Title: Fool
Rating: PG
Prompt: Food
Summary: Prequel to Dry, Woo hoo. Amos contemplates the emperor. Kudos for guesses on who Amos actually is in the real world (same name).
Amos sighed and sat down on the dusty shore, beside him a pillar of rocks marked a life, ended by foolishness.
The year had been promising, with the irrigation they had been able to grow their crops and gardens. He and his wife had dreamed of fruit and vegetables filling the storeroom. Until the day a great wind monster had torn up their fields. Their food and dreams torn up and carried with it.
She didn't have enough food was what the healer said. That wasn't it, what had killed her was the foolishness of a man that didn't care.