The green tendril reached the purple coat around the mountain, found a seam in it hidden from everyone but her, and pulled!
The coat opened like a curtain!
Snow blew in through the gap, and with the snow came the scent of spring. Wet earth, new leaves, flowers that had bloomed and fallen and bloomed again for Ages. The torches along the cavern walls leaned toward the opening, then away from it.
THE Verdant Regard stepped through!
She came as a tall figure of soft green light. The body walking into the cavern was one of several. Far away, in her ever-spring domain, the rest of her sat on a bed of moss with her daughter's head in her lap, and this body was a branch she had sent out from that place, as a tree sends out a root toward water. Even so, its depth went down past his sight.
Green below green below green, spring after spring after spring, an Immensity built from every season that had ever ended and come back.
