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The Awakening
By Rudy Chase
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I don't know when it all happened, thought Grekess, a nomadic
type of
person. He was headed for the capital city of QUENTA'LL for the
festival on the world of TYRENA. The pale orange sun was going
down and
it always cast a frightening shadow in the foothills just outside
of the
broad valley of the ancients
GREKESS had heard of the stories that there were secret labyrinths
and
an underground city, that had been built ten thousand years before
of
strange weapons that flew in the sky. But these had been dismissed
as legend
by the local authorities. Some say that the builders had come
from another world
beyond QUENTA'LL. These stories always raised a good laugh at
festival times.
BUT!" on that momentous day three months ago the people
were no longer laughing.
It happened during midday. Suddenly there was a loud thunderous
explosion
in the sky or so it seemed, and as the masses of people looked
up ,they saw
a spectacular sight -- a metallic object descending out of the
cloudless sky
with a bright blue fire coming from the rear of the alien craft.
As it
descended it slowed almost to a crawl. It was about to land on
the
outskirts of QUENTA'LL.
THE throngs of people rushed to the site as fast as their two
legs would carry them.
As they reached the site the thing of metal and fire stood silently
like a sentinel. It
was a thing of graceful design. Now, the people of TYRENA are
a very curious people
who were descended from a stock of ground-dwelling hominids some
two
million years ago, and they were your basic humanoid type -- some
six and a
half feet in height on average.
AS the crowd milled around waiting for what might happen next
, a strange humming
noise was heard in the middle of the craft. Were the GODS about
to show themselves, some thought.
SUDDENLY a door in the rear of the craft opened up and a ramp
extended
itself until it touched the ground and then stopped . Two beings
in
brightly colored garments appeared in the hatchway . Aside from
being
somewhat taller than the TYRENAENS, they looked identical to the
people
on the ground and they greeted them in their own language. The
crowd
was stunned. Were these people from another part of their world
that
they did 'not know?
EPILOGUE......THAT is how it all happened. It still seems like
a dream to
Grekess, but he was adjusting to the fact that he and his people
were
not alone in the cosmos and that there were other beings on other
worlds
not known to them. The visitors called themselves EARTHMEN and
desired
trade and dialogue with the. Things were definitely looking up
for the
inhabitants of TYRENA.
The End
