The First Inhabitants E-Book

Ntege Shalif Walusimbi

• Herausgeber: novum publishing
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 421

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

Yours and ours is the same universe, we know your side of the story, let's tell you ours. From the Peidu, Neiger and Bras who inhabit the Soleil Planet, lies a vast range of exotic beings and wonderful planets. Learn about the Sien who live on balls of fire, the mysterious and fearsome Zeasts and the annoyingly brilliant race of the Novak. Uncover the origins of the first inhabitants of our Universe and enigma why Existence kept rebirthing our cosmos. Follow Sevo, once only known, a humble Soleil inventor, sail away from his home across the Universe in search of answers taking a journey that will lead him to the edges of the Universe and encountering powers far beyond his and your imagination.

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ISBN print edition: 978-3-7116-0195-7

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Foreword

I had a fair share of affection …

so I’m not complaining to the world or any other form of higher power … it was once. It was magical, and although it was short lived, I’m satisfied. What is left of my heart is too little to love once more, so let’s just do this.

Prologue

All images and illustrations are as from the Novak Library. In the year 44.31NY, a group of impious thieves stole from the Novak Library and what stands and exists there today is mostly recreated and not original. Some are copies of the original but most are recreations from imaginations and speculations of the Novak librarians. It is a beautiful place, their Library, Enormous pillars with small golden circles at the bottom and top parts, white high walls with golden strips and that beautiful glass ceiling. Looking up, one sees a long stretch, a belt of sparkling lights up in the sky. And of course what comes in one’s mind is the Soleil traveller Sevo, the Humans of Earth, the Novee of the Novei and the Siens of the Sien. Perhaps you should hear about their tales, all their tales, from the very beginning.

Foreword

to the random lives I lived over the years, trying to find my place on this big blue globe;

those were the days …

Volume 001

a few light years away is a planet just like ours, whose inhabitants are not so different from us,

wondering about the same things we do.

Time, 893 revolutions

place, Peidu continent

Sevo was one of the few beings on his planet who could afford to wear a revolutions counter. Everyone just wore their wood and nothing more. A few lucky or blessed beings, army leaders, and some fighters wore the revolutions counter. This is a place where being in the army is the only mighty and noble thing one can be and one can do. There are no rulers here. No kings, no royal families, and no politicians. Only the army. That is all that matters.

Through the large window frames a wind blew Sevo’s way and he turned to glance at his revolutions counter and quickly returned his eyes to his fathers device. Kim’s eyes could not lock on where to stare.

‘Are you looking for the Necks?’ the little one asked.

He gasped while rubbing his large hands through the hair on his enormous head. Then he looked back at his child and replied ‘No dear. Your grandfather was no crazy Soleil. He answered one of life’s greatest questions“, where do we come from?“’

He spoke all that in haste while looking through the skies eyes so as not to miss a thing. At this moment, he could not tell his tongue from a cookie, his mind was focused on one thing. The little one knew for a fact that his father believed, actually believed, the words he was saying. Kim tried looking at the sky, but all his mind could gather was the lights. The same lights he’d been seeing ever since he was born. He didn’t come close to the dish of water to see the images the skies eyes formed. Sevo is a very talkative Soleil. The worst. On any other day one is compelled to believe there are five people in his workroom having a conversation but he is always alone, speaking out loud his ideas and thoughts, working on his theories. If he was quiet this once, the little one thought, it must be mighty important.

Soleil beings are as tall as the trees on their planet. The planet is also called Soleil because it has never seen darkness. Never has it ever been hugged by the night. It is only five thousand light years from the cosmic fulcrum. It is covered by a cloud of stars, but the closest are major three that are spotted from any crevice on this planet.

Unlike the dead star known as Knowless, which is not even a star, Soleil planet has a dense atmosphere on which weak light rays bounce off and only the strong ones pierce through hence even though it is located in a cloud of stars, it does not have a beautiful colourful sky like Knowless. Knowless even has a night which even transforms its sky to an even more beautiful sight with all the bright spots and colours defined.

The beings here on Soleil believe the stars to be the eyes of the gods. And the gods are always watching. They never tire. These beings, the Soleil, wear wood and mould it into things to use. They use stones to build houses and as weapons, and they use glass as a means of currency for trade. Their enormous size does not hinder them from stacking stones so high and building even larger houses, but not one with a roof. The Peidu, the most civilised beings on this planet, are responsible for the making and distribution of glass coins. It is only their continent that has no army. They never pick a side during battle; they have the best farm produce and market days are entertained on their lands. On the first and top floor of a house without a roof they were standing. Sevo hurriedly pulled out the script of strings from their ends to display the wooden notes for his son to read. Kim was just three-quarters of his father’s height. He was young; only four revolutions had passed since his marriage. He looked at all the knowledge his grandfather had gathered and realised he did not know him at all. He did not know if he ought to be proud of his late grandfather or sad that the beings of this land never knew who he really was and took him for a mad Soleil. Anxious to find out what was inscribed, he held a middle string and started reading from the top wooden piece.

