Auden’s Blessing
Across the Iron Forest, several stone bridges spanned the cliffs.
Waterfalls plunged straight down from them, scattering into sprays—
like gleaming white ladders descending from the heavens.
Beneath the green canopy, in shafts of sunlight,
silver-furred cheetahs and long-tailed wolves raced through the जंगल.
Giants of extraordinary size moved about the land—
some carrying goods, some tending fields, others strolling in groups…
It was a world overflowing with life—
nothing like the grim, hellish place the elders of the Vanir had described.