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[sabra_la_iudex.insanejournal.com]

Who: all, gods and mortals
Where: the foundations of a city
When: 199, on what should be the start of an Autumn morning
What:

[ It has been a long, hot night of work. Those about to turn in for the day, may not notice the young man in black climbing the tallest structure he can. It is just as the horizon is about to burn that he speaks. His voice is slurred slightly in the way of one who has not been able to hear themselves speak for some time, but the words carry impossibly loud and perfectly through all the city. ]

Hark, O gathered! A new tapestry has begun!

Still your hands and open your ears to this prophecy is spoken to both god and mortal in tandem.

Our lady has put aside the threads of red fire and graying earth.

She weaves now of a deep, wide blackness, though which we are the only true light.

Each nation shall bind together, making a hundred vessels and a hundred more.

In this way we will be delivered from the wrath of the mother of our father.

But there will be a heavy price for this salvation!

Cords that were once unending, shall too meet sheers.

The very frame on which all things were woven must itself be shattered- each piece.

We are burried in the cracking hills, in the boiling sea, in the holy places now dying.

Destroy us, and in our destruction shall be your deliverance.

Sabra La Tau will die. Sabra La Tau will live.

Sabra La Tau will become the stars.

Comments

Re: [MEANWHILE, SOME ASSHOLES...]

[browl.insanejournal.com]

[ hesitates ]

... It is, as always, your decision to make. My lord.

Re: [MEANWHILE, SOME ASSHOLES...]

[name-user.insanejournal.com]

You've a proposal?

Re: [MEANWHILE, SOME ASSHOLES...]

[browl.insanejournal.com]

It is nearly always wise to heed Kolotha's weavings. There is historical precedent for that as well.

Re: [MEANWHILE, SOME ASSHOLES...]

[name-user.insanejournal.com]

[ HAHA YOU SAY THAT LIKE I DON'T KNOW IT :| ]


Have you a proposal?

Re: [MEANWHILE, SOME ASSHOLES...]

[browl.insanejournal.com]

[ urk. he bows his head deeply. ]

I - only that spaceships are possible. My lord. And that perhaps it would be wise to allow them to make that attempt.

Re: [MEANWHILE, SOME ASSHOLES...]

[name-user.insanejournal.com]

[ rubs at his eyes ]

So they make the attempt, and all chance to build the Sacred City slips away. What then?


Humans, while simple, inferior creatures are... well. They-


Certainly I don't need to spell it out for you, man!

Re: [MEANWHILE, SOME ASSHOLES...]

[browl.insanejournal.com]

...

The Sacred City is the safer option, I estimate that it would last several hundred years, given what you have shown me of its design.

Re: [MEANWHILE, SOME ASSHOLES...]

[name-user.insanejournal.com]

Of course it would. My order enforced perfectly, there's nothing that could possibly be safer!

Re: [MEANWHILE, SOME ASSHOLES...]

[browl.insanejournal.com]

[ hesitates. hesitates really hard. ]

What about after those hundreds of years are done?

Re: [MEANWHILE, SOME ASSHOLES...]

[name-user.insanejournal.com]

[ reloads his pipe ]

Re: [MEANWHILE, SOME ASSHOLES...]

[browl.insanejournal.com]

Her wrath has always eased before now, but - She has never been this angry.

Re: [MEANWHILE, SOME ASSHOLES...]

[name-user.insanejournal.com]

Hrm. Won't much matter one way or another, if there's nothing left when it abates.

Re: [MEANWHILE, SOME ASSHOLES...]

[browl.insanejournal.com]

... Yes. The ships, at least, would perhaps bear fruit, in time. A hundred new worlds in your name.

Re: [MEANWHILE, SOME ASSHOLES...]

[name-user.insanejournal.com]

Hrm. Let's not get ahead of ourselves just yet. But I will have a word with my wife about this shattering business.

Re: [MEANWHILE, SOME ASSHOLES...]

[browl.insanejournal.com]

[ blinks ]

Shattering?