Once a year there is great gathering on Dorian's World. An elder from every region is sent and there is a huge festival. The old stories are retold and beads are traded. Sometimes decisions are made and disputes settled.
The elders chant the stories of arrival and the first people, and the decision to live with the land. They share tales that have been handed down for generations.
On this particular occasion, there was a new story to tell. The story of how people from the old heavens came to the new world and the two became one again. It was a story of unity and new beginning.
The old woman who recited the story threaded it onto a necklace of beads, and the other elders copied her designs. By the time the ice walls had moved out from the north, the tale would have spread across the planet. A new meaning would be established and the people would know who they were again.
At the end of the gathering the elders stood and looked to a distant star. It had always been their heavenly home but now they knew it as a place where their brothers and sisters were still living. The clan was bigger now and they belonged to each other. All was well.
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Fragments 1: Devolution Landing
Science FictionA team of archeologists are sent to investigate the site of a old mystery, but they don't have much time to complete their work as diplomacy begins to fail... What can they learn before the fighting starts... How did people arrive on Dorian's World...