Time, after second eruption

Place, unknown, Soleil planet

Scars, the fastest, chased the winged creature to their trap. It tried to turn its head backwards, breathing fire towards him as its large wings drove it away from this predator. But all that was no match for the mountainous being. As he chased the winged creature, his foot hit the ground, killing all life beneath. He simultaneously ran and swung his large arms to catch the tail of the winged creature, but it was so fast. As it turned to face where it was going, Muscles hit it with a tree. He was the strongest of them all – he just plucked the tree from the ground and hit it in the winged creature’s face. It lost balance and altitude, but before it could gain either, One-eye, the craziest of them all, came at it with a front forwarding kick; it fell towards Muscles who held it by the tail and repeatedly hit it on the ground like a snake. He dragged it towards his siblings to have a family meal together. The female siblings had already lit a fire. They sat around the fire, roasted the winged creature, and ate it.

Novak Library: Sevo’s workroom with strings of his father’s stored knowledge hanging off wooden rails. The first rail spread, and the others behind it pushed to the wall.

Novak Library: A map of the land of the Soleil, Planet of the Soleil, by the 439 revolution.

Time, 893 revolutions

place, Peidu continent

Kim looked at his father in amazement; he had never imagined something like this. He slowly touched him on the shoulder and asked ‘What creature were they chasing?’

His father replied angrily ‘What are you talking about?’

‘The winged creature in grandfather’s scripts.’

‘Oohh, that was an evion, that’s what he called them. Read the strings from the top right where they start.’ Sevo’s back was bent and his head focused on the images in the water. He pointed backwards without seeing which way he was pointing. He really did not want to be disturbed.

‘What is an evion?’ The little one had another question.

He took a deep breath and then he stood up straight. He was frustrated and in his mind he had slapped the little one twice, but then it hit him, perhaps this curious lad has nothing better to do and might help him out. ‘One of the beings that first inhabited this planet. Apparently, our ancestors fed on them to extinction,’ he answered Kim’s question. ‘You start reading, I want you to help me out here.’ Sevo walked to the railings and held out the one his son was supposed to start reading from. He urged his son to read, and read his son did.

Novak Library: Sevo’s workroom with grandfather’s skies eyes. Two converging lenses at the top, a glass prism in the middle, and one diverging lens at the bottom.

Novak Library: Image portraying Eski, aPeidu, a being from Soleil planet,with a hairy body andbeards meeting at the eyebrows. ESki is a bald man but the rest of his body is hairy.

Novak Library: Image portraying Alin, a Neck, a being from a sister planet that scavenged the Soleil lands over many revolutions.

A few revolutions before the first eruption

No one will tell you a story from seventeen hundred revolutions ago because no one was there. A time before you beings learned to separate elements of the planet let alone communicate with sounds.

But I …

I was here at a much earlier time than that. A time before the death of the first Soleil.

THE FIRST TIME.

It was a beautiful time; we animals and plants lived in peace and harmony. The clouds were just a few elephant feet from the tree tops. There were rainbows, butterflies, and all kinds of beautiful plants. We elephants could see the evions fly through the clouds, playing with each other, as the dinosaurs tried to catch them with their long necks. Everything was beautiful.

There were thirteen statues around the land, shaped like you beings, but larger and taller. We all believed they were our guardians and the stars were the eyes of the gods. One of the statues had been cracked around the eye by an evion’s tail. It was trying to fly past the guardians, and as it struggled, it hit its tail in the statue’s eye. No evion ever tried something that stupid again. Something prevented that evion from flying past the lands; it could not even get to the beach. None of us could.

One time, from the largest god’s eye came a massive energy that hit the planet. It was so strong that one of the statues was thrown away from its position, as if blown by a wind. It landed onto a young dinosaur and killed it on impact, but then the large dinosaurs stepped on it and crushed it into pieces as they were trying to flee the energy blast.

The first statue was lost …

Whatever had angered the gods to send down such a thing? It was the same energy that awakened the first Soleil from their statue form, and they began to turn into living things. We were hiding in some kind of cave when a big foot stepped in front of us. Then the being walked away. When we came out of hiding, the clouds were as high as you now see them. The planet was never the same.

