I decided to do the Thursday Prompt after my friend started to do them and i was bored. i also drew this picture to go with it so that i could maybe work on my art as well. I know neither is probably that good but here it goes.( the picture was drawn on my computer using Gimp and my tablet)

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It’s amazing the power stories, legends, and myths can hold. Tell a story the right way and people believe it to be true. But, if you tell the tale of something true in a bad way and people will dismiss it as false and it will fall into the realm of myths and legends.

This place is one of those truths that fell into myths. A place that people would travel far and wide to see now lays vacant. All that is left is the wonders this place holds and myself. I am the guardian. I watch over this land to protect it from being lost.

There used to be many guardians. We would take care of this place and tell the tales to anyone who wanted to listen. Every so often one of us would travel out of our grounds and spread the tales to the world so more would come and see our wonders.

But, one year the number of visitors fell and when our storyteller came back from their trip they had a sad face. They told us how many people wrote our tale off as mere fiction and then over time even less and less people came to hold our lands as sacred as we do and then stopped coming to see us.

Then, as the guardians went on their journeys they stopped returning. I don’t know if they stopped believing in our tales as well or if they just didn’t want to return any more but I do know that I am all that is left. I do not take the journey that many before me have taken. I stay on this ground protecting and taking care of it. So that maybe one day the place I hold dear will be sacred grounds to others once again.