Harmony

●•~The Prologue~•●

In this realm, man doesn't exist. There are few places where the vast open forest does not reach, the seven places where it's wide and open covered by white-sanded beaches. The large silver-leaved trees reach high into the lavender sky, the soft clouds slowly drifting with the ever-cooling breeze. The sunlight bounces off of every crystal-clear lake and stream, the swaying grass as pastel pink as the dawning sky.

It is here that our story begins, in a quiet patch of forest with golden mushrooms and silver grass. One of the seven beaches is nestled on the horizon, the white sun just rising into the lavender sky, which was painted with hues of pink and gold that bounce and dance along the clouds.

Something that makes this patch of forest so special is the creatures living inside the hollowed golden-trunked trees: a species known as Ilkins. The Ilkins have long nested in these trees, only peeking out at dawn to hunt and forage the sweet honeyberries that hang from the golden mushrooms' caps.

For centuries, their species has been slowly dying out due to a disease known as Olnisos, or 'Dying Heart'. Their kind is much more prone to getting Olnisos because of how sensitive their hearts become when they lose their mates. Their glowing, golden hearts, which gain their glow once they fall in love, slowly begin to fade to black once their mate is deceased.

Our story begins with a young Ilkin known only as Sha. Ilkins do not give their young names, only nicknames. In Ilkan, their language, 'Sha' means 'tiny yet fierce'...