Good news, I found my drive to write again! Seems that when Im sick and tired and at 4am, I can spout things that aren't too much nonsense!

So basically this is the preview for Volume 1, hinting in not-so-mysterious themes what's going to happen. So yeah, enjoy!



Airbourne Volume 1: The Beginning

Man has always held respect for nature, for nature’s creature, for animals. From ancient times, long since past, there have been animal spirits and deities to watch over us and protect us. Slowly, we left behind those ideas and beliefs, instead trusting gods who were more human, both in appearance and in temperament. Man found that where nature was implacable, uncaring, deaf to our pleas, human gods could be pleased, could be reasoned with, could grant favors. But that is not the natural order of things.

Human gods rose and fell with their empires, beliefs changed, the gods changed, but the gods were always human in some measure. Man tried to forget his connection with nature by replacing her with beliefs and dogmas placing himself above the rest of creation. But no matter how hard he tried, no man has entirely forgotten his belonging to nature.

Even when man thought he had completely turned his back on her to pray his human gods, do humans not eat nature’s fruits? Do humans not feel nature’s wrath? Do humans not feel nature’s call? Deep inside, every man knows a part of him belongs to nature, and it scares them. It scares them because it is illogical, it is unreasonable, it is instinctual. It is natural.

Nature may be cold, uncaring, implacable, illogical, but only because she is not human. She does not love as we do. She loves far more than any human could ever hope to love, since she loves all her children, yet she cares not for any single one. She does not care as we do. Her care is devoted to balance, to order, to all but to none more than the other. She does not reason the way we do. Her logic is blind, she sees the years come and go, the seasons come and pass, caring not for the now, for then, for later. She sees for hundreds of millennia, and plans accordingly. She does not have the same will as we do. But her will is survival, and it is implacable.

Nature’s will to ensure balance is an unstoppable force. Her loving and caring nature will warn before she uses of force, but nature speaks her own language. A language man has been trying to forget. Is it so surprising then that man did not heed her warnings? As they went ignored, nature’s forces build up, preparing to smother the problem and restore balance.

Nature has many weapons, each one a warning in its own right. Be it disease, famine, hurricanes, floods, it all has a meaning, a message that something was not right, and will be made right again in time. Yet how does nature correct man? How can nature teach man the errors of his ways when man ignores her?

Nature is forever learning, forever changing. Her logic is inhumane, and works in wondrous and strange ways. Logic foresaw that man could be a problem, and developed a solution should it ever be needed. The solution to fix the problem humanity had yet to become was always among us. It followed man’s every step, but remained hidden in mystery. Old tales abound of men who were in the likeness of beast, of strange creatures that could speak and reason, of men who became animals. And even though man tried to ignore it as much as he could, he knew that should he step out of line, he would find out those tales to be much more than myth.

If man refuses to hear nature, forsakes its language, purposefully harms balance to further his own goals, then he will be made part of nature.