Chronicles of NeverEnding & Forever: Book One — The Inner Children

NeverEnding wears a smile sewn into the corners of his mouth. A permanent performance of warmth over a hollow core. He carries a lantern in his left hand-inside its glass, the universe presses gently against the surface, patient and waiting. He does not know what he is carrying.Forever holds a pale doll against her chest and stands at the ocean's edge, crushing smaller stones while the unmanageable thing lives inside her. Her dark void eyes carry knowing she cannot yet speak. She prays to the stars for something she cannot name. And the dark answers.They meet in the Void. A thread connects them and together they walk thirteen psychological wounds. Fear. Confusion. Temptation. Grief. Abandonment. Shame. The seductive gravity of Control. The gray silence of Numbness. Rage finding its direction. Loneliness witnessed. Acceptance received for the first time. Surrender at the water's edge. Transformation.At every threshold a guide waits in violet smoke with riddles instead of answers. Something watches from the wound's far edge with white eyes and an empty hand where a lantern should be. The wounds do not close. They become scars.This is not a story about healing. It is a story about what love becomes when it is carried through everything that tried to take it.Chronicles of NeverEnding & Forever: Book One - The Inner Children is the first volume of a mythological trilogy rooted in twenty-five years of music, memory, and the specific architecture of two people who built a world together before they understood what they were building.The mythology is the truth of it. The truth of it is the mythology.Walk in.