Syth and Axe (Part 4) : Brown Mountain Lights
Read part 1 here: https://parallaxrealms.blogspot.com/2024/04/bunyan-went-down-to-jersey-part-1.html 1920 - Brown Mountain, NC Paul stared out across the valley. He’s been here before - probably a century earlier, following the rumors of strange ghost lights in the distant hills. He wasn’t much of a reader, but the legends he’d heard spoke of ghosts, long-dead maidens, strange visitors from other realms… he’d heard it all. But he’d never seen them. He squatted on a stone and stared out across the hillside, toward the strange dip in the distant mountain where the lights were rumored to appear - seemingly at random. Where was his other self at this moment? Another Paul, roaming across the countryside, trying to keep a low profile, but unaware that his future self had performed no shortage of feats, securing his spot in the larger-than-life history of this land. Paul chuckled and stared out over the vast darkness of the Appalachians. He’d investigated “Paul Bunyan” si...