Our Little Gods 1: RABATEA, the first World of the Daughters.

Chapter 10.

They found the little boy on the beach, sitting on a smooth patch of sand. There was a thin long stick by his side, he was looking at the reflection of the sky on the waves. The sand all around him was covered with drawings he had sketched with the tip of the stick, the repetitive pattern seem to change subtly and evolve from one side to the other. His arms around his knees and his head sunk in his shoulders Maasil looked even smaller than he normally is.

Terey, Farenn and Oneg were walking towards him striding across the beach as if they had purpose and motives, they came up to the edge of the drawn sand and stopped.

"You two go to the sea and let me do this." Oneg told his brothers and he walked on the carefully drawn symbols towards the boy at the center.

"hey, Maaz. I haven't seen you in a couple of days, what have you been doing?"

"Stuff."

"You alright?"

"Yeah, thanks."

Listen, we tried to ask the guys here to explain stuff to us but as soon as the monks start speaking we fall asleep. We tried one of the acolyte but he acted like we were freaks for the bottom of the ocean, so we let him go before he pissed himself. Can you help us understand some of the stuff that happened?"

"Yeah sure." Maasil said and he blew his nose. "what do you need to know?"

Oneg reached out and gently took his chin in his hand to turn the boy's face towards him.

"You have been crying, do you want to tell me what happened? Do you need help from us? You know Farenn would even fight Limero if he rough handled you."

"Yeah, I know how he is. Don't worry it ok. I just miss my friend, I thought I would get to see him when I would be back."

"Is that the guy you told me about? I thought he was meant to be here long before you did?"

"What was it you wanted to know?"

"Let's go back in before Terey goes for a swim and we have to spend an hour trying to get him to come back, ok?"

"Deal."

The four of them walked back first to the cottage but Maasil took them to a different building where there were documents that could help.

"What the heck is that teteredidon stuff, do you know?" Farenn asked.

They had gathered round a table in a room full of shelves containing volumes and piles of loose squares of linen. Maasil was struggling to lift one of the largest volume from a cabinet. The ornate doors had been locked but the boy had pulled a chair and reach to the feet of statue and retrieved a small brass key. Farenn stood to help him with the large item and they placed it on the table.

"Are you supposed to know where that key is, Maz?"

"No, not really. But no one pays any attention to a little novice silently reading in the corner of the room." The boy brushed his curls off his face and smiled at then as if it was the most natural thing in the world."

"Limero sure has a bad influence on this little guy." Terrey said laughing.

Maasil started flipping the squares of linen rapidly and stopped at a particular one upon which a large illustration spread.

"It's actually called the Tetrahedron of Agasha's daughters. Most people who know about it believed, until two days ago, that it was an intellectual construct, a symbol. The image of the unity of the Sisters and their link the mother of all, Agasha. It is represented as you can see... and as you have been shown by the wanderer as a perfectly regular pyramid with three golden sides and a darker base. We are being told here that the base is the mother, Agasha, and that the sides are the goddesses. There are pages and pages of contemplations on the perfect harmony of the Tetrahedric shape written by Marakal Pereouste but this here is the reproduction of the only original picture we have."