Darkness Resisted
I shook my head trying to clear away the cloudiness even as I tried to get a handle on why I seemed to be swinging. My wrists hurt.
I glanced up and saw that they were tied to a pole and then glancing down I saw that my ankles were tied to the same poll, hence the swinging motion. The image of a pig being roasted over a fire in this manner came to mind and grimly I acknowledged it as a possibility.
I think I would've preferred being eaten by a sea monster rather than be a sacrificial slaying to some demon inspired deity.
As I swung back and forth I saw the others being brought along after me in similar fashion. Where were we anyway?
All the men walking to either side had torches in their hands. The torches weren't lit yet.
I suffered through a hard jolt as my carriers started up a series of steps. I craned my head around and saw that we were at the base of a mountain. Make that a volcano on second thought.
There was a doorway leading into the volcano itself just ahead. It was a very large doorway and it looked to have been purposely built that way.
Maybe everything hadn't been destroyed after all. I swallowed hard at the possibilities that could represent. This was bad!
We were inside and the torches flared up and I saw a glimpse into the grandeur of the past as it lay all around me covered in dust. Sculptures engraved into the basaltic walls of the volcano loomed out at me as my bearers hauled me up yet more stairs.
The sculptures were of gigantic proportion and I feared they had been modeled off like sized individuals in the distant past thus validating the theory that Atlantis had been a kingdom of giants. Giants endowed with advanced knowledge from their angelic fathers.
Forbidden knowledge that was not to have been shared with mankind and which had helped lead to the corruption of mankind and creation itself.
"Oh God help me destroy this place!" I said.
I heard the laughter again and I glanced to the side to see our former guide keeping pace with me grinning like a Cheshire Cat.
"There is no God in this place as we reject His authority even as we become like gods ourselves!" He said all smiles.
"And just how do you plan to become a god?" I asked skeptically giving the man a once over.
He wasn't put down by my sarcastic perusal of him, "We will unlock the hidden knowledge and become mighty as man once was before. All we needed was the key, which you have unwittingly supplied us with!" He said on a gleeful note, as he held up the central crystal of the Orlanis Star.
Darkness Resisted
I shook my head trying to clear away the cloudiness even as I tried to get a handle on why I seemed to be swinging. My wrists hurt.
I glanced up and saw that they were tied to a pole and then glancing down I saw that my ankles were tied to the same poll, hence the swinging motion. The image of a pig being roasted over a fire in this manner came to mind and grimly I acknowledged it as a possibility.
I think I would've preferred being eaten by a sea monster rather than be a sacrificial slaying to some demon inspired deity.
As I swung back and forth I saw the others being brought along after me in similar fashion. Where were we anyway?
All the men walking to either side had torches in their hands. The torches weren't lit yet.
I suffered through a hard jolt as my carriers started up a series of steps. I craned my head around and saw that we were at the base of a mountain. Make that a volcano on second thought.
There was a doorway leading into the volcano itself just ahead. It was a very large doorway and it looked to have been purposely built that way.
Maybe everything hadn't been destroyed after all. I swallowed hard at the possibilities that could represent. This was bad!
We were inside and the torches flared up and I saw a glimpse into the grandeur of the past as it lay all around me covered in dust. Sculptures engraved into the basaltic walls of the volcano loomed out at me as my bearers hauled me up yet more stairs.
The sculptures were of gigantic proportion and I feared they had been modeled off like sized individuals in the distant past thus validating the theory that Atlantis had been a kingdom of giants. Giants endowed with advanced knowledge from their angelic fathers.
Forbidden knowledge that was not to have been shared with mankind and which had helped lead to the corruption of mankind and creation itself.
"Oh God help me destroy this place!" I said.
I heard the laughter again and I glanced to the side to see our former guide keeping pace with me grinning like a Cheshire Cat.
"There is no God in this place as we reject His authority even as we become like gods ourselves!" He said all smiles.
"And just how do you plan to become a god?" I asked skeptically giving the man a once over.
He wasn't put down by my sarcastic perusal of him, "We will unlock the hidden knowledge and become mighty as man once was before. All we needed was the key, which you have unwittingly supplied us with!" He said on a gleeful note, as he held up the central crystal of the Orlanis Star.