Obelisk

Sleep slowly releases it's grasp. Your eye's fight off their weariness. Light pours all around, but you are covered in a cool shade. You peer up into the sky expecting to see the sun. Your vision is blocked by an obelisk stretching to the heavens. Rising from where you spent the night, dust drops from your clothes and is hurried off by the wind. Facing the structure you slowly walk backwards, looking to see where the sky begins. Unable to see the top, you step out of the shadow to see around the obelisk. An intense burning overtakes you. Lungs aflame. Back into the shadow you fall. You lay there for a moment gasping, trying to reclaim you breath. You look around and notice the landscape. Everything in sand, everything but what's in the shadow. Here grass grows in a lush display of green. Here you are, bound to the shadow. Safe in a world scorched.