Someday.

The sun hung high in the cool autumn air; a light breeze blew across the rolling hills, and Anthanasios wandered the forgotten paths of days long gone with no purpose but to reach his destination and no destination but the one that burned in his memory. Somewhere, he knew, a tall, white tower awaited him on a hill-top. Once the home, it was said, of a powerful giant, master of now-forgotten and arcane arts, the tower had vanished one day along with its owner with nary a trace--or so it has been told. Anthanasios knew the truth. It had never vanished. One simply had to know where to find it.

He had seen the white tower once, far off in the distance. It had called to him with promises of knowledge unimagined; the lost arts of wizards and magi catalogued in its vast library. Anthanasios was brave, he was strong, but he came from lesser stock, and had no real standing in the world. Rather than remain at home a peasant, he left one day with a pack on his back and a staff in his hand to seek out the tower that he saw in his dreams.

He had not found the tower yet, but he knew that he was headed in the right direction. He had walked the inner halls of the tower in his mind, and someday, he would return to those halls.

Goodness Me, Has It Been So Long?

I find myself almost ashamed to come back to this place, one of a thousand stillborn ideas and abandoned areas; the Bad Side of Town, shuttered, meant to have torn it down ages ago but never quite got the permits in order and the contractors hired. One of those Things best left Undisturbed. And yet here I am, back again for goodness knows what reason. Perhaps there was just too much time on my hands. Perhaps the creeping feeling of Regret insinuated itself Upon Me and brought me to this Forgotten Place.

Well, that apparently is where I've ended up. Here. Again. For the Third Time. It is well known that Three is an auspicious number when Venturing Forth, so one might Expect things to Occur in This Space with a Frequency approaching More Than The Last Time. That will not take too much Effort, as we well Know, but it is, as we Also Know, the Thought which Counts the Most.