Art and Extraordinary Things

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"Stay within the ringed structure of stone until the sun rises." This is but a single part of a larger story. This may be read as a single short story.... Although not necessary to do so ... Some find fuller experience if read aloud. ----------------------------------------------------- A sinuous shadow stealthily slithered across the southeastern most portion of the decaying remains of a yarn(s) dead forest. This same sinuously slithering shadow shifted to an elongated greyish black coloured serpent as it left the yarn(s) dead forest. This forest was one of many that the invaders had slaughtered. Massive rowan stands had been thrice cut then were uprooted. False fig (sycamore), ash and elder were thus similarly treated. 37 forests had been desecrated, desiccated, fueled then fired. Nearly any creature which had so much as touched the remains of these forests contracted a rotting of the flesh then perished. Mostly only insects dared to risk entering these places of death. ----- In simplest terms, tabbim were / are a felidae (cat like) people. Tabbim achieved what others have sought / attempted to do. They found a way to increase their overall resistance to illness. Sounds great in theory. Does it not sound like greatness ? The problem was that what can best be explained by saying they sought to achieve greatness by the embracing of gress. In their efforts to more fully embrace gress they: became short sighted; failed to conduct in depth investigation(s); looked past or failed to ask what result of x + y might be. Some suspected that some that fully embraced gress might in truth be seeking a way to reduce the overall population. This latter point was widely declared to be simply conspiratorial. In the case of these tabbim whatever was the true intention of the alterations to the people as a whole were a great success. Within 10 yarn (years) nearly no one ever contracted illnesses which were thought to be associated with the spread of viruses. Within 20 yarn people began to forget that such illnesses were ever common place. Of note, there was a bit of a fertility issue. Within 40 yarn people had begun to accept as a fact that only thru the use of medical intervention was it possible to conceive. People as a whole were living longer so it was of little concern. Fortunately a solution was found. All (any) record(s) that it had not always been so were systematically rewritten or eliminated. Given enough yarn people did die, alas even fewer were born. Conceivably past a given point there would likely be no return. Thankfully some tabbim within their very core were explorers. ----- A distance away from the edge of a long ago slaughtered forest a young tabbim did what it had specifically been told not to do. The curiosity of the young tabbim had won out in the elongated debate which had taken place within her own mental construct. As she (the young tabbim) stepped fully outside to look around she heard same disembodied voice from the recorder repeat, "Stay within the ringed structure of stone until the sun rises." Having read everything that was within the stone structure she was certain that waiting until sunrise was purely precautionary. Outside, the structure emanated a soft bluish pinkish light which greatly enhanced visibility out to range of 17 cubits. She laughed silently to herself that although she was now but a toe total of cubits away from the structure she was indeed very far away from where she had been when she had entered the seemingly same structure just prior to sunset the day before. The stars overhead were laid out in their pattern(s) differently. Certainly differently than she had anticipated them to appear. Stillness and silence of the night here was nearly deafening. She softly spoke / made sound(s) of tree toads / bulb bugs. Moments passed with repeated sound(s) of toads and bugs. She determined that the sound(s) were only echoes of herself. She wondered / pondered if she was within a dream or if this was a side effect of having exited the stone structure too soon. She instinctively responded to the ready before actually hearing a sinuous wavelike motion of movement of something nearby. Sound(s) echoed all around her as had sound(s) of toads / bugs. Sound(s) continued. Something else was becoming discernible. That something else was perhaps scales in proximity to scales. Was as of yet no determining origin / direction of source. Whatever it or they were, it or they were getting closer. For the briefest of moments she debated what to do next. Opted to back step and stand near the structure of stone. Sounds(s) continued. With structure at her back she was able to discern that there were at least three distinctive sets of sounds. ----------------------------------------------------- . ... DYSBQT .