It was at this moment that the evions began to breathe fire, and hot magma started sprouting from beneath the mountains. The second statue, just after they all had just gained life, walked into the hot magma. It was the first eruption this world had ever seen. He didn’t know what it was, he kept shouting, as magma jumped from the young mountain falling on him, and there he died. The second statue was lost

Only eleven survived the process, and they began to live together as they were the only ones of their kind that ever existed. With time, they learned to cure hunger, communicate with signs, and swim in the ocean. These Soleil, for a few revolutions, lived in peace with each other as they hunted the evions, dinosaurs, large fish, and anything they could eat, but when they discovered they had hearts, emotions, and reproductive organs, everything changed.

Time, 893 revolutions

place, Soleil planet

On Peidu continent,Sevo’s revolutions counter was about to make five revolutions. That is how long it took for their planet to meet a sister planet; only a few moments were left.

Kim asked him ‘How is this going to help us?’

He responded calmly this time ‘Your grandfather was working on something.

I need us to finish it. It will help us fight the Necks.’ ‘If it is in his notes, we only have a few moments left.’

‘It won’t help us now,’ Sevo shook his head and made clear what his son had realised not. ‘No … no, that’s right. It holds the answer to our future.’

‘You mean my grandfather didn’t make this stuff up? He actually talked to elephants?’ its like Kim had come prepared with a set of question in a certain order. This time he did not just form the words, his whole body was begging for answers.

‘Yes, my dear boy. He was a Soleil who loved nature and nature loved him back. He met the elephant’s elder who shared the story with him, for the survival of the Peidu, or maybe all of the Soleil.’

‘What about the statues we built? Who else did the elephants talk to? There must have been someone who spread the word and led to the construction of the statues we have; three in our land, four on Neiger continent, and four on that of the Bras.’

‘Of course it, the elephant, must have talked to someone before; that’s why I have more trust in his notes. The clouds started to scatter as the planets were moving closer to one another. The Peidu have been and always will be against violence. Every time, they ran from their stone houses and hid in caves they had built for this particular situation. However much the Necks searched, they never found a soul here. But because they are violent beings, it would pain them a lot if at least they did not try to destroy a few things. They did it to ease their conscience. And they destroyed whatever they could. They also raided the farms but they could not carry much food home. But that does not mean they left any crops in the garden. They would rather destroy the crop than just leave it behind. Knowing this was a continent with no fighters but only empty structures and free food, all the weaklings in the Necks army were sent to this side. All the new army recruits were sent here. To see what it looks like down here, to exercise their freedoms, and fight the rocks and crops.’

Novak Library: Image from speculations by Novak librarians of the Necks falling down on Soleil planet.

On Neiger and Bras continents

The Neiger and the Bras were not known to cower from a fight. But the Necks have always been better fighters than their opponents. The Necks smoked a special leaf. They would collect it in piles, light it, and push deep bamboo stems into it to inhale its smoke. Yes, they were a little larger than the Soleil but what they did not know was that their smoking did them no good. Something changed in their bodies as they jumped from one planet to another planet. As soon as they stepped foot on the land of the Soleil, they were stronger than the beings that were on their own planet. As they threw their ropes up from their planet to drop down to the planet beneath, the Soleil quickly got in position with their spears and stones ready to hit whatever came from the skies.

Eski picked raw maize from the basket and took a large bite of the corn with its cob. His army seated down in a semi-orderly fashion, scattered about the place ate after him. Chewing the corn did not stop this legendary fighter from shouting at the top of his lungs. He greeted the lot, loud enough for the hundreds at the back rows to hear. He clearly sees one of the men one of the men shaking, unable to lift the corn straight to his mouth. To turn his eyes a far side, he sees another scratching his head as if wanting three wishes out of his tight curled hair. He raised his voice even higher to scare the fear out of them. The Neiger army commander Eski shouted to his army, courageous words, about how this time could be different, how they were supposed to be strong and fight for their lands, wives, and children, how this was their time, their first time to beat the Necks. A few maize grains and particles flew out of his mouth as he spoke, portraying a furious Soleil. Well, he was a great fighter. No doubt the best that had ever walked on this planet … For all the time since they had known the Necks existed, they had never won. Not once. And even with glorious words from such a great man, a few men still had fear in their hearts.

The moment one Neck was spotted in the sky, they began throwing rocks and spears at him. But so high were they and close to the clouds, not many could raise their stone and spear to reach the falling being. Slowly, the number of falling beings grew that they covered part of the cloud, creating a large shadow which cleared with the Necks stepping their feet on Soleil soil. The moment they stepped on the ground, they started slashing down anything they glanced at. Something happened on the battlefield; it was like someone tapped Eski on the shoulder and whispered in his ear to watch. He stopped fighting and he watched what was happening.

