Timedancers

Timedancers

Mercy of Trees

Chapter 1: Escape, Eviction, Exile

The beginning of a mythic journey through exile, memory and the mercy that waits within loss.

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Russell Patrick Brown, PhD
Nov 07, 2025
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It is, it always will be, and it certainly was an inconvenience to be evicted.1
I had once again escaped to the green island across the Great Waves, and there, just the day before, I was alone in the Stonecutter’s cottage by the sea.

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