RIBYORN : RI-TAL Root, Drift, Pulse — Reflections of the Wandering Heart Before form, there was feeling—before sky or soil, ache. From that ache came RIBYORN, a being torn between space and soil, whose longing gutted the sons of emotion itself from his very own visceral fibers.This story is one of the wandering sons, one who fell closest to the heart of living things, quiet and unnamed, until the rain whispered his remembering: Ri-Tal . Root. A country boy grows where soil remembers footsteps and windows tell the mood of a house. He listens more than he speaks, learning that even water barrels can sense thirst and that silence is a kind of language. One night he finds a mirror that hums with warmth and tells him, “You are not small. You are narrow—made for light to pass through.” Drift. He leaves for the city, where sound lives inside wires and walls. Admired and dismissed in equal measure, he becomes a listener in a place too loud to hear itself. Loneliness ripens into art. The mirror follows him, reminding, “Strange means not from here. You are not from here.” Through love, loss, and exhaustion, he begins to hear the world’s hidden pulse again—the same rhythm that once moved the cassava leaves at home. Pulse. Fevered and adrift, he rents a small house edged with weeds. Dandelions greet him where certainty fails. Rain speaks in four tongues—mental, physical, spiritual, creative—teaching him that pain is an altar and that loneliness is the size of honesty. As he designs houses and relearns movement, his body becomes a quiet temple. He begins to bloom back into himself: rooted, listening, awake. In the closing field of light, the mirror becomes sky, the sky becomes witness, and the man becomes both filament and flame. Love, reflection, and creation fold into one luminous act of return—the moment where ache transforms into origin once more. Lyrical literary fiction • magical realism • emotional coming-of-age - Three-part structure — Root / Drift / Pulse - Motifs: soil, mirror, wind, dandelion, tenderness, renewal - Part of the RIBYORN cycle — stories born of love’s endurance For readers who love: poetic storytelling, queer intimacy, rural realism, and the quiet transformation of the soul.