The quoted line is from the poem of ‘Persephone the Greek
Goddess of Spring’ by Ingrid Jonker. The line ‘your eyes dried seeds, your body
a husk of light’ means that—in your eyes dried seeds, it is trying to point out
the daughter of Persephone, in which it symbolizes the way of her daughter
going back to the underground while her mother didn’t even paid attention to
the nature, in which she should. Your body a husk of light is trying to point
out the last time Persephone saw her daughter.
Answer:
Alexander the Great, as you'll recall, conquered the immense Persian Empire at the age of twenty-five.
The water can evaporate onto the land and keep it moist, it also can spread water to different ares around it.
The "Cold War" never involved any serious fighting.
You could go into more depth about the conflict in the story and ask how that could happen in real life.