in Ulara has died, since they're keyed to the failure of the timespell here. By that time, of course, if we fail and the Moon falls, there may be no one left alive to care. But it's possible that our long watchfulness could end well, that Charle or the Humans will find a way to seal the Moon Child's soul away again...and as I said before, this collection has given me a purpose for a good thousand years, which is a fine accomplishment for any hobby, even if it is pointless.
But enough from me--I've included so many of my own poems, and notes, that you'll likely get sick of me talking before long, whoever you are.
Oh, one more thing. If you're reading this, and any of my contributors happens to still be alive somehow? Don't read any more. Bury it somewhere. Believe me, it's safer.
--Miata, currently Chief Poet
and Archivist in Ulara the Spring Breath City
Sealed in the 100th Cycle of the Moon-Child
Contents:
Rose's
sealed writings
voices from the past (writings of the six
Dragoons)
Charle's sealed writings
songs of the children
laments
outside Ulara
A/N--I've had a great many poems inspired by this game collecting for years now, so here's my chance to put them out, since very few of them will be included in my fics. Just a couple for now, because I'm putting them in groupings and most aren't quite done yet. Soon, though. I'm quite pleased with some of the later ones.
Nothing to do with this collection, but I promised to direct some people to the new forum, the only one currently set up for Legend of Dragoon. Could be fun discussing, but we need some more people. It belongs to Elements of the Psyche. The site won't let me paste the link.
Hope to see some of you there.
Oh, and review if you like my attempts at poetry. I'll try not to put in any more author's notes. Next grouping should be here soon, as it's nearly done.