S.O.S.
Copyright© 2009 by dak
Chapter 5
I raised an eyebrow at the old woman.
"The Dark ones?" I asked
She nodded.
"They enslave us, they take our young and work them in the mines, they are building something in the south, they have been since the beginning, this story has been passed down through the years, they came from the void." She said.
I frowned.
"the void?" I asked, still not clear on the matter.
She nodded.
"you know the space between." she said.
I shook my head.
"Never heard of it." I said frowning.
She looked confused.
"The stories say you would know, that you would come to help us!" she said, her voice taking on a panicked tone.
I held up my hands.
"Whoa, We did come to help, we just where uninformed, Perhaps you could enlighten me?" I said trying to reassure her.
She nodded, pulling out a worn book, I recognized what looked like a log book from a colonization ship, it was badly burned and worn, she started flipping through its pages.
"Our ancestors got trapped in the void, they encountered the darkness, they thought they got away, but they had unknowingly brought a part of the darkness with them. They found home but it wasn't home, so they came here, they built here, but the darkness was here too, Unknown to them, when it was strong again it came back." She said handing me the book.
"I see." I said looking through the book.
I found that it was mostly destroyed, I couldn't make out any of the original data, what she had told me had been written on the last page, I looked closely at the last page, I saw a set of longitude and latitude coordinates, I needed to contact my ship, I flipped the book over looking at the front page, it said it was from the Colony ship Intrepid, the launch date was 2110, long after we had been sent on this mission.
"What the hell" I said, I looked at her.
"How long has this been going on?" I asked.
She looked at me and thought, she pulled out a scroll, handing it to me, I un-scrolled it, it said the recording of cycles since the fall, looking it over I saw over 2000 lines marked.
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