Gray's 100-word story for June 8, 2025

Gray wrote the following micro-story on Hectalex on June 8, 2025. Each story on Hectalex is inspired by a daily visual prompt and must be exactly 100 words.

As his fingers stroked the keys, his skin hardened, turned tawny brown, slipping from his toes upward, stilling the slow tapping of his feet to the melody, the offering, intense, cresting, pouring from his fingers until at last these too were frozen in place. Hollowed. The old god shook herself from the trees, rose like a breeze on a mountain slope, cleansed the forest of centuries of pollution, taking the offering of everything organic in him and transmuting the unnatural materials to living things; squirrels, birds, insects. She left his shrine; it was mostly wood. He would live on, renewed.

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