(Shoutout to Kade! This is draft #33. I wanted to write in this world again so here it is! This is within the universe of the Real Truth and Breakable Barrier.)

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Sprion is a prison.

That’s precisely why Sprion is just the word ‘prison’ in a different order. Even the first ones banished to this land knew it wasn’t going to be enjoyable.

Raven surveys Sprion from her vantage point from a jagged rock. It is the very definition of a wasteland. A gothic dessert.

The ground is cold and rocky. A smog fills the air, the sun just barely showing. No greenery or plants. Not alive ones at least. Barren trees and crumbling leaves. Everything is in greys and blacks and in between those two shades.

A monochromatic existence.

The only reason Raven knows that there is more colors is because of the vibrant hues seen through the barrier. Forest greens. Pastel flowers. Bluest waters. It all looks like a canvas, the pigments painted in heavy strokes and ran out by the time it got to Sprion.

A bubble like dome protects Lillia from the banished witches. The fairies just push out anyone they don’t like. Raven imagines that fairies fear doing anything wrong because being banished here is worse than a death sentence.

If you ask Raven (which no one does), she bets that fairies and anything inside the barrier are also afraid of what they created. They created Sprion or what would become Sprion. And because of the unbreakable barrier, they don’t know what has festered here. Not just dark magic but anger. Bitterness. Hatred.

They may hide in their protective bubble, terrified about what lies in the shadows, but Raven lives in reality. While no one is happy to be in Sprion, they all coexist, facing the negative things in life because they have to. The fairies of Lillia put all the bad things they can’t handle here.

Someday that will be everything and everyone until there is no one left in Lillia.

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(This is the last of my draft shoutouts! Maybe I’ll do another one, but right now, I think I’ve got enough inspiration to work on recent writings. It was a nice way to make myself revisit and finish some of my early drafts! Thanks to all that gave me draft numbers!)