The Necks fought in pairs with such finesse and skill that the Soleil could not grasp. They kicked, punched, cut, and slashed whatever that was in their way. Eski is a great warrior, but even he, one being, could not beat the whole army.

When the time came, the Necks got hold of their ropes. They did not have to climb much; when they were all on their ropes, the planets moved apart and the atmosphere separated, and gravity took them back home. Eski was still standing, watching what was happening. His men, one by one passed by him, gathering their spears on a pile, and they walked past him again collecting their dead.

A few men went to gather wood to prepare a fire on which the fallen ones were to be burned. Their army leader Eski, with bruises and cuts, sweating and bleeding, spat on the ground, looked up at the bright sky, and in a low voice he prayed to the god’s eye “evumme du nimo ’Olu”

A Soleil direct translation would be, “reveal to us a way creator.”

This great giant begged the gods eye to grant them a path to the Necks’ planet. All he ever wished for was a path; he’d make them say farewell to their dead as they did every five revolutions the planets met.

On Peidu continent

The Peidu had no one to bury since they never participated in any battle. They are a land filled with peaceful beings. Even when the Neiger were fighting with the Bras, the Peidu never participated or chose a side. All the Necks did here was destroy their markets, farms, and a few simple structures. This was something they had got used to, and they just put their structures back and went on with their lives. Sevo and his son came back after the Necks had left. They tried to put their place back together and cleaned everything.

On Neiger continent

Eski gathered his men; they had all cleaned off on the northern shores of their continent. They sat on the ground and ladies brought baskets of meat, fruits and corn for them to eat, and gourds of water. They only removed the husk and ate the grain with its cob.

He started speaking ‘I love you Ejum, I love you Mobet, I love you …’ as he pointed to his men, one after another.

His eyes started getting watery as if he was about to cry.

‘But every time the Necks visit us, I have fewer brothers than I had before. I am sure the Bras are feeling the same pain. Only the cowardly Peidu hide like baby elephants during time of war. Indeed, the old sayings are right, they were raised by slow stupid elephants.’

A few men tried to smile, sheathing their pain and sorrow.

‘We need to fight with the Bras if we are to live and see our children play. I only have daughters, and I don’t want to wait for the day when I am old and cranky, and they have to hold stones to throw at the Necks.’

Someone said in a low voice ‘What about spears?’

Eski replied ‘I said I only have daughters,’ and the lot of them laughed. Even Eski laughed, but only for five seconds; then his face turned red again.‘My wife thinks my spear is the same weight as her. It is too heavy for her to carry. How will she throw it at a Neck while he is still in the air … before he lands on the ground? We all know they are hard to kill when they land. They fight in pairs; we should do that, one Neiger and one Bras, fighting together against one Neck. We will beat them … we have to beat them.’

A man who was on the front row said ‘Our lands don’t bring good corn, but the Bras would rather burn it than give it to us. Even in times of war. My son had gone in the river to collect some fish, and they threw arrows at him; he can’t walk. He will never walk. I’m afraid he will never find a woman, he’s always at home, he has never been to Peidu for the market. He has never met any women; they killed him and left me his shell.’

Eski closed his giant eyes slowly, and a tear fell as they were fully closed, and he said this with his eyes closed ‘We should kill ourselves, not prolong our misery, if we are not fighting with the Bras. Someone should throw an arrow at me; I want to end my suffering.’ And he didn’t move as another tear fell from his eye.

After a moment, he opened his eyes and all his men were standing in front of him, and one of them asked ‘What should we do?’

He answered ‘Follow me, we are going to the Bras’ land right now.’

Volume 002

You are now but your country is today. You were born to it. It’s friends and fouls, it’s debts and wars.

A man can forgive and forget, but a country can’t.

Time, 894 revolutions

place, Neiger continent

Eski’s men started walking slowly past him, heading east. His best friend Jash was standing at the back. He tried to find his way through the marching army to meet his leader. After pushing through and reaching him, with anger and astonishment he cried out ‘Are you crazy?’ He held his face with both arms and barked at him.

Eski had not one shred of emotion in his face and this terrified his dear friend a lot more. They locked eyes and waited for everyone to pass, and when they were alone, Jash continued to speak. ‘Have you forgotten that the woman you have been laying with all this while was supposed to be Yeni’s wife? Now let me explain this to you slowly and clearly so that you may understand it

… the kid began fantasising about killing you long before the day his intended came to our lands. I am sure he has been thinking about it every single time. Now, while you were forcing a stiffy inside her, he was thrusting rocks into tree backs imagining your face as the tree. Forget about the enmity our people have with his, this kid really hates you with a burning passion. Remember the last time you two met on the market day in Peidu. Your mere sight turned his face red. His muscles started folding forcing his arm to form a punch, and the hairs on his skin were as straight and as hard as tree branches. Only his bald head began to sweat. Yours did not. And not the whole head, just the top baked part. I’m sure when he closes his eyes to rest, his mind plays visions of him killing you, every time a different and more brutal death.

