Wind and River

Once upon a long, long time, a wind and a river were born together high inside a snowy plateau and swept together across continents. They rushed and tumbled down rocky mountainsides and wandered for years in the endless deserts. Once they reached a great province of water called the ocean, but they turned back in fear and continued farther south where they were followed by stretches of vineyards and swamps. Fish jumping and pebbles gathering, the river and wind made the lands warm. The sun was almost jealous of the way they moved around time as it looked down.