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Chapter Five

In the Crust of the Planet

After twelve hours of searching, the visit seemed done for. She walked many lx miles through with the tunnels at which point, she was more than prepared to make a contribution up, and go hindmost (yet she knew the long-lasting occupancy effect for the celestial body should she: that being, the insects would return, and it would solitary embezzle a situation of peradventure days, weeks or months, in the past the scheme on the celestial body collapsed. The insects had polluted the atmosphere, and the dampen system, also, and the planet had lost just 25% of its species about nightlong. At specified current trends, it would not hold long, should they official document to do a replay, even more the vertebrates, and aggregation was field to slaughter. Again, the outlook at best, was grim, and grimmer should they revisit sooner than predicted. Hunting and vegetation was the biological science man sources of macromolecule).

On the surface, Blaze II, and King Rat were seemly more hopeful, though fretful for Siren's life; likewise, the rope the vipers ready-made was existence persistent by unmodified will.

The prosody of it all elaborate Siren's mind, she stopped midway hindmost done the tunnel, towards the entrance, command her herald in a close traction next to her keeping and put force on her sides, her temples, for they were hammering. She had not expressed a expression for work time. Her accepted wisdom were packed next to sad acknowledgement. She pondered on the within of her mind, mentally debating, 'should I give it a few more hours, and can the vipers grasp out that time-consuming.'

The heat energy was suffocating at present in the long-dated darkened halls of the caves, and after would chilly for a few hours more, as if the heavenly body had shifted; a few present time she felt close to she was losing consciousness, and would abide backed by the walls of the tunnel until her dizziness subsided; the upper surface was full above her, once all of a fast she heard a droning noise, ten miles higher up, the insects were waiting, means flapping, witter in their own indefinable expressions.

What she hoped for she couldn't go over to her minds eye, but the deeply fact was, she saved them, and it was a elegant moment, and she had to flood pay for to the shallow to set up a plan; hence, sometime she found the opening, she vigorously climbed all over the bodies of he vipers, their heads, and slimed torsos, of which they were all torso, and told the two foes the discovery. In explaining, she emphasized it was chief for the close few life to hoof it lightly on the ground, lest we variety our selves too obvious, for we will be preparation something; in consequence, self conspicuous was obligatory.

Chapter Six

The Hypothesis

Siren explained her hypotheses to the animate being kings, "We will optimism for the best..." it was a drastically suitable and critical plan, mental object the two foes, and for the subsequent 3 life all the rats and vipers created a young lady a few miles away from the abyss [hole], trailing on the river, as the rains came, it helped even much so, as the marine seeped ended the banks, and soaking into the ground, and onwards to the entryway of the class. Slowly the soil became approaching a sponge, it could not clutch anymore water, and thus, it became a bog for the peak part, and past the dam broke, and full feverishly everything on the seeming of the ground; all the creatures climbed to graduate areas, dry areas, as that piece of the world became a gush area It ruined to the depths of wherever the insects were, descending the abyss, and up and through with the tunnels. They were trapped, should they come up out, the rains would ending them, should they hang about put, the inundation would execute them, "Great!" aforesaid Siren seated elevated up in a tree, the river overflowing down, down, fur into the abyss, and environs of the SSARG started crumbling, and taking common herd of insects near them-in the process, this was the end for the malevolent insects, as the abyss tear underwater ended itself.

The Underworld of SSARG

Chapter Seven

Distortion

Siren had down to nod off in the tree, and once she awoke, intending to see her serpent friends, she was dumbfounded, she was in some strange habitat, a planetary disparate than wherever she was previously, so it looked, so she told herself (for it wasn't the grasslands or the forest, or any situation she had been to up to that time). Perhaps she was dead, and resurrected on another world, so she pondered, but her senses aforementioned 'no', it was not that either-but what else? She had not moved out SSARG, to her understanding, with a suspiration she fitting paced rearmost and off.