Eski replied ‘I really disgraced him among his people. Why would a man want to walk towards his grave? You know I have been fierce all my life. Why would I stop fighting now?’

Peidu continent

Sevo removed a few of his father’s instruments, and started banging them, adding things and mixing liquids. Kimdidn’t understand one thing. His father asked him to continue reading. Kim sarcastically commented ‘Grandfather was detailed in his writings; I wonder what he wrote about the trees, the leaves, and the water. I can’t wait to get to that part.’

Sevo was very serious. He did not register the humour. He was standing next to the table and the skies eyes was at the end of the table, the huge water basin on the floor. Sevo moved like a demented soul from his station and showed his son where to start reading, then he walked back and he continued with his work.

Time, after third eruption

place, Soleil planet

Love is either a curse that will cause the destruction of you beings or a blessing to ensure your survival.

Whichever way your predecessors wronged the gods, you should repent. I can’t tell them to repent because they are all dead, but you are here, so I tell you.

For their own survival, these eleven beings mated with each other like the rest of the animals. Well, they only had us to learn from. They agreed on a few things to help them survive and care about each other.

Since not everyone was strong, the male who hunted shared the meat with everyone.

Whenever the male wanted to mate, the female would not deny him, he mated with whoever he wanted.

Whenever the female wanted to mate, she mated with whoever she wanted; the male would not deny.

No one was allowed to eat snakes. They could not trust funny long animals with no legs. What if it keeps walking inside of them?

No one was to approach the red hot heavy water magma that killed the second sibling.

Elephants were believed to be loyal humble beings, and were highly respected.

No drinking from the red river. Those are tears of the dead.

Beautiful was mating with Hairy; Scars came and sat down to watch. They thought he was waiting to go next. He just looked at them and started thinking about the times he had done it with One-leg; he still didn’t know why she was the only one he had to think about to make his phallus excited.

Breasts came and pulled his hand ‘oohhh … even me, come and mate with me. I have also been waiting a while and these two are not finishing soon.’ He went and did what was required of him. After Hairy was through, Beautiful went out searching for Muscles. He had only mated with her once. It hurt her brain trying to think why he never came back to her again. It was the best she ever had. Whenever she was mating with anyone, she tried to imagine it was him. It was the only way she could enjoy it. But this time Hairy had pushed her to her worst. He had mated with her three times in a row. He seemed to have enjoyed himself and he lasted long periods. He never finished quickly. She was losing her mind. She wanted Muscles, his touch; she wanted to hear him roar as they enjoyed each other. She wanted to see him sweat on her. She wanted to hold him tight as she orgasmed. She remembers vividly how it went the first time they did it … and that’s exactly what she wanted.

She spent some time looking for her source of pleasure and at last she found him. He was in the water. She stopped in the trees before reaching the beach. She stayed there and admired him, how he raised from the water and it all splashed and fell from his body. She was really crazy about him;

if only she knew what love is.

Before she could take a step to approach the beach, Bald also emerged from the water. But not so fast; she only raised her ass. She was on all fours. All Beautiful could see was an ass raising in front of Muscles as he walked towards it, or from her perspective, towards her.

He just got hold of it, put his penis inside her, and started mating with her. As he thrusted, the water splashed on either side, and made loud splashing sounds. And then Bald raised her head from the water, moaning, and dipped it back in. It was like a butterfly.

Now with these giant beings having big hearts, they must have been capable of truly loving or maybe could love you forever, but they were not immune to jealousy. Jealousy and love are reflections from the same mirror. Beautiful started breathing so fast. She held a tree stem with her large palm and started squeezing it so hard. Her eyes became red and her feet were shaking; she had just realised that these two were not just mating but making love.

If only she knew what love is.

She started hating the one person she loved, she hated Bald, her heart was racing, her legs were shaking; she was experiencing a mixture of emotions. She got angrier and angrier and squeezed the tree stem till she broke it into two making a loud sound that the love birds didn’t expect since they thought they were alone. As Muscles turned to look at where the sound came from, she sprinted off and ran away, with tears rushing down her face. The rest of the animals knew to give way whenever the first Soleil were in a hurry or running for something. They killed everything in their path.

