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- ‘What are Starmites’ TLG asks as he attempts to steady himself against the inside of the Etherscope.
- ‘You will see little one, but first we must get going, we have a long way to go, so I will explain everything on the way.’
- *The Super Star*
- At that, the sphere started lifting higher into the air, but TLG felt no sensation of moving, as if there was no inertia in the sphere. Suddenly the sphere rocketed into the atmosphere. TLG looked down at the Orange landscape as it disappeared into the distance and revealed the circular diameter of an Orange and blue world. TLG was dumbfounded as he watched this worldview from space unfold before him. He could say nothing, only gaze with those large green eyes reflecting his celestial surroundings, as he existed in this strange and magical place.
- TLG pushed himself off the edge of the Etherscope and floated there, weightless, drifting around the scope with Robin who was clinging to the opposite side gazing toward their heading. Robin looked preoccupied as if he were somehow controlling the scope.
- TLG felt peaceful and relaxed I wonder what will become of me. He told himself gently as he drifted inside this cocoon of powerful protection. He felt safe and warm, floating around, happy and content, without knowing or caring about what to expect next.
- He looked out at a world that was now disappearing into a small orange dot in the vast expanse of this universe. His vision was filled with stars and galaxies clouds of brightly coloured dust that reflected the glow of massive star clusters cast with the shadows of giant dark orbs like the ghostly remains of dead stars.
- ‘Outstanding!’ TLG said, unable to contain his admiration of the spectacular panorama.
- Robin turned to TLG and smiled a grimacing smile, his huge eyes reflecting the starlight around him.
- ‘I gathered you would be impressed.’
- ‘I have always wondered what it would be like in the heavens, but I never realized it would be like this. Are all universes like this one?’ TLG inquired.
- ‘This is a starry universe, and most starry universes are like this. Because we are traversing Macro and Microverses, we will see very similar features because the laws of physics are almost identical and any differences are only trivial.’
- TLG marvelled at how such words of wisdom emanated from such a ridiculous looking creature. Robin’s teeth glistened in the starlight as he spoke and his thin lips never quite met which gave his voice an anxious, strained quality. A creature so perfect, with skin that did not fit, like it was not his own. But indeed this was true. He was possessed by the Ghost head. An outlaw of existence. As broken and desperate as TLG with his strange lightning cloud and lost Odelin.
- ‘Brace yourself little one. We are about to make haste.’
- ‘Where are we going?’ TLG quickly inquired before Robin had a chance to increase speed.
- Robin pushed himself from the side of the sphere and floated over to TLG grabbing him and pulling him to his furry cheek. ‘See that bright blue star next to that nebula?’ Robin pointed a claw and adjusts TLG to face the direction of his gesture.
- ‘Yes’
- ‘Look just to the right of that, there is a fuzzy blob of light that resembles a spiral?’
- ‘Yes, I see it.’ TLG replied edgily, uneasy about his proximity to Robin’s razor sharp teeth.
- ‘That is a galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars, very much like this one. And see the top spiral arm?’
- ‘Yes’
- ‘You cannot see it from here, but there is a star near the end of that spiral arm. That is out destination.’
- ‘Why is that our heading?’ TLG asked.
- ‘Because that is where your Odelin is.’
- ‘How do you know?’ TLG asks.
- ‘It is much to explain little one, but your Odelin shines with the power of a trillion stars in darkness of your dispossession. You are the one with the Meta universe. And as I also descend from this realm, I feel the resonance well. All that exists are but echoes. Minions of the core ethics that contrive the Meta universe. These shine to me like beacons, when you remember or think about Odelin. Like you are the focus of an emanation, and I see it clearly.’
- ‘How do you think he got so far away?’
- ‘If that were that case that he did leave you company long ago, I would certainly have no idea how he got there. But I suspect you were never together. I feel you and he, were brought to existence at once, but not in the same realm. Yet you connect to each other. This is a curious effect that I wish more, to comprehend.’
- ‘What else can you tell me about him?’ TLG inquires desperate to drum up more memories of his long lost friend.
- ‘I cannot. There is something certainly unusual about his echoes, but that is all I can perceive, patterns of resonance. But we shall find out soon enough.’
- TLG did not reply but he felt uncomfortable about his explanation. TLG felt as though Robin was not telling the whole truth. That he was concealing his real intentions. Echoes and beacons? But TLG knew he had no better chance of finding his Odelin. So he resigns once again to putting these feelings behind him.
