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The war.. GENOCIDE.
Erin a genuine archaeologist was one of the first to find it.
In a more remote part of the mountain area hitherto NOT explored not mapped.
She had found the entrance purely by chance. For her merit it was well hidden.
 Stepping inside to crouch down then with some relief find the passageway getting wider.
Wide enough, height OK to take her form with little restriction on movement and the air was good certainly for her needs.
A cool breeze which indicated ahead air was getting in and probably from another opening?
She walked slowly towards the faint light in the distance,
Stopping to look at the rock formation which surprised her as it was mostly crystal silicate within a granite solid rock.
Moving on she found the path was strewn with rocks that had over time fallen to the floor. Some care needed and some caution re the overhang, for any loose rocks that might fall on her.
The darkness was receding fast, as she approached the chamber.
Light enough to extinguish the Ora a light device, similar to our hand torch the smaller ones.
She enters, stops looks around and he face is filled with awe the breeze remains but from where?
Inside the chamber walls were luminiscent. NO external light needed. A soft bluish hue and the walls were smooth.. totally smooth no cracks, no jutting rocks, just a solid hewn out granite that was SMOOTH.
She ran her hands over it.. As she removed her gloves.. a tingle across her finger tips as she ran them over the smooth surface. NO dust, no grit just marble finish smoothness.
The passageway in was jagged.. rough not hewn more natural to this? The contrast was unreal. WHY was this here, was also on her mind, but the statues not as big as most she had encountered.
The sparkle from the pile of Draxetnium slips.. she ignored..
Ornate, beautifully carved and of so many things like birds, animals other ornate but strange minatures ? Sliding her rucksack her pack off her back along her arms to drop to the floor.
She carefully picked one of the items up. Solid white smooth almost glass marble finish.
The detail was astonishing,. SOOO beautiful.. she murmurs. gently replacing it where she had found it to pick up another.
WHOever you were, the ones who carved these. I have to tell you I am in love with them.
IF only I had been able to meet you to tell you in person. Looking at all of these I would be telling you how beautiful they are.
Those who come after me the worst of the worst and I will do my best NEVER to reveal this place to them. Sometimes I weep for those who are of my kind who have little or no respect for treasures such as these,.
NOT Drax or gems can ever replace these. Just pure beautiful simplicity. Worth far more than any solid Drax statue however much the weight is. Against all of these I would do without; always..
Staring at itm the writing . IF only I could read your text, understand your language but it is soo complex. I have spent time on some stone tablets that are similar but still unable to read them.
Likewise the ones who they found the natives of this planet who too the language is so complex. No dialogue no warnings just the mining and those greedily stripping away to destroy the natural habitat to feed their greed.
One of the objects she had fallen in love with. commented on as such, started to glow.
She moved closer, as it, emitted a beam of light that now. from top to bottom streamed across her.
NO sensation of it doing that, bar it being a light stream. Not bright enough to blind her just a soft blue more white hue to it. TO die away as fast as it had first lit up.
Sacred AND the ‘sentinel’ that scanned her to recognize her genuine without the GREED but seeking knowledge, understanding and respect.
Now the chamber changed colour to illuminate a corner where sat almost hovering liken to what she would have called a ‘sprite’ or faerie’ ? Mid air and features were clearly defines almost a mini version of herself.
“Welcome Erin, to our sacred place.” It rose up to glide closer to her, still hovering.
The first of your kind but not the first for us to know of your existence and what has happened since your race arrived on this planet.
YOUR race ? It will do as it pleases and NOT answer to any for what it does, what it destroys. The warnings are all around then yet they ignore them,
One of the areas they are about to enter will ignite the Trexl gases, to blow out the top of the mountain. Releasing the toxic gases, particulates; into the atmosphere and those within that mountain as was.. will die.
IT WILL spew hot lava that consumes all in its path, clouds of gas choking all in its way.. its drifting clouds of molten gas. hot enough to melt their bones to melt all of the Drax they have acquired..
