A vast white desert stretching across the land, covering mountains and valleys and river beds and plains. A lonely place, not much could withstand the heat and the wind and the sand.

A woman neither young nor old lived alone in the dunes.

Every day the woman of the dunes walked out into the desert to collect food. Tiny brown lizards, grasses, a delicate pink cactus growing under the sands.

Her loneliness was as vast as the desert yet she was not unhappy.