Was It Likely?

here's a place you can go,  and here's the rules for when you get there Tove Jansson is my favorite artist and one of my favorite writers. Her work is the most important foundational part of my ideas about fantasy, and this is how I want to try and show you that.   These are the woods where the moon will be born. The world is young; the sky is still dark water, and the sun beyond sinks down through it slowly, in drops of liquid light. Many things are not yet finished.  The trees have leaves of green-black, and trunks and branches like scratches of white on tinted glass. They have not learned to leave any light or oxygen for others, and so the woods outside the paths, the river and its banks is a cold vacuum of total dark.  Animals live here, learning how to exist and wondering what is going to happen. The Big People live here, hungry, strange and afraid, and sometimes kind. You are one of them.  The Lonely People live here, hungry, strange and fearsome, and...