Elementals

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You are to write how the Markites sliced the earth -- its true name is Telus -- into two huge, crumbling pieces, and we were all doomed, if our mother Gaia Telus, the earth, hadn't known it would happen, and awakened us -- the elementals -- and sent us out to the fields just in the nick of time. I was reaping in the harvest with my new wife when we saw the Markite axe-blade, twice as wide as this Earth, spinning in from deepest space.

Though gravely wounded, Gaia still had force and foresight to give her body to be transformed from one sphere into this other, much much larger but only a few hundred meters thick, with Venus moving inside you know, and Mars moving outside. It was tricky balancing the gravity, but Pitag pulled it off without much help from the humans' computers, which had suffered great damage when the Markites sliced old Earth.

The earth has been around for a long, long time even before we flattened it into a film-thin spear... no, sphere. Spread it around the sun to completely absorb... no, not completely, that was Pitag's great insight, not block old Sol, but just dim it with enough light passing through the skin to appear a dwarf, except for the ecliptic belt which is wide open to shine full strength on the outer planets -- don't want them to get cold. What? Oh, yes. We also left it open at the poles because old man Helios warned us he needs to breathe there.

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NAVBAR:Gastown / Xanadu / Tijuana Gringo / Escritores TJ / Elementals / Yucatan / Protest / Genealogos / Martha / Onyx City / Editors / Guests / Linxs

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Copyright 2001 Daniel Charles Thomas