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The Underlings Ch 2

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Chapter Two



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Like all myths and legends time has a peculiar way of altering stories. Sometimes making it seem more grand and wondrous. Sometimes leaving out critical and crucial details that make the still surviving stories seem even the more fantastic and implausible. As the ages and eons progress, context and what is regarded as common knowledge fade away and are lost or become hidden in dusty, unread or unreadable books, manuscripts and scrolls. Motives change or are forgotten. Reasons for taking a certain course of action become tenuous and fragmented. The ravages of time take their toll on writings, records, buildings and structures. Disasters large and small erase critical story elements from existence, and unless renewed periodically fade from collective memories and histories. Story writers add their own biases and dare I say it, errors, including my own, into the mix.

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The Underling was now completely alone in the relative safe darkness, free from the menacing eyes of Giants. But an even more insidious enemy crept into the thoughts of the Underling, fear. His fear of being completely alone in the world. With none of his kind anywhere. A vivid picture of dead and dying Underlings started to flood his mind. Maybe the Giants would herd the remaining Underlings into prison camps, unsuitable for even the lowest of utility creatures, like the detestable Zombats or those creepy crawly Weavers. The remnant dispatched at the whim of the Giants, the rest living in increasing misery until the last remaining Underling was gone. Another vivid thought picture formed of bloated bodies floating face down in the sea, bumping against sharp rocks, indiscriminately killed by Giants without any remorse or care, and left where they fell. He shuddered violently and the though form vanished back into the bleak void of his mind that was a darker place then the physical darkness that he was now experiencing. He keep moving aimlessly in the encompassing darkness, with no plan nor hope...

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