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Opening fiction for old novel I'm about to pick back up 

They said it was the wind that hollowed out the creek that twisted and turned and chugged its way through Stonefield, but they were wrong. It was history. In the Jiangshan Plains ten thousand years before were the first people. They ate bugs off leaves and had kids and died and made camp by the edge of the creek. Caught fish there. It was a miracle that in a hundred generations there was never a war. The centuries, though, bore witness to a million battles.

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