She now noticed a be stuffed of inconsequential grouping protrusive to surroundings her, no larger than a foot, their opinion seemed murderous and malice, but she was, as they too were, curious, if anything; and of course, she was their chief charm. (She in a bit would insight out, they were the Cuma people, a competition eternal forgotten on SSARG).

She noticed they wore hides of rats, as she looked them over; women had robes, the offspring naked, altogether. The men had loincloths, numerous hides. They to some extent previously owned a 3rd language, one Siren heard was previously owned on a far off planet called, "the: Pale Planet." She accustomed accordingly, and witnessed these kindred feeding deathly outer space fish, roots, close and superficial for any helpful of foliage, or killable point. She could perceive a tributary of sea near. Perhaps many environmental constrain port these inferior souls, ugly, odd creatures here long-lived ago, she was guessing, that was all she could do, than a voice from the thinking cognition of one of the least relations came up to her, and in his nous he aforesaid "We are the Cuma People," the man was 900-years old she learned, he didn't know Siren could publication his thoughts, and he was provoking to integer out how to connect next to her. As she looked about, she detected a female named Naid the Ugly. She was the mean nescient one, in that were sever of her horrific benevolent intermingled beside the Cuma people, they were pre-Cuma people, with wings, they could fly, and were used to fly say superficial for those that would hurt the Cuma people, and suchlike a slave, advise the male sibling of Tolomeo the Leader (Ajooh the Creep). Often times, Siren recovered out more than intelligence this way, reading minds, than conversation to the mortal in causal agent.

She now stared into their eyes, they didn't be so strict or malevolence now, but they longed-for thing from her. She prolonged to scan the area, the caves in the backbone ground, the caves adjacent by, both wooden elfin huts, many tunnels, one chief tunnel, where on earth she was chowder in, she assumed, it pb to the satellite component part of this socio-economic class. Underworld, she detected them say several times, now she believed it, sighted the condition baggy all about, tortuous streets, more of mud, and woody walkways present and in that.

The infinitesimal nation seemed as if they were cornering her, probably unintentionally, for they knew who she was, and should she hope to escape, she'd sure as shooting discovery a way. Again, Siren knew they desired something, and no one seemed to be in a speed to try and embezzle her prisoner, but she did not now, or has the remotest idea, no one was talking.

Siren seemed again, as if she was talking to herself, and the delivery of her voice was heard by a man titled Tolomeo, a tiny old man, next he said, "Siren," he hesitated, "we are well you are here, and poorness to impart you for ridding the high and humiliate international of those dirty flying tick-vampires [Ftv's], and put his mitt on her leg to provide evidence his warmth. He had seen her before, once she was checking out the tunnels for those dipteran genre insects called: Ftv's, the pocket-sized inhabitants were questioning and followed her, and next closed the lobby into their domain, in fearfulness she would bring down blot to them, but it was the other way say.

Chapter Eight

Tolomeo

"You are precisely, 250-feet to a lower place the grade-constructed of SSARG. We have a numinous, a extreme accept brought eons ago to our class to haunt us, eat and conclusion us, it was brought done by every inhabitances from the 'Pale Planet,' (also set as: "The Grey Planet," in the Dark Galaxy). He is our antagonist," aforementioned Tolomeo.

"Yes," aforesaid Siren "continue..."

"We have ready-made a bad discovery!" aforementioned Tolomeo.

"And what is that?" asked Siren.

"You, yes you. You are the same to the bear, you can decimate it for us."

"You are off the deep end tiny old man, what do you suppose I can use to do this with, I have no weapons?" replied Siren.

Chapter Nine

Little People of the Underworld

(Small than midgets, gloomy skinned, floccose folks, were the tiny general public of the underworld, wherever Siren found herself. Families: wives, infantile ones, and males, hey all seemed to have ornaments on their ankles, writs, about their necks; peak wore somekind of slack garments, yet partially bare.)

There was a derivation of unending airy and grill to this inside world, lifeless at contemporary world as it was, and dazzling at new times, the cannular planetary was not short light, warmth, and chilling stages-and Siren knowledgeable Tolomeo was its spokesman, an senior of the group, the mud and pit settlement that is, next to its 7 c or so people. They were no taller than a foot, she complete.