Hairy was mating with One-leg this time; he was rampant and restless with the ladies. One-leg was holding on to an elephant. She had her knees on the ground and her hands hugging the little elephant tight. Hairy was behind her. The poor elephant kept screaming to be rescued, but no animal would dare intervene with the first beings. And the first inhabitants thought those were screams of joy since they had invited it to their party. One-eye, White, Black, and Breasts were just there watching, touching each other’s bodies, cuddling. One-eye swiftly pushed One-leg off the elephant and it ran away.

He told Hairy ‘For once, please stop. Listen.’ They all remained still. The ground started shaking. They all knew that one of them had to be in danger. Only they could cause the ground to shake.

The shaking increased, so as to imply that more than one was in danger. What being could threaten two of their siblings? White looked at One-eye in shock and amazement.

Beautiful ran so fast that she started jumping a few stew steps in the air. One-eye and Hairy got in positions ready to pull out trees to hit whatever was chasing their siblings. When Beautiful arrived, Black spread out her hand for her to hold and cut her speed instantly, but she was so fast that she swung and threw the both of them off a few yards.

Before gaining her breath, she said in their sign language, between gasps and heavy breaths, Muscles and Bald are traitors.

Time, 894 revolutions

place, Soleil planet

Peidu continent

Kim wondered ‘Why did grandfather call these beings weird names?’

Sevo told him that ‘the elephants referred to each with a unique characteristic. They didn’t know their names, but they are sure even the first beings themselves didn’t know about names.’

‘How did the elephants know everything about our ancestors?’

‘That’s not everything. Those were the first beings that lived the first life, the elephants only told what they saw.’

Hairy was male, and the most hairy of all.

Black was female with the darkest skin.

White was male with the lightest skin.

Scars was male and had many scars due to his fighting with dinosaurs and dragons.

One-leg was female and lost a leg during their emergence process from the statues.

One-eye was male. A dragon hit his statue eye with its tail.

Beautiful was female. The most beautiful of all. She had the prettiest eyes. Her lips always looked wet, like a delicacy ready to taste.

Bald was female and the only one without hair.

Muscle was male and the strongest of all.

Slim was female and the thinnest being of her siblings.

Breasts was female and had enormous breasts; she always caught the men staring at her. But she never understood why. But I am also sure they never did either.

Novak Library: Image portraying Sevo standing next to the dish of water on which the skies eyes form images. Although the Soleil are hairy, they still do wear their wood, but Sevo is also wearing the revolutions counter on his arm. The women too are hairy but not like the men. The women have very little hair on their bodies and you can still see their skin but the men have the hair covering all their bodies.

Neiger continent

‘So should I call our men back?’ Jash asked.

‘No … no, my dear friend, I have never done anything right my whole life. But I can’t give Yeni and the Bras that satisfaction and pride over my people. When you meet my little girls again, remind them of their father.

There isn’t enough time for me to meet them, and if I do, I might not go through with this. I always pictured them growing up in the Peidu continent, marrying there, practising in the market times, or whatever else the Peidu do. It’s a beautiful place. But there isn’t enough time.’

‘Now, what should i tell your wife?’ Jash asked.

‘You’re a good man, Eski.’

‘No, you are the better man, Jash, there are no good men like me, but there are better men like you. Please, while the duel is going on, you have to put a spear in my chest; do not do it for me, do it for our people.’

‘And how will I look your wife in the eyes after I have killed you?’

‘Tell her I did something right.

And tell her to see to our plans for Peidu. My daughters have no place here. Our men will look at my wife as the cause of their leader’s death.’

‘No, I will look after them; why should they go to a foreign land, live as strangers, when they have my protection here, in their home? I will protect them.’

It is a miracle how Eski and Guzel found each other and how they both craved to go back to their homeland. At least Guzel knew but Eski had no idea both his parents were from Peidu. They hugged each other laughing through tears. Only they knew the secret behind Eski’s wife, but after his death, everyone would know.

They followed the way east, in the direction of the Bras continent. ‘So how should I walk towards my end?’

‘I suppose the same way as you walked to battle with the Necks.’

‘No, I feel like this is different, this is a death journey, I don’t think I should sing along.’

On Bras continent

They walked; walked through the forests, walked to the river, walked through the water, and upon reaching the Bras land, they could see smoke rising to the clouds.

Eski pointed at it ‘There, we should go there.’ They all followed him like ducks. The Bras were seated around a fire watching the smoke coming off their fallen loved ones. They were seated in circles, rows of circles, and at the centre was a fire burning their dead. Yeni was seated close to the fire, with his brother Yarin next to him. Opposite them on the other side were seated two other Soleil. Then the rows began after them growing outwards.

The Neiger stood on one side, and stayed there trying to respect the mourning ceremony.

