The sky was a vast expanse of melancholic gray and the crimson blue light made the night imminent.
Each twilight his feet felt the kiss of the dewy shrub as he waited for the first star to come out that in a hushed sweep descended as peace.
He would raise his finger to the sky and upon the river of his eyes the star broke into fragments of tears.
He was slowly dying but a greater him was to tread the grassland.
His eyes weren't found.
Only his jaws still stuck with the beauty were dug up from the stardust.
A fossil jaw plucked from the badlands of Ethiopiaβpoints to East Africa as the birthplace of our evolutionary lineage. The site where the jaw was found, called Ledi-Geraru, was a mix of grasslands and a few shrubs 2.8 million years ago. This write draws inspiration from the above.