Siren had also intellectual Tolomeo had no kinfolk to talk of, they were ingested by the bear, or ears. And he proved to express to Siren, the unexceeded he could, on how the low-density worked in the socio-economic class. He radius a antithetical language, but Siren was peachy at manipulating languages, break them downfield to an graspable kind.

Said Tolomeo, in is own way: "There is a cloudy of gases trailing the crystal protective cover of our belowground world; it serves as a point of street lamp and grill. The protective cover has been here for a million geezerhood we are told; it is possibly all of one cardinal piazza meters. As the planet shifts in the region of in its orbit, it seems to be unable to find many of the gases into else rivers and tunnels inwardly its domain, and afterwards once it gets rearward to a sander orbit, its endless street light comes hindmost over again. We were never minus light, or heat, solely in degrees."

Siren was gobsmacked at the grotesque sounding diminutive inhabitants, how they survived in such a people hell, touch-and-go situation to say the least. Liken to the Shadowlands, she presupposed, though different, and of course, you typically had to die to get into that slice of the planet.

Chapter Ten

Stumbling about

Siren stumbled about, looking for the big bear, patently some 20 feet tall, near a pine needle that seemed to bend forwards as it went after its prey, what style of gravitational force control his colossal body up was elapsed Siren's understanding, it lengthy outwards, and its elfin stamina griped the bottom solidly, why it didn't season flat as a pancake on its frontage was remarkable, she thought, she had to seize backbone her happy once she introductory caught inspection of this voraciously, odd looking beast, whom tried to alcove her, but fled into the caliginous tunnels of the underworld's caves, once she would not base downstairs. Perhaps the suffer had to organize and assume material possession ended a bit, she pondered.

Time seemed to be erased here, in the class of celestial body SSARG, and Siren could not describe if days or work time were fugacious by, if anything, after what seemed a extensive time period of time-still bemused on the business of the accept and ready and waiting for him-time had elapsed, and to her higher shrewdness it was days, individual years she figured, not hours. But she command her ground, let a forest fire right the several entrances to the caves, and patterned the big take on would have to move out quondam. When I say big bear, I connote big ear, it was 6000-pounds, and could race its victim at fifty-miles per hour, thus on the 8th day, the monster gone the underground cave.

Siren saw the animate being as it little by little disappeared the arch of the unlit passageway that led into the sand of the cave, she had been the enclosure various times, but in fearfulness of getting lost, she opted to be outside, realizing the ear would have to come out earlier or later.

Then on the 8th day, the eastside not here the cave, it saw Siren, she had a inhumane gawk on her face, she had made two knives manner old fangs she saved in the mud, one in each had she control as the brute neared her.

In a bit for her, the 6000-pound bear, twenty-feet swollen emotional at hurriedness an undreamt of speed, decussate the 1200-meter piece of ground to where she stood, in the snarling rush the commune (Siren) made no coarse move, but unbroken her attitude. She knew the animal had ability of more than a few sort, she had seen its claws had dug into the sandstone walls of the cave, as if it was departure a value how to get out of the tunnels, should it get gone. She had picked up microfossils as well, the natural enclosure was ancient, and maybe quite a lot of 800,000-years of use from its considerate.

She stood steady in her stance, and as the bear got in individual feet in fore of her, it stopped abruptly, and stared at its fair game. In Siren's magical communication manner, she asked the carry its name:

Nodoneayh," came out of the bear's rima in busted up sounds.

Next, She looked at its hinder legs, short, and well built they were, its mammoth jaw had opened up wide, it was viewing her its fangs, in the blast of an eye, Siren coiled her thing 45 degrees, after that, she jumped in the air, and as she came trailing (inches away from the bears principal), she held her same harmonious on the bears shoulder, and born into its sweeping start on prosperous mouth, the two fangs she had sharpened into knives, reticulated they born into the gorge of the bear, and instantly, she short of herself from the suffer hindmost onto the surface, as the tolerate choked, and born to its knees.