Creation Myth

... as told by the moon herself to Erica the Mute.

"A long, long time ago, before there were elves and men, before there was even a sun or a moon, there lived a child out in the void. Of all living things it was the only one with a mind for building complex tools and a curiosity to try and understand, what makes the universe tick.

 But, being unique, the child was always lonely and so, one day, it wanted to create two companions, one of silver and one of gold. It readied it's tools and smelted the metals and formed them in the shape of woman and man as we know them till this day. For a moment the intricate shapes and the glint of the molten metal delighted it so, that it laughed and lost it's care.
The companions fell to the workroom floor and spilled out into the void a two spheres of liquid metal and thousands of thousands little droplets.
The ball of silver is me, the ball of gold is my brother, the sun, and one of the drops of silver ... is you.

The child, the sun and I spent a long time collecting lost drops, gathering them in a place called earth and teaching them curiosity. Until, many thousand years later, the child became tired and withdrew to its workshop for a nap. We have not seen it since then, but the gathering is still an important task for the sun and me; for when you look up at the night sky or into a new-born babys eyes you see, that our work is far from done.

But for many years now we have been idle in everything else, ignoring the pleas of our children; the sun bound by grief and I bound by the chains of promise. At last, that promise is fulfilled and I am free again.
So come, let's save the world."