Written for Tolkien_Weekly's "Sunlight" prompt.
Also inspired by Adam & Eve's respective memories of awakening in John Milton's Paradise Lost .
Awakening
Sunlight
They woke to warmth and bright colors that dazzled their newly opened eyes. It shone in the vast, smooth expanse overhead, and illuminated the myriad colors of the world all around them.
Up they sprang, and gazed in delighted wonder at their limbs, and at each other. Some, laughing, ran and leapt upon the hills. Others found dappled reflections in quiet pools, or sat and listened to birdsong in the trees. All of them found words on their tongue, and named the trees and the birds and the sun, and each other.
They never suspected what terrors nightfall would bring.