Chapter 57 - The Path Before Us
Scene: While guarding the door to the Judicial Chambers, the guards are surprised and excited to see Rey coming up the stairs.
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Scene: After saluting her guards, Rey activates the droid with her glove. As she does, it comes swooping in behind her. Immediately the guards take a defensive position against it.
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Rey: It’s ok, it’s being controlled by me. It won’t harm you.
Scene: Apprehensively, the guards resume their posts, opening the door and allowing her entrance to the chamber.
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Scene: As the doors are opened, the Council members are astonished to see Rey walking through.
Queen: Rey?! But how?
Aiko: You did it! You found a way!
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Scene: As Rey enters the room, the guards cautiously watch the droid go by. Aiko then runs around the table and gives Rey a hug, unphased by the droid that has now flown to the center of the table. The Council on the other hand are gasping at the sight of it.
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Queen: Rey, what is that thing?
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Rey: That’s a multi-purpose droid. I assume that Aiko as already filled you in on some of what we experienced below. This droid is going to show you the history of how we came to be on this planet, I’ll take you through the Orc rebellion, how our race got split in two and how we ended up living up here. Then I’ll show you who the leaders are below that have been warring against each other for over a thousand years.
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Rey: Prior to living on this planet, we dwelled on a beautiful planet, a million light years from here. But the sun of that planet was preparing to go supernova, explode. Before that would happen, the Atruvians, who we refer to as the Ancients, sought out another hospitable planet to move us to. At the time there were three races living on our planet. The Elves, Pixes, and the Orcs and Goblins. The Orcs and Goblins, a more violent and brutish species, lived in a separate region than the rest of us, so interaction with them was minimal at best. But once we were all moved here, a planet mostly comprised of ocean, we were all forced to live together.
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Rey: But I’m getting ahead of myself.
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Rey: After the explosion of our sun, as you can see, it left our planet destroyed.
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Rey: We owe our existence to the Atruvians, who have watched over this galaxy and the many species under their care.
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Rey: As I was saying earlier, there are currently two leaders below at war with each other. The first, from the Orc species, is Vulsa, queen of the Orcs.
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Rey: The second, from our species, is Ellia.
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Rey: She’s not so much of a queen, but more of a military leader. Currently Vulsa is expending all of her efforts to capture the seers. One of which was very dear to us, being Gess. Seers are a rare form of Pixies that are able to see glimpses into the future. For this very reason did Gess make an incredible sacrifice to portal down to below. She had a very strong vision of not only her death, but how her death would lead us to finding the energy module. We all owe her our very lives.
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Rey: What now lies at our feet are two paths. Either we ignore the struggles of our own race below, and go about our lives, safe and secure up here, or we make ourselves known to them, and help them win a battle they have sacrificed many elf lives for over a thousand years. I will respectably leave the council to consider which of these two paths you will have our people follow.
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Queen: Thank you Rey, for helping us to not only understand our own forgotten history, but the trials and sacrifices of our species below. Like Aiko, you have given us a tremendous amount to consider, the weight of which has not been lost on us. On a side note, it’s so very good to have you back with us, you were greatly missed.
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Scene: Rey then departs with Aiko as the Council deliberates on the decision before them.
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Rey: Regardless of which course of action the Council chooses, I have already made plans to seek out Ellia and share with her the resources of the Control Center. My conscience won’t allow me to deny such a valuable resource to be kept from her.
Aiko: I too have plans of my own, but first I need to seek the cooperation from another group.
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