The person who was seated next to Yeni, his brother, whispered ‘The Neiger are here.’ He didn’t respond, he was weeping, he was in deep sorrow.

He was seated with his legs folded, his right elbow resting on his right thigh, and right palm holding his face.

‘Eski is with them.’ A voice came to Yeni’s ears once more. He raised his head slowly on hearing that.

‘What do they want?’ he asked.

‘I don’t know, they’re just standing there.’ ‘The Necks must have bashed his head to the rocks so hard,’ Yeni said in a low voice as he got up. He looked at them for a moment then swiftly sat down, returning to his mourning.

As if he hadn’t seen them. Eski whispered to Jash ‘You have four sons. They have to be ready for the attack when the time comes. Knowing our numbers and after seeing the numbers of the Bras, we need more warriors. Also, tell all the men who have sons, they must stand in battle. This plan will work. I am sure of it.’

‘Mav and Mel, Kav and Kel. My children have been begging me to come to battle for many revolutions.’

‘They are good boys,’ Eski replied. He then started tapping on the shoulders of the Bras who were seated on the outskirts, trying to pave a way as he approached the centre where Yeni was. Jash got hold of his spear, and started rolling it in his palms. Hardly had he made it through when Yeni pulled out a burning piece of wood and threw it at him.

Eski punched it away. He had not come with his spear. Yeni hurriedly got his spear and threw it at his enemy, not allowing him a moment to think, but Eski still got the flying spear and put it down, as he spoke ‘I just want to talk.’

Yeni came running, and Eski also charged with a left–right hook, which stopped in the air when Yeni met him with a terrible kick. From the ground, Eski threw sand at him, which was escorted with a punch that Yeni couldn’t see. He kicked him to the fire but Yeni tried to stand his ground with his knees, and as soon as he reached the fire, he got another wood plank and came to fight with it. Eski came running to meet Yeni where he had kicked him. Yeni swung the wood plank a few times, but Jash got tired of seeing his friend suffer to his death. He calmed himself down, raised the spear with deep sorrow in his eyes, and aimed it at his best friend who was trying to defend himself from the swinging hot wooden plank.

At first Yeni thought he had got him, but when he came to see clearly, there was a spear he hadn’t thrown, and he shouted with rage ‘Who did it …?’

Jash answered in a hurting, breaking voice ‘I have saved you a great deal of pain. Your debt is settled, now let’s talk about our future.’

‘What kind of a man would turn on his own people? Would kill his own leader?’ Yeni was demanding to know. He spoke so hard that he even bit his own tongue.

‘It was necessary.

I am ashamed of it. But now is not the time to feel shame, now is not the time to fight one another. The time to bicker among ourselves is a luxury we have not.’

Yeni replied ‘You know nothing about my hatred for this man.’ He said that with blood spilling from his mouth.

‘Ooh, I know everything. He stole your wife, he fucked her, and while you were weeping, thinking about the things he was doing to her or with her, it drove you so crazy that you hated your own reflection. I am sorry, my dear.’

Not many knew she was meant to be married to Yeni. The warriors are less than intrested in social gossip.

He started raising his voice slowly so that everyone could hear him.

‘I don’t wish to know what it’s like to be you, but even to get to make that wish, I have to be alive. We have to be alive to be jealous, angry, love, smile, or even eat. We have to first be alive. But our lives are always under threat because we know from the clouds the Necks will one day come and wipe us all out. We just burnt our dead. I am guessing you were not roasting elephants for meat here.’

He came to Yeni and reached out with his hand for an embrace.

‘Please join us, fight with us against the Necks, so that we get to live, and do the things we wish, or so the things we don’t wish are done to us and we get jealous, but we fight together to live. I am begging you.’

Yeni dropped the wooden plank, went on his knees, and hugged him at the waist while he burst into tears, ‘I lost all my sons.

I lost all my sons.

I lost all my sons.’

That was the only sound that came from him.

Yeni’s brother Yarin came in front of them with one leg stepping on Eski’s body. ‘I had already urged him to make the same preposition to you. But his ego is larger than his penis,’ he commented.

Time, after third eruption

place, Soleil planet

Whether your mouth can form sounds or you use signs to communicate, everyone is loud and shouts in heated moments and arguments.

Beautiful could not take in what everyone was asking at the same time and reply to them all. They communicated with signs. How could she settle for a moment when everyone was pulling her to face them?

What’s chasing you?

Her mind grasped something from all the confusion and she replied to them, Nothing.

Muscles and Bald arrived. And she accused them of being traitors. Tell them Muscles what i just saw, tell everyone how much of a traitor you are. I saw the two of you, and I know this has been going on for a while, tell them.

