The Romance of Lotania - An Under Gods Story (Rough Draft)

Chapter 6: Interrogation

Chapter 6: Interrogation

Notes, journals, and books were scattered about, surrounding the table that held Gosheven's lifeless corpse. G'monga had been shuffling through her files for some time trying to figure out exactly what this creature on her table was. "They are creatures whose brains function very similar to that of a Lotanian's. They developed languages and cultures the same as we have. They are even shaped like us, even if inferiorly so," she pondered, knowing full well she had heard of beings like these in her younger years. She pulled a heavy book decorated in sharp black feathers off the shelf and checked its contents.

"To whom may be reading this, I preface this journal by stating that the information I am disclosing was never meant for ear outside of the Leviathan Tribe, and if ya were to still consider the requests of the Great Leviathan law then ya know it shouldn't have been written at all," the excerpt read. G'monga skipped through a few of the pages, not wanting to concern herself with anything other than what was important here and now. She flipped to a page that showed a drawing similar to identical shape to Gosheven.

"There ya are." she smiled.

And so it read...

"It had to have been a hundred years ago when even I was just a beginner to life as a Leviathan. The Great Leviathan called us all into his room to tell us a tale about the outside world. He spoke of many things, I mean for the longest, most of us had believed that Lotania was all there was or if there was anything at all it had to be more ice. But there he was telling us about an orb with six other landmasses that were separated by these masses of water he called oceans. Why at first we thought he was drunk if that were even possible, but then he starts telling us about these beings who lived beyond the ice. 'Humans,' he called them. He said they were like us for the most part except they had no outer lungs like us and they were physically inferior. But even though they seemed like nothing to fear, he was not so confident in our abilities. He told us that their minds were poisoned by the influences of his siblings and nothing could be seen as beneath them. They enslaved members of their own species, polluted their own lands, slaughtered children, and those are the atrocities they bring upon those that by which they commonly descend so just imagine what they would do to us. If the time comes when the humans find Lotania, destroy them."

"Okay... let the session begin," G'ravek hastened and yet not a single one of their lips or lack thereof seemed to move. And how could they? This was the first interaction between the yorgumites and humans that wasn't absolutely rooted in conflict.

"They're here to question us I'm guessing?" Aapti spoke.

"Yeah," Eyawa answered with no attempts to sound calm in the slightest.

"Uhmm did something happen back there?" Orunya asked.

"Nothing I feel like talking about." she dismissed with scornful look planted on D'shanka the like of which answer with an expression that begged her to be less obvious.

"Well in that case, could you translate something for me then?" Aapti asked

"What do you want to ask?"

"I want an equal exchange of information, a conversation rather than an interrogation."

"You do know they'd kill us if they suspected us trying to pull a fast one. What's your angle here?"

"Well if the goal is to provide them with a reason to not kill us then I think I might be able to sweeten them up and besides, this is the first time we get to talk to them and with all the potential information a dialogue could bring, I just don't want that to get ruined."

"What's it saying?" G'ravek asked.

"She wants to know if this can be a mutual exchange of information." Eyawa translated.