all he did was fade away

Day Sixteen:

 

Once upon a time there was a man who didn't want to be there. It wasn't the here he didn't like, just the there. For there was an unpleasant place filled will belligerent beasts and entitled entities. All of which made for a hostile experience of the there. And from there no escape could be found.

 

And so the man tried all he could to escape from there and return to here. The here was warm, the here was full of comfort, the here was a place of solitude where the things of the there could never find him and if they did he would have all the power in the land to smite them into oblivion.

 

But slowly the exposure to the there chipped away at him. Causing him to crumble away as pieces were carried off in the wind. The fight to keep himself in one piece was starting to falter as pieces became chunks. Exposing him to all the there and leaving him an empty husk that was in danger of being filled with bile and bitterness like the creatures of the There.

 

And he lived but no one was happily ever after in the There.

Done