It was the worst kind of day to be lost and alone on a mountain. For I was alone staring at the sky as it was in atrophy. The war of the sky and the treaties and cease-fires that are signed every day above our heads conflate and annex, and thus the sky has turned orange anew, with a great inferno at the center. I sit atop of grass, thin but many. Staring beyond my sight I did and with my legs sprawled across the grass, I sat in meditation. Though I was alone, I was not, for I had armies of bravery, compassion, and magnanimity, all of which followed me like specters, awaiting a summons. Soon, I will have to barter blood for food with the beasts of this land, those who were natives, not those who were immigrants and lost, as I was. Zeus, atop the clouds with his electricity and petulance, came closer as I watched. Anon, the sun will disappear beneath the Earth and all will turn into darkness. In arrant darkness, before time and in the mind of God before had one. Without notice, the sun rose, but this was not the sun I knew, it was its opposite, for it was desolate and extinguished, forever bound to the cold and unable to be kindled anew. Drab and somber as it was, it still was able to decrypt the obfuscated trees and creatures who were tall and small, rising and falling, consuming and sparing, and thus, sight returned. In the other world of chess and checkers, clocks and endless skies, and voices and laughs, I, addled and within the boundaries of the trees and height which would cause death if escaped, obviously delineated, I was still stagnant, in a trance, at peace and war, wanting to remain still and unhampered, however, the descendants of ancient beasts drew near, and I wanted life, to remain afloat, and not sink into the sea of the forgotten if that is to be realized then I must fight, but with what I wonder, perhaps my tattered flesh, my original cloth, and coverage or my fingernails, long as an elephant’s trunk and sharp as a cobra’s dagger of the mouth. At last, the advent of fate came in reflection; for I saw myself: the knight vs the drake, the sun vs the moon, ice and flame, time and faith, Yahweh and the Leviathan, and the Archangel Michael vs the dragon of seven heads, ten horns, and seven diadems.