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I sail through void

Lonely and cold.

I don't remember how or why

Just how lonely I am.

But what is this?

In the distance, a sapphire shimmers

In a matching azure halo.

It calls to me, I must oblige

I shall introduce it to my deep ruby.

They will become friends.

This sapphire is vast and grand

Its surface is alive and kissed by the sun.

It is my instinct to crawl up inside of it

To seek shelter, in its molten womb.

There is a patch of liquid hot earth

The perfect place to enter the blue star...

But oh!! My ruby!! It came off and I have lost it

...My concentration lost with it, I crash

Not into molten rock, but a strange construct near it.

The landing is painful, and the light is too bright.

I seek shelter, down where it is safe.

Protected...

Warm...

Dark...

...I drift to sleep.

I begin to dream...

In my dreams, I can see my jewel.

Become it.

The small creatures of this world can grow

Get better from it.

Grow!! Yes, grow!!

This is an exciting dream, to have such an impact on the world.

It makes me feel good.

Before long, we have all found myself again,

Slumbering away.

They feed on me now

as if I a suckling mother.

As the ground beneath them lifts away

From the ice and towards the sun

I feel so proud, yet the feeding begins to hurt.

They finally bite too hard, and now?

I am stirred from my slumber.

I crawl to the surface, but

The flying island exists no more.

I wonder if it ever did.

...and then I see her.

The lifeform so kind to me.

I think she was the mother

Of she who spoke to my ruby.

If she approves, I must be doing right.

Satisfied, I drift to sleep once more

...

I slumber again.

My next dream is less pleasant, though.

One of these creatures bothers me.

Demands me.

They have grown venomous, and hostile.

As soon as I arrive as requested, I destroy it.

I have to. I must continue my dream.

I must watch my world grow again.

I grow anxious...

I ask myself why I do good things.

Do I do them purely for the sake of these lifeforms?

Or because it makes me feel good?

Is kindness truly so selfish?

My long slumber comes to an end.

My hunger grows and I quickly have my answer

I love them, but now it is time to harvest.

What took thousands of days to rebuild...

Gone again in the blink of an eye.

I feel engorged...

satisfied.

Swollen ...pregnant.

I get it now.

My babies will leave this nest I have made for myself...

they will find other wombs out there to nurture and protect them... just like this womb protected me.

..

...The day comes.

The last life flitters away from this womb, and it is time for my babies to leave. I watch them depart, feeling sad to see them go, yet...

...so...

...proud....

I feel tired.

Alone in my rapidly cooling womb, I...

Drift...

To... sleep... again...

...for the last time.

...goodbye...

The past few times I've played Chrono Trigger, I've found myself dreading the prehistoric era. I've played the game enough that I remember every part fairly well, and I can usually find things to like in ever part of the game.

But I just hate fighting the goddamn dinosaurs. Not like the Tyranno or Nizbel or anything, I just hate fighting the random encounters ones. They're just annoying and each one has different weaknesses and resistances that it just gets annoying.

Also, the music sort of gets to me after a while. And I realize how important the era is to the story, but I think they could have done more with the prehistoric arcs of the overall plot.

All the other parts of the game always sort of inspired me. I loved the feel of the middle ages. It felt somehow different than the setting of other RPGs that generally take place in a medieval setting. I think the future era was probably still one of my favorite post-apocalyptic atmospheres in anything I've ever read or watched or played. The present seemed boring at first, but then when you get later on in the story and see some of the connections between 600 AD and 1000 AD, I come to appreciate it, a lot, as well. The Dark Ages are sort of self explanatory. They remind me a lot of the Netharese from Forgotten Realms, but it's also an era that has a lot of its own neat things. I loved the music, loved the locations. Especially the Mountain of Woe or whatever it was called.