Soreth @Soreth@awoo.space

Goddamn, that brownie was amazing. The perfect capstone for tonight. Absolutely exquisite, possibly quite sinful.

...I wonder if they'll serve me one tomorrow for breakfast.

Axis mundi

This was not a path to stray from.

After we got back, we went into the ocean to relax. The only thing bigger than the land is the water.

And then the wind picked up, once, twice, thrice, each time stronger and longer and I felt that we should go before the voice of the place was raised to press the point.

We left, and the journey took no time at all. The world still turned around the place that we left. We were escorted on our way out by a bird of fire I had not seen before on the island, do not expect to again. We entered the wood, emerged again, departed toward the car. Quietly. To keep respect.

Precious mineral or long-dead beetle chitin, I couldn't tell. Onward, always onward, until the circle be complete. We had to tread very close to the red stone and it felt like nearing sacrelige. But that was the path, such as it was.

Afterward, we rested. I washed hands and face and poured some of my little remaining water into the rocks outside the red stone, in offering. We waited, we rested. The world turned here, but time did not pass.

This was the axis mundi, this was sacred space, this was part of something outside the rest of the island. The glyphs were carved here minutes or millennia ago, ancient peoples working with chisel land rock.

There was a path around it, a circumnavigation just outside the red stone. The air did not move. We started the circuit. We could not go back, once we started. We had to see completion.

We stopped sometimes to stare. I found a small irridescent blue spot in the dirt.

We entered a wood of trees so old that the greenery looked out of place. New life wasn't right here, this was a place of ages. We ducked under branches, clambered over lava rock, moved through the dead trees and through the silence. I spoke and regretted the sound. Even whispers were too loud.

So we walked through the days and years and at last emerged from the wood into scrubland, like passing through the exit of a hedge maze, a labyrinth. The trail beckoned yet.

So today we went north. Because yesterday we went south and the roads got worrisome. So we went north, and found a place. The beach was coral and lava, but that wasn't the destination. We were trying to find the petroglyphs.

We found a lot more.

The path was half-hidden, and almost immediately veered away into half a trail - just enough to follow, never enough to be sure where it was going. The signs that weren't missing were not maintained.

The dress seller saw that I was the one browsing and made sure to say that it was totally fine for guys to wear the garments she was selling too, which was pretty great. n..n

Also I bought two skirts and a dress. n..n;

... I got lei'd.

Less than a minute after walking past a display of leis and commenting that I couldn't really see buying one of those myself. And then, suddenly, the store clerk handing out leis ambushed and caught me by surprise.

... or not, looks like the video upload removed the fish :/

Jumping silvery fish by the seawall
http://moby.to/52mgsu

Restaurant is playing "Take On Me" loudly, a meteor blew up over Detroit instead of impacting, the lights in the water are beautiful, and I'm feeling pretty okay with this world right now.

An unnamed beach down a very steep, single-lane road. Super peaceful and beautiful, I got all zenned out after just a few minutes. Plus a couple of myna birds, which I am starting to think may be assigned to each tourist on arrival.

Hawaii's tree game is on point.

Found a very pleasant beach that will be a real black sand beach in a few thousand years, now eating lunch at a literal hole-in-the-wall burrito place.