The One Notebook Principle

Another bit of writing I found while looking through old Google Drive folders!! Clearly I need to organize my writing better. This short bit of writing is from July 24, 2014 and included the quote. Enjoy!

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“Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused — hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and further away from our world, or that magical beings require our faith, our belief in their existence, to survive.That is a lie. All they require is our recognition.” ~Charles de Lint

They say that for awhile humans reigned with their science and technology.  That Earth herself took a step back to let them rule, and all the creations of magic and myth fled.  The stories tell of grand towers reaching up to the sky and of a human’s ability to replace a man’s heart and have him live.

Until one day it all stopped.  Some say the humans went too far and Earth herself rose up to humble them and push them back.  Others say that the creations of magic grew tired of taking a back seat to the arrogance of humans and rose up against them.  

Nowadays they all tell of the Great War between the humans and their technology and all that is magic.  The humans speak of the truces that were made to fight against a common enemy.  “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”.  The creations of magic say the same.  

Now those great towers of old have fallen, and much of what once was has been lost.  The humans and the creations of magic live in an uneasy truce hard won, some say even forced upon us by the Earth, in order to save her from destruction.