Tove

Chapter 12: Tove

Bathing in the sun's warming light, my mate and I grazed along the many lengths of the garden. The perfect oasis, this Eden, had been our home for centuries. Or was it only a few decades? Time was a concept explained to me, but I never understood it. Unthinkably, the Man who named me left from this place one dark day, and I was confused as to the cause. I missed him still. I'm told he was being looked after elsewhere, but where was this other place? I've never left this luscious land, nor do I ever wish to, except since the man left I found myself wondering every so often . . . what else was there?