None Will Remember...

300 Million Years Post-establishment

Central Serinarcta

A long, long, long time ago, before any species now living arose, this was a place of beauty and life, where mountains grew from trees, and animals filled land and sky. But none can remember that, as it was millions of years ago, anymore. 

Many years ago, before any individual now living was born, a solitary giant wandered a changing landscape alone until its body finally gave away beneath it, and it died where it fell. But none can remember that, as it was hundreds of years ago, anymore. 

Now, a pair of alien creatures wander a desolate world among the decaying relics of a past they have never known and will never see. They come across the ancient form of an animal bigger than any that still lives, bigger than any that will from now on ever live. They gnaw at the calcium left behind in the sun-bleached bones of some primordial relic, the last remnant by which it could be recalled, which will soon be gone, just as the mountains will soon break down back to the soil from which they came so very long ago. And as a strange, cold precipitation begins to fall down from a dark sky, a sight never seen at these low elevations before, soon enough none will remember the world without it, as it was yesterday, anymore.

But though nothing is forever, still life goes on, for as long as it possible to do so.