WHEN you might ask will that be. and YOU would if you knew, warn them?
BUT it is about to happen and we will NOT let you leave until the final clouds have lifted.
WE WILL protect YOU so YOU can go and tell them THEIR past WILL condemn them in the PRESENT, their FUTURE. if they persist on the destruction, the rage, the fury, the greed.
THEY WILL be answerable to more than those who stand, watch and listen.
The Alacryic, the other natives of this planet, not as old as ours, are dying.
We cannot help them, we are forbidden to do so, IT IS the will of the Gods..
Your race will pay for what they have done. and what is happening NOW is just a minor demonstration of the wrath that is coming.
She saw a solid slab of rock forming with a soft almost mossy like cover.
Next to it the floor opening up a small pool of water and next to it something that looked like food:
“Refresh yourself and rest. There is nothing here that will be of harm to you.
The ambient temperature will be adjusted to stay comfortable, If you feel sleepy then close your eyes and your will find yourself asleep.
NO discomfort, relaxed, somewhat euphoric,. We have nothing to fear from you and YOUR respect for who we are.. our history our treasures.. have been noted by us.
Before YOU leave this place we will gift you a VERY SPECIAL gift. ONE that we know YOU have earned and, is not given freely. I am Ameryst, for you I am named after one of your favorite stones. though we do not have the need for titles.. I feel you would like one to refer to. “
She vanished into the ether. Erin took up the refreshments, the texture the flavours were very well received. Some reminded her of her home, her world, her own kith and kin. SO far away..
The chamber was quiet. NO NOISE NO VIBRATION.
The mine had been busy. The draxnetium had been smelted down to large blocks and other resources stacked ready for removal, A few lashes of the whips across the backs of the bodies of their slaves to remind them again of who their masters were.
Time to leave. NO. One more blast to clear the exit of all that stood in their way to bring in the transporter making the hole big enough? Some more cursing by them as the slaves almost dead on their feet were not lashed again.
The detonators, slowly set in place as two of the slaves died they threw the things at the wall up and a the higher ledge to sit on it. The one that had a pool of Trexl, a highly flammable gas seeping out of the rock..
Precautions and awareness of that had not gone unnoticed and the precautions were in place which required some serious oversight BUT here now.. that had been ignored.
The wash across the Trexl ignited it. A wall of flame that burst upwards and outwards torching everything in its path. NOT hot enough to melt most it came into contact with.
Then the wall exploded out wards.. If you could imagine burning HELL then this was it.
Hot lava spewed out where the rock fissure had cracked open.
That area has been ignored and for good reason. BELOW was OK but above it ?
They knew there was an ancient volcano, a hot bed of lava that had hitherto been contained..
Slow but sure.. Away from where they were, looking on it from the transporter craft hovering waiting to have a hole big enough for them to land it..
The Volcano the side of it blew out.. The sudden expulsion of hot air blew the transporter into dust. Hot lava and hot ash spewed up and out across the mountain area below, across the settlement. ALL in its wake buried melted to dust.
TIME? Inside that cavern TIME did NOT exist. It did NOT EBB it did NOT unlike the pool of lava; FLOW.. Thus when Erin received Ameryst again HER FORM had not changed.
“Time for YOUR gift. YOU will NEVER grow old.. YOU will NEVER age.. The gift we are allowed to bestow upon you is a desire for you to be protected to become the one who like a soul walker spreads the faith that there are alternatives, to what they did re the greed the destruction.
We grant you the gift of POLYG; the ability to look to see, to hear, any language and understand it, comprehend its essence. OURs is now YOURS to understand to learn from our history.
NOW you, will find yourself transported to a safe place a place where others like you, share your FAITH. It is on this planet BUT in the FUTURE so TIME has changed be prepared for that. “
The place had changed. Where she found herself was by a river..
Those around her smiled.. NOT surprised at all by her being there or how she had gotten there?
“Erin. good to see you..
We have a festival coming up.. Haloi.. will YOU be one of our TREATS”
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