- ‘Lets go then.’ TLG says with extra determination now more curious than ever.
- ‘You may feel a little odd but I am about take a shortcut.’
- Robin releases TLG and returns to his position to face the destination. TLG just gazes out at the stars and galaxies and waits expectantly.
- At some point in time TLG notices everything exists in just lines. There is nothing else. It’s as though the universe have been extruded infinitely and had been frozen in time. TLG could not move but things were changing around him. He notices the lines were starting to quiver like tightened ropes oscillating in a strong wind. Suddenly he was aware of a high-pitched whistling. Then everything melted away. No blackness, no whiteness, no substance, no ether, no anything at all.
- The lack of anything was so profound TLG’s mind started dreaming to fill the void. He dreamed of floating in space with a strange beast and the images in his mind grew stronger and stronger until he could swear they were real. TLG suddenly realised they actually were.
- ‘That was odd.’ TLG mumbled.
- ‘The mind can play tricks on you when the scope goes black.’ Robin remarked noticing TLG’s surprise after awakening from the void.
- ‘It felt like I was completely alone.’
- ‘When the scope goes black you cannot hear, see, or feel any sensation. Therefore, time seems to stand still as your brain disconnects from your senses until you start feeling again soon after the scope lights up. All experience the same effect.’
- *The Inhibitor*
- TLG looks around and everything has changed. All the stars are gone except a massive fiery orb covering nearly half the field of view.
- ‘What is that?’ TLG asks.
- ‘Behold! The Super Star’ Robin announces theatrically.
- ‘The Super Star?’ TLG echoes.
- ‘It has no Gnome name as there are a lot of stars in this universe. It would be impractical to name them all. But for your benefit I guess we could name this one.’
- ‘How about. “The Odelin Star”.’
- ‘I like that.’ TLG remarks.
- ‘I cannot wait until I tell him he has a star named after him.’ TLG added.
- ‘Done!’ Robin snared and then grinned in an almost condescending manner.
- TLG felt a little uncomfortable but was unable to reprimand an arrogant master of the universe of universes. TLG thought he would wait until he said something stupid and would make fun of him, but was not holding his breath.
- ‘Where have the other stars gone?’ TLG said noticing their absence.
- ‘They have not gone little one. You just cannot see them when you are this close to a star. I have tinted the Etherscope so we would not blind us. You did not think you could look directly at a Super Star from this distance and not be blinded let alone disintegrate into a puff of smoke in an instance. I need constantly, to adjust the brightness of the Etherscope for viewing comfort. I will need to do it again soon as you will see.’
- ‘Is Odelin inside the Star?’
- ‘Sort of; he is in a Microverse that inhabits a Xroud that was part of a the element of fire that was annihilated by a device called a Star Flux Inhibitor , a machine invented by a Starmite that once lived in this Star.’ Robin clears his throat and continues.
- ‘We need to go into this star and find this universe. The Starmites are very curious and they will want an explanation for our visit. We will be very strange to them as they believe that they are the only inhabitants of the universe. All Starmites do.’
- ‘What are Starmites?’ TLG re-instates the question he asked earlier before being diverted off the subject.
- ‘Starmites are the intelligent life forms at the centre of every star in every starry universe.’
- ‘Well, this is something to think about. How do they get there?’ TLG inquired.
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- ‘Natural Ethics permits all in existence to change and grow more complex over time. The process of Natural Transmutation is born of this ethic, and most sentient creatures come to be in this manner.
- At the centre of every new star exists a civilization of Starmites. These are creatures have transmuted into existence over a time and are much like yourself.
- The life forms must then transmute into sentient creatures, discover the disciplines Natural Ethics, realise they only have a few years left to live before their whole civilisation and world is wiped from existence, so to create a machine known throughout the universe as a Star Flux Inhibitor . This is at the heart of every star more than a million years old. Without the Star Flux Inhibitor (Inhibitor ) a star will become unstable and collapse into an un-escapable void, or go explode with a force that would rock the universe. Fortunately for us, almost all stars produce Starmites that invent a Inhibitor and therefore our universes keep powering along.
- Even when a universe (or Xroud) finally dies and the universe is lying still and cold in the ultimate natural ethics dilemma, and the last bastion of intelligent life huddle around the dim warmth of the last dying star; it is intelligent life that finds the ultimate destiny for its dying universe.
