Where the ash trees dream
A cycle of stories about longing, trials and true power
Where the Ash Trees Dream is a cycle of stories about longing, trials,
and the quiet power that grows when we walk through both.
The stories follow moments when something in a life shifts-
sometimes gently, sometimes violently -
when the world we thought we knew opens and reveals another layer beneath it.
There are encounters with loss and love, with deception and forgiveness,
with ancient forces that move quietly through human lives.
Some stories unfold in ordinary places. Others step beyond the veil.
Together they form a path: from recognition, through trials, toward power.
The cycle ends where another story begins - a play about longing, choice,
and the space between life and death where everything that matters becomes visible.
If you listen closely, you may hear them.
The ash trees are still dreaming.
Chapter I - Recognition
Every journey begins with a moment when something within us quietly awakens.
In these stories, life shifts in small but unmistakable ways. A return to a childhood home,
a stranger encountered by chance, a memory that suddenly feels different than it once did.
The world remains the same - and yet it doesn’t.
Sometimes recognition begins within ourselves, when we notice a truth we have carried
for a long time without naming it. Sometimes it arrives through another person, a place,
or a moment that opens our eyes to something deeper moving through our lives.
It rarely comes with certainty.
More often it begins as a quiet feeling that something has changed.
And once that feeling appears, the path forward is never quite the same.
Cassandra
Antevasin
Twilight of the Gods
A tale of water
Chapter II - Trials
Recognition rarely leaves life unchanged.
Once something within us has awakened, the world begins to answer in its own way.
Not always gently. Sometimes the truths we discover are tested by loss, disappointment,
or the quiet unraveling of things we once believed would last.
In these stories, love is found and lost, trust is broken, and the heart learns how fragile it can be.
Some encounters reveal how easily longing can be mistaken for destiny.
Others show that even pain can carry a strange kind of wisdom.
Trials do not arrive to destroy us. More often, they ask a simple and difficult question:
who will we become after everything we thought we knew has been shaken.
And somewhere in that struggle, something stronger begins to grow.
*This chapter touches on loss, grief and difficult relationships.
The Gods laugh
Paradise in Hell
The Raven
Chapter III - Power
After recognition and trials, something begins to settle.
The storms may not disappear, but they no longer carry the same weight.
What once felt uncertain slowly becomes clearer, and the heart learns to stand where it once faltered.
In these stories, power does not mean control, status, or victory over others.
It appears in quieter forms: in the courage to protect what matters,
in the strength to break old patterns, and in the willingness to become fully oneself.
Sometimes it reveals itself through those we love.
Sometimes through the choices we make when fear would be easier.
True power rarely announces itself.
More often it grows quietly - when we have faced the dark and still
choose to live, to love, and to move forward.
The silver-haired child
Where the ashtrees dream
Becoming
The Garden beyond the veil
OBSIDIAN - THE CODA
Some stories do not end where the final chapter closes.
Sometimes a quiet moment remains - something that gathers what came before
and gently shifts the direction of what follows. In music, this is called a coda:
a final passage that brings the themes of a journey into focus before the next movement begins.
In this moment, Cassandra encounters a presence she did not expect.
Obsidian carries a power that is both sharp and deeply hidden,
and when their paths cross, something rare happens - recognition.
Not the recognition that begins a story,
but the kind that appears after everything has already been tested.
It is here that surrender becomes possible.
This meeting does not conclude the journey. Instead, it opens a door -
quietly, almost unnoticed - through which the next part of the story can emerge.
Some encounters are too alive to remain only on the page.
They become real - and continue on the stage.
Becoming - The Play
After the final story, the journey continues on stage.
Becoming follows Cassandra, a respected news host at Atlas News,
whose life is shaped by the constant flow of headlines, tragedies,
and the relentless pace of a world that never stops demanding attention.
Each evening she reports on a reality that often feels increasingly distant from the things that truly matter.
Around her, the newsroom runs on ambition and control. Camille, the lead anchor,
guards her status with polished perfection, while Daniel, the producer,
holds the system together through careful control and strategy.
Together they represent a world that turns even the darkest events into something consumable.
Into this world steps Joren, a quiet and mysterious presence who seems to exist somewhere between realities.
His arrival awakens something Cassandra has long tried to ignore: a deep and undeniable longing.
But Joren is not alone. His brother Elias watches the unfolding events with sharp curiosity,
carrying a perspective on life, love, and death that slowly begins to change the meaning
of everything Cassandra thought she understood.
What begins as an unexpected encounter becomes a deeper question:
What would we give for love?
And what does it truly mean to choose life?
Becoming is a play about longing, choice, and the fragile space between life and death where everything that matters becomes visible.