Nippur the golden city of Enlil lord of the wind and God of the Sumerians sweeping down from the heavens you see it's majesty buildings of bricks and reeds the desert cradles it's walls and the light of Shamash descends upon it painting it in glory on the docks of Nippur is a young man about 16 years old a simple fisherman's son he stands on a boat on the river next to the city Nippur he was tasked by his father to catch some fish a reed net in his hand he throws it into the river as Shamash's light mercilessly warms his body the heat making him soon drenched in sweat and yet for all his effort's no fish can be captured he steps on the side of the boat desperate to catch something however he is quickly thrown off balance and falls into the waters below he tried to swim up but felt something grab his leg's from below he looked down and saw nothing he desperately tries to swim up he can feel his breath fading with each second when he could take it no more and he closes his eyes he awakes in a field of reeds a beautiful place almost like a paradise he frolics around it in joy and laughter he eventually lay's back on the ground but as he looks up he see's nothing no stars no clouds just nothing and he felt gravity shift he felt himself falling into this nothing he desperately grasped the reeds beneath him his toes buried into the earth as he holds on for dear life but the nothing was too powerful and he felt himself falling he begged for help for anyone to save him until he called out "Enlil!!! please save me!!!!" he wept his fear palpable his grasp gave out and he felt himself falling into the nothing his despair was absolute was this how he would die? no afterlife? just consumed into nothing? no it can't be and just as he thought that he opened his eyes and found himself still in the river whatever was holding him was gone as he swam to the surface resurfacing taking in deep breaths and coughing holding onto the boat and if one looked closely into his eye's you could tell something was different about them....they were pitch black