Master of Earth

Author: AndrewJP
Word Count: 233
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Master of Earth

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I have seen things you will never see. I have experienced sounds, tastes and sensations that you will never experience. I trace my ancestry back four hundred million years, and rule of this earth is my birth-right. I outlived the dinosaurs and their sea-going cousins, surviving the pall of ash that choked the world. I have survived through all the thousands of years of the ice age. I will survive you, as well.
I was there, watching you, when you first tried to bring dry land to the sea by lashing pieces of bark and wood together. I watched the orange reflections on the water as the city of Carthage burned into the night. I have studied your attempts to imitate me with your steel-bellied monsters that disgorge fire and black smoke.
You have tainted the air and changed the colour of the sky, but the ocean is a thing beyond your ability to control.
We are irreconcilable. Yours is the way of hot emotion, mine is the way of cool curiosity. You are not my prey. I have no interest in you. Stay clinging to your mountains, to the mere thirty percent of this world that is still dry. Dare not to venture past the shore. For the deep blue beyond is my domain, and if you stray into it, I will remind you of the taste of fear.

ArcadiaTempest

Fantastic writing…...This was a seemed a little different from other works of yours I have read….the style is different some how…...still intense but it has a slower steady pace this one….great read….great concept too!!
AndrewJP replied

Thanks Arcadia, yeah writing this one was a different experience for me. It’s just a concept I’ve had in my head for a few days now, probably triggered by the recent shark attacks in Sydney. I wasn’t really sure what to do with the idea, so I just kept a notepad with me and jotted bits and pieces down here and there. Anyway, I’m glad it came out as something more than a soggy mess. Cheers!
skylina

Love it. But if I said I knew you meant a shark I’d have been lying. I seriously thought it was in reference to a higher being.
skylina

Love it. But if I said I knew you meant a shark I’d have been lying. I seriously thought it was in reference to a higher being.
AndrewJP replied

Thanks skylina! Yeah I like to keep a little bit of ambiguity in my writing. I definitely pictured sharks when I wrote this, but it’s always interesting to see different people interpret things in different ways :)
skylina

Lol. I apologise for double commenting. I’m on my mobile phone.
Shoaib .

awesome work mate
AndrewJP replied

Thanks Shoaib!
erika15

This is so interesting!
Yours is the way of hot emotion, mine is the way of cool curiosity. You are not my prey. I have no interest in you....love this part. Brilliant writing!
AndrewJP replied

Thanks very much Erika, glad you liked it :) This was one of those (incredibly) rare ones that appeared in my head one morning, fully formed, and took almost no work to complete. Wish they were all that easy, lol
Kristin Reynolds

this is wicked! love the ocean, and, having just taken a dip in the coool VT river, I’m refreshed and feeling this totally. love it. :) love, K :)
AndrewJP replied

Thanks Kristin :) Although we’re in the depths of winter here, we’re actually having a mini-heat wave, and taking a dip doesn’t sound like such a bad idea