Thunder Upon the Mountain

It began with the rumbles of a far distant force a trembling upon the mountain

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There was a time where
peace rained upon the mountain
a peace-filled with dwarves making
their jewels and shiny things,
a time where the humans nearby lived in prosperity
and bounty in the gleam of the mountain’s shade.
Then there was the distant thunder,
the trembles that began on…