Diamonds Under the Dirt Ch1The NeedNourishing sunlight boiled the skin on the back of the king's neck, patiently cooking it to an eventual hearty red. He knelt in a barren field at the centre of a worried gathering, his knees digging into the dirt under the pressure of his body weight. Of middling age and brown in colour and disposition, King Alsofir was generally considered an aggressive, if deep-thinking, ruler. He grasped a handful of dirt in one hand, staring it down as though it were a stubborn opponent in a game of chess.It was a sickly combination of white and grey, hard and dry, and as he picked it apart to nothing, he found the dessicated corpse of a wo