it is warm, just watch it grow

General Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply | The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Gen | for mistymonster | 100 words | 2022-10-11 | the lamb | AO3

Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Peter Gabriel


Cooking found and fallen materials, fruits and nuts and animal carcasses and the like, was simple. It, or rather they, went into the pan, and perhaps was stirred for physical phase change, and then, thus, became a coagulated mass of healthful rations likely somewhat smaller than the sum of the ingredients had been originally, owing to volumetric loss of smoke and steam.

Bread, however, was different. Bread took a fungus: yeast. Bread became something from nothing, dry from wet and moist from sere.

Stirred by the warmth of the air, a portion of life came to rise again in Hyrule.