Elvish for Goodbye

"To think of 'living' there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live' at Xanadu."
— Joan Didion, "Goodbye to All That"

The great elvish city of Wild Idyll disappeared when our grandparents were still young, and all the elves along with it. We all know dozens of stories about this near-mythical place, and hundreds more about the near-immortals who built it; but who can say what is true about a place that barely exists in memory?

Then I met the last person to have lived in Wild Idyll.

CHANGELOG

3 Aug 2022:  Copyedits and some minor rewrites and tweaks towards the end