The Quiet World Maker (A Crafting Progression Fantasy)

Some men conquer worlds. Paul plants beans. Torn from his laboratory by an experiment gone wrong, Paul, a materials scientist with more curiosity than common sense, wakes in the darkness of an abandoned mine, in a frozen and ailing world, and discovers that he can see what no one else sees: the Ether that runs through stone, water and every living thing like light through a cathedral window. With this gift, he builds a cabin, sows a few beans and coaxes a spring out of the rock; and little by little, around this humble refuge, the winter retreats, the streams remember where they were meant to flow, and creatures long forgotten come home to a valley that is learning to breathe again, accompanied, for reasons that remain unclear, by a pebble that has decided to walk and a wolf with no notion of personal space. Across the valley, people light fires at night, leave gifts by the water's edge and speak of him in their prayers. Paul assumes they are simply very polite neighbors. A slow, cozy fantasy about a man, a waking world, and the quiet art of living in harmony with it. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Quiet World Maker (A Crafting Progression Fantasy) — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