This was a time when not many things had been discovered. If Muscles knew to lie, he would have done so to prevent an argument with his siblings, but he was backed in a corner and he knew not what to do. Bald held his arm softly, and replied to her siblings.

We are not traitors. We agree with all the rules we made for our survival and well-being. We just want to mate with each other and no one else.

Hairy had leadership skills and was the one who had come up with the idea that they needed something to guide them towards survival. Rules or guidelines. Then his siblings followed his thought; everyone told their fears and fantasies, and those that were approved by all became their rules to follow.

Hairy asked Muscles if what she had said was true … and he replied affirmatively.

See, I told you they were traitors, Beautiful commented. They all started arguing and, out of jealousy, she slapped Bald, and Muscles pushed her to the ground. Hairy came in to stop them. He pulled Beautiful from the ground, and suggested that everyone should go and rest and think. They would come back after a few moments and decide on what to do. And everyone went their separate ways.

Scars and One-leg went on the beach and lay in the sand. She asked him, Why can’t we fly like the evions, or stay in water like the fish?

He looked at her and laughed.

I think I like you the same way Muscles and Bald like each other. I want us to have that. Me and you. I am always thinking about you, I don’t know why. Even when I am mating with another, I imagine it’s you. I don’t know what I’m feeling, I am not sure even Muscles or Bald know it. But my chest is heavier when you’re away, it hurts. And when you’re with me, like now, it’s light, and I feel happy.

One-leg was just happy someone was willing to be with her, just her, break the rules for her.

She told him, We will also be considered traitors. And he comforted her, Perhaps it’s the better way to live, he said.

She drew lines on the sand: five pairs and the last one alone without a pair.

II II II II II I

We are eleven. If everyone gets one person to mate with, someone is going to be left alone. Are you sure that’s the better way to live? she asked him.

He told her they should be the last ones to air their thoughts and pick sides. If Muscles and Bald were going away leaving everyone behind to live together, they should join them. If they were staying, maybe they could also try to stay and suppress their emotions for one another. One-leg agreed. And they laid in the sand for a long while, just happy and enjoying each other’s company.

Volume 003

this is as perfect as it gets in this world. I waited a long while for a pretty girl, and all i got were your mothers.

Time, 894 revolutions

place, soleil planet

Peidu continent

Kim came towards his father. He looked at the water, the images from his grandfather’s skies eyes. Then he looked at his father. ‘Among these lights must be a reason to live, beings with more knowledge than us. Or maybe the gods’ home and I could build something and sail across the light and meet them.

The gods will be seeing you, the gods’ eyes are everywhere, you know that,’ Kim warned his father. ‘You know they are always watching.’

And Sevo replied ‘Perhaps I will meet them and ask them why they let our people get killed by the Necks.’

‘How do you intend to do that when we don’t even have a way to go up to the planet of the Necks and kill them? Now you want to go to the gods? Are you crazy?’ Kim asked his father.

‘Your grandfather was no crazy man. I already told you that. I intend to finish his work. So don’t you dare call me crazy like all the Soleil here called him. He was no crazy man.’ He repeated the last sentence like a demented psychopath, which did not help his case.

‘I am going to see my wife, I’ll come back later, father.’

‘Ok, my son. Tell her I love her so much, and bring me water from the red river. As much as you can.’

‘Ok, father. But you don’t love my wife, I do.’ They both laughed.

Kim’s full name is Kim the first One. He is the son of Sevo the last one, son of Sevo the crazy one, son of Sevo the great one, son of Sevo the first one. On Peidu, one has their name and position of birth corresponding to those with the same name in the family and if one is found in the middle, they carry one name until when they are grown up and given a describing character.

Time, 880 revolutions

place, Soleil planet

Neiger continent

A father sent his son to the stream of water between the Neiger and Bras continents to collect some fish for the family. The kid was happy to do so. He grabbed a basket and a spear, and ran as fast as he could to the water stream. He was not tall enough, but he could walk in the water. So he tried swimming with his spear while shooting at the fish. Whenever he caught one, he got out, put it in the basket and went back in.

There was a group of warriors on the side of the Bras continent who were training to keep fit and in shape. There were five warriors.The first man who heard the boy in the water quickly shushed his friends. Then he pointed at the river. They slowly walked through the trees, and stayed calm communicating only with signs. One warrior bet the other that if he threw an arrow at the boy and shot him, then they would have a meal at his place; if he failed, then he would have to host. The other warrior got hold of his spear, waited for the boy to get in the water, and while he was swimming, chasing fish, they sent a spear that went through his thigh.

The warriors started arguing.

‘I got him.’

‘In the thigh.’

‘I still got him, you didn’t specify.’