vaeris tharos

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vaeris: "young" (VAY-ris)
tharos: "tree" (TA-ros)
young tree

"His mask of bark is not to hide. It is to hold the shape he almost had."

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The druid's prayer,
'Talren-vaetis hik'
'Rootbound Hymn'
(TALL-ren VAY-tis HICK)

"He rose where daylight broke the stone,
A sapling soul, but not alone.
The winds bent low to learn his name,
The moss grew still, the wild became.

The trees have marked him evergreen,
A hollow boy the world has seen.
Where skin should lie, the roots run deep--
A forest grows where he should sleep.

No sword he bears, no crown he knows,
Yet all things hush where young wood grows.
The birds forget their morning song,
And listen for a name gone long.

Vaeris walks--he does not age,
A leaf still trapped in turning page.
The world once reached, but held too tight--
Now even day fears gentle light."

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we repeat once more,
rythakor vorek vaeryn,
zilkaros voren nythis,
ik ryth talren.

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