This is the story of Anahata from the time when it was first begotten unto Koraverd.

The Story of Anahata

The story of Koraverd and Anahata cannot be separated. Before Kevin the Green, Anahata was presented unto me by a higher power. That is when the story really begins, and this is how it went.

I was kidnapped by a band of river rats when I was traveling through Springfield, Missouri. I was of course well acquainted with these river rats as I had once been a river rat with them, and there is no getting the rat out of the river. Or is that, the river out of the rat? Either way.

They took me to the wilderness and provisioned me with a canoe and the essentials for surviving on a river with no access to anything but sand and water. We camped at a gravel bar we call the High Rise, a place that has been swarmed by these same rats for many years.

On the third day, after out fishing a sasquatch and poisoning a couple of sibling trolls with moonshine to the point where one smashed their salmon with a stick, we were settled into the slow life of living on a gravel bar. The sun was hot and the water was cool.

Just around the bend from the high rise was a protected eddy in the stream where a small cave came out of a cliff wall and the water circled in a way that would keep a person floating from going into the current and being washed downstream. So, I slept on a floaty, circling round and round with my straw hat over my face.  I occasionally looked up through the hat to see the light passing through the canopy of the trees overhead. Then I was awoken when my floaty came into contact with the cliff face. I opened my eyes, and through my straw hat, I could see it. 

There, wedged into the face of the cliff by a flood, was what remained of a cedar sapling after having been pulled up by the root wad and shaped in a flood or two or more. It was placed just at arm reach above me and I immediately claimed it as “River Booty”. It did not take me long to realize that this was much more than just normal river booty. After returning to shore, the staff immediately presented its usefulness as it aided me in climbing up the shore to the High Rise.  The balance was amazing, and if fit neatly into my hand as if it was meant to be.