Things separate from their stories have no meaning.

“It was a lone tree burning on the desert. A heraldic tree that the passing stor…”

“He sat leaning forward in the seat with his elbows on the empty seatback in fro…”

“The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black a…”

“He rode out in the dark long before daylight and he rode the sun up and he rode…”