- To collapse the universe so it will re-ignite in colossal act of regeneration, extincting themselves in the ultimate act of self sacrifice to give way to a new universe, born again.’
- TLG was finding all this information too hard to contemplate all at once, so he pieced though lecture, mulling everything over with his sceptical eye then it occurred to him. ‘If the Starmites need to create an Inhibitor , then how do they know how to build one?’
- ‘Have you not been listening little one? They have to work it out for themselves. No one can communicate with a Starmite. They endure their entire history thinking that the confines of their star is the whole universe until finally, the star runs out of fuel and dies and they all become extinct. That is something the Starmites, are not capable of preventing. A Starmite and any material possessions it uses can only exist under such extreme heat and pressure that it is impossible for it to leave the prison of its star without disintegrating into star dust.’ Robin, who was gazing into the star along with TLG, pauses and turns to TLG.
- ‘If it wasn’t for them you would not exist, as all other forms of natural life in a universe including Gnomes, need at least a three hundred million, years of starlight to transmute into sentient beings. And without Sentient natural life, then dream creatures like us could never have been conceived and the universes would be stark places of black still heavy clouds of dark matter and the Meta universal would be flat and hollow.’
- TLG was suddenly distracted by something robin said and had to interrupt him. ‘What do you mean by “Dream Creatures like us.”?’
- ‘You did not think that you were the product of Natural Transmutation did you?’. Robin laughed.
- TLG was horrified by the notion.
- ‘How do you know I was not?’ TLG asked indignantly realising he was being accused of lacking substance.
- ‘Well I cannot tell for sure, but you certainly posses some unusual qualities I would not expect in a normal creature.’
- TLG chose not to believe Robin as the idea would raise too many questions that he did not have time or inclination to ask given his quest for Odelin.
- ‘I will beg to differ on this point, but you can believe what you will. But please continue’.
- Robin just snarls at TLG continues his lecture. ‘But thanks to the Starmites, it’s not like this. Universes are held afloat by devices invented in infinite number for the purpose of the self preservation of the intelligent life that invented them. It is as if the stars themselves can think, and therefore exist. Intelligence is the force that holds our universe together as the formation of intelligence is inevitable consequence of the Natural Ethics1 of existence. Gravity alone is no enough.’ Robin took a breath and looked back to the star.
- TLG also stared out at the star and there was silence for a minute or so as TLG thought about, and tried to avoid thinking about the ideas Robin was conveying.
- ‘That is remarkable!’ TLG finally remarked.
- ‘I know. Nature is far stranger than it appears to the naked eye.’
- *The Descent*
- At that, Robin started moving the Etherscope towards the star until they could see nothing except for the bright orange yellow flares of the star rushing past then. TLG looked around him in awe as massive arches spilled out of the star below them, rose above them and dissipated back into the star behind them. It was frightening and exhilarating. TLG could see arches in the distance that were larger than planets. Huge storms of fire rear up and collapse into smouldering tornados that spun and curled and hesitated finally being swallowed by even larger tornados that would be shattered by explosive gisers erupting from the everywhere all whooshing past them at great speed as they descended.
- As they sped down then scenery slowly changed, after a while there was no sign of the curvature of the star. They were being constantly battered by wave after wave fire and chaos, crashing past them like the raging sea of hell fire. TLG looked down as the sphere descended to toward the surface and waited expectantly for the landing. But it did not happen. They just kept on descending faster and faster. TLG turned to Robin and asked. ‘When will we be landing?’
- ‘We are a long way from landing. The solid surface of a star is near its centre so we have only just begun our descent. We have about one hundred thousand million, fathoms to dive’. Robin pauses. ‘But we are descending very fast and we have much to see on the way down. So while we are descending I may as well explain more about where we are going.’ Robin turns away from the outer Sphere to face TLG.
- ‘The centre of a Star consists of a world made mainly of fire gasses transmuted to metal by the unimaginable weight of the stars substance, which is what most of the universes consists of. This metal forms many structures depending on how the atoms hook themselves together. This forms the rich natural world for which the life inside the star inhabits eventually to transmute into Starmites. Starmites come in many varieties and forms depending on the nature of the star they were formed in but thanks to the manner of natural transmutation you can pretty much spot them anywhere. They usually grow four legs, two arms with hands and opposing thumbs and two or more forward facing eyes. Pretty much like a Gnome really except more legs and maybe wings. They can also feel the resonance of the star they inhabit so are quite in tune with their surroundings.’
- Robin pauses and looked forward into the fire of the star as they flashed past. The flames were now stretched out like orange, yellow, blue, and green stripes that decorated the sphere from the front to the back. Of course, being in a sphere, there was no front or back, but TLG considered their direction of motion, to be the front. The stripes where flashing like bizarre coloured neon lights that pulsed impossibly fast, as to make TLG feel dizzy.
- ‘I should like to meet one of these Starmites, they sound like fascinating creatures?’ TLG injected.
- ‘Believe me, they are not that fascinating. In fact they are quite the pragmatists. And very serious and they will take our presence very seriously’ Robin said with earnest. ‘We will be the biggest event in their history.’
- TLG looked at the side of Robins soft and furry head. The brown colour of his shiny fur was barely recognisable under the array of colours lit from the starlight. He looked beautiful, perfect but still strange and menacing. TLG was beginning to trust him a bit more now, although it was an uncomfortable trust. TLG imagined that this Robin would be very dangerous if possessed by an evil entity, and wondered if there were more like him. Wondered if he would always feel the unease of knowing that at any time there could be something like him waiting around the corner to destroy everything he loved. So dangerous, so powerful so perfect.
- Just then, TLG noticed that their surrounding suddenly brightened from the rich, relentless stripes of fire. The fire was getting softer and more transparent. TLG pulled himself to the front. He peered into the distant as the flames started to fade and then suddenly peeled away as he became aware a vast atmosphere unfolding before him It was as though they had broken into a desert summer evening.
- TLG looked up from where they were falling and the sky looked like a massive red sunset that was incredibly vast, as if the sky where unfeasibly distant. He looked toward his descent and could see nothing but a fade to a black point. In a way, it looked like they were inside the eyeball of a giant, and we were falling into its pupil. This was a very strange sensation but TLG was beginning to get used to Strange.
- As they fell TLG just stared at the black point below him, and tried to perceive to point getting bigger as they approached but the sense of speed was rapidly diminishing as they got further from the ceiling of fire. TLG thought about their destination.
- ‘Why do we have to meet the Starmites to get Odelin? If there is a vortex you need to make, could we just find the universe without bothering the Starmites. I do not wish to meet Starmites; I just want to find Odelin.
- You are very strong Robin. Why do not you just go to where Odelin is and take the vortex? Surely, nothing can stop you and you cannot be stopped by Starmites. Why do we even need to meet them?’
- Robin turned to TLG with his sly and enthusiastic grin.
- ‘We do not really. I need to tell you a bit about Odelin’s predicament. He, and I suspect you are the fortunate products of a broken Xroud or Universe whichever you prefer, they are the same thing.
- The most common way this situation occurs is when a Star Flux Inhibitor breaks a Xroud. This does not happen very often, Most Xrouds when they are broken just collapse destroying everything in its universe to reignite into a new Xroud all information is lost when the new realm is created, but this does not always occur this way. Sometimes the Xroud does not collapse fully and the very laws of nature governing this universe are distorted beyond the natural ethics of the meta universe, bringing it to the brink of its collapse but not enough to collapse it. This is a very strange place indeed and this is what gives creatures like yourself and I our strange existence. You see, the thing about “Ethics” is, that because they do not describe systems such as mathematical observations. They guide systems. Mathematical law cannot be broken as it states a truth. However, Ethical laws can as they are just guidelines, and when these ethical laws are broken, the consequences can be profound for the meta universe. For instance, Dark Xrouds, or broken Xrouds can propagate wildly and out of control, throwing the ratio of infinity in their favour and this is not good, there should be more light than darkness in existence for intelligence and complexity to prosper.’
- ‘But how it the balance maintained? What stops the Dark Xrouds from becoming overwhelming?’
- ‘This is a good question little one and one I am not sure I can answer. You see, even in these dark realms, occasionally remarkable things can happen in these dark places. Because the physics of these places are so tightly strung. They resonate well with other realms, making it possible for the creation of marvellous, complex creatures with remarkable qualities normally impossible in most other realms. These creatures are the Outlaws of Natural Ethics. Maybe it is they, who bring the balance back. I believe they may be we. You know for yourself that you are not exactly normal. I feel we are being blown on the breeze of destiny, to fall from one universe to another in search of something wonderful. But for what purpose? For what purpose am I compelled to help you find Odelin? I cannot answer all questions but it pains me not to know.
- Your Odelin resides in one of these dark Xrouds located in a chamber near the heart of this Star where the Inhibitor is located. We need to bring Odelin’s Xroud to us and quickly as this Xroud grows unstable. We must get Odelin out before it collapses.
- But we must also be careful. There is not much that can destroy me as you can see, but the Xroud beam of a Inhibitor is such that it will denature nature itself. It needs to burn a whole though to the Meta universe as to pin the star into relative permanence.
- Broken Xrouds are the inevitable bi-product these systems but these Xrouds are what affords, creatures like us, our existence.’
- TLG could not take his eyes off Robin while he was ranting. TLG was so shaken by the revalations suggested by Robin that he felt almost drunk with anxiety and his Storm cloud raged above his head. Every time he thought about being an outlaw of natural ethics his head would spin, he would get shivers down his spine and his lightning could would fire. Robin also had noticed TLG’s distress.
- ‘Are you OK?’
- ‘I guess I am feeling a be overwhelmed. How do you know such things?’
- ‘I know, because I must. Before I can be fully realised, I need to be at one with the meta universe, but this is a long road and there are many answers I must find. I am old and wise but I do not yet know the ethics of nature. This is what I long for the most. Maybe it is you that can help me find it.’
- TLG looks down to the centre of the star and notices that the black point that was so distant has now expanded into a brightly coloured globe, and expanding faster as they approached. TLG looks around and notices other celestial objects locked in orbit around the coloured ball along with other more complex mechanical satellites.
- As they descend, TLG studied these satellites intently. He could see tiny lit windows with brightly coloured lights adorning the satellites. Looking around he could see them everywhere. They all looked as though they were under construction, with what looked like scaffolds and antenna attached to the complex exteriors. The satellites where all coloured in yellow and black stripes like bees and TLG could feel little eyes burning him from the little windows.
- *Thoughts*
- ‘Can you feel them thinking about you?’ Robin broke his daydream like silence.’
- ‘Yes’ Robin replied.
- ‘They are very sensitive; there are no secrets here because every Starmite’s can here every other Starmites thoughts.’
- ‘Can they here ours?’ TLG asks rhetorically in a hollow tone already knowing what the answer is.
- ‘Very good little one, you have much innate wisdom.’ Robin says, complimenting TLG’s answer in silence.
- ‘Thank you’ TLG just then realises that they are conversing without talking to each other.
- Suddenly TLG became aware of a chattering sound in the distant. He listened closer but realises that that sounds are more like thoughts. Little bubbles of thoughts bubbling out of the ether likes thousands of little bubbles in a pot of boiling water with each little bubble, an eye that expressed a thought only to pop and disappear behind another bubble that expressed a different thought. TLG was fixated on the background hum of thoughts.
- ‘They are the Starmites’ Robin remarks.
- TLG thinks to himself and suddenly gets the impression that this ability has always existed for him.
- Robin turns to TLG and nods slightly in admiration as if to acknowledge his gift.
- ‘You have always had this ability. You can only do it when you know how to listen. When you are in a star, you have no choice. You will have to get used to it, as it will never leave you. Thought conversing is like listening to birds in the summer. The birds are always chirping. In fact, there is a constant noise but you cancel it out because you do not need to hear it. Only when you concentrate and listen do the birds sing for you and you suddenly become aware of hundreds of birds singing.’
- TLG tries to imaging Robin in a summer field listening to birds and suddenly recoils at the thought. Then realising that Robin can read his thoughts he says ‘Sorry for thinking that about you.’
- ‘Thinking what?’ Robin replies.
- ‘I thought you could read my thoughts.’
- ‘Can you read mine?’ Robin asks.
- ‘Only when you say something in your thoughts.’
- ‘Precisely, I can only read thought that are said in your head. You need to think as if you were talking. You could imagine the troubles if every being could read every thought. This is why Starmites are so serious. They do not have the luxury of choice when talking thoughts. ‘Anyway, what were you thinking about me that would so offend me?’
- ‘Sorry, it was nothing; it’s too hard to explain.’ TLG says avoiding the answer.
- ‘I understand. I am not the most acceptable creature I know this much.’ Robin resigns.
- TLG thinks back to village life and wonders what it would be like when he teaches everyone how to thought talk.
- ‘Can anyone talk in thoughts?’ TLG inquires.
- ‘No, only creatures like us have this talent. I guess we are special in this respect.’
- By now, the world below them was covering half of their view. TLG stared at its beautiful colours and intricate fractal like patterns of the surface. There were no oceans, just beautiful coloured fractal formations with crystal like lines of all the colours of the rainbow. It was not unlike any other world except, rather than being immersed in the inky black of space, it was as though it were hanging in an immense lit cavern made of a fiery desert sunset, surrounding it. So far did the atmosphere extend, it was as if it were a as large as a galaxy.
- *A Close Encounter*
- Suddenly TLG becomes aware of thought chatter of the Starmite’s. He looked behind him and noticed thousands of little specs following their Etherscope. As they drew closer TLG noticed they were like little gold nuggets in the distance and they were gaining on them. He looked below him and could see more approaching from underneath. Thousands of them.
- Large bumble bees. Thousand of them escorting their scope as they descended. TLG looks to Robin who is just grinning below him. He was concentrating on lowering the scope as carefully as possible. Suddenly one was right in front of the scope so close TLG felt like he could reach out and touch it.
- TLG studies the bee closest to him. It has brilliant golden yellow stripes and had little Gnome faces. Exactly like the bees from the cave where the honey was except they seemed a bit more golden and glowing.
- ‘I take it that is a Starmite.’ TLG thinks.
- ‘Correct little one.’ Robin answers.
- ‘I feel I have met these creatures once before. At my home world, at least very similar.’
- ‘Very curious, I would find that most unlikely.’ Robin replied thoughtfully.
- The little creature gazed very wondrously at TLG though the scope as it hovered outside the, his big eyes reflecting the scenery around them. Then the little creature raised a little leg with fuzzy little striped fingers and waved, his face expressionless and with wonder as if he were more closely waiting for a response from travellers than paying attention to facial expression. TLG felt welcome enough and in no danger.
- ‘Greetings travellers, and welcome to the World. You must follow us to the King. He awaits you address.’ TLG could clearly hear the thoughts of the Starmite over the background chatter that surrounded them.
- ‘We would be clad make his acquaintance Starmite.’ TLG thinks with excitement replacing the surprise of the first encounter. TLG could hardly see the planet now as there were so many Starmites surrounding the scope but the Starmites started clearing from under them as they approached for landing.
- *The Starmite Capital*
- TLG could now see massive cities with huge towers all made of gold and silver that. He could not see the surface; it was as if the city completely covered the surface. TLG was astonished at the architecture. There seemed to be buildings built on top of buildings and little saucers and golden Bees drifted around everywhere. It was a site to behold. TLG gazed down between the massive structures and could see only darkness. TLG wondered if there where layers of cities build on top of each other. As they descended further they sank below skyline and TLG could see though the little windows, as they drifted down past them. He could make out little faces pressed up against them; all gazing out in wonder with compound eyes and some were waving.
- This went on for what seemed a long time, just slowly drifting down into an abyss. TLG marvelled at the shiny gold of the buildings. They seemed to be endlessly tall. Some had balconies, crowded with Starmites all waving and jostling for position to catch the entourage of TLG and Robin as they descended. Still being followed by the little flying saucers and hovering Starmites, TLG could also see Bee machines in tow. They looked similar to his one but where longer and narrower with six little robot arms attached to either side with bright golden yellow stripes on black.
- There were also creepy red and black striped, spider like vehicles running down the side of the towers lumbering to keep up. They appeared like mechanical spiders with eight legs and the viewing bubble underneath at the front, inside of which TLG could see little Starmite controllers.
- *The Borehole*
- TLG then notices a circular tunnel entrance below them and before long they entered. They drifted past immense doors made of glassy gold into the tunnel that was black. The tunnel was sparsely decorated with little windows with the occasional scaffold that clung precariously to the edge. All but the spidery vehicles had stopped following them as they continued there descent into the tunnel.
- ‘Where are we going?’ TLG asks Robin.
- ‘To visit the King of course.’ Robin replies and continues. ‘We are on our way to the Inhibitor which is at the centre of the star. This is where the Starmite King resides. It is of him, we need to ask favour of entering the Inhibitor so we can get to your Odelin.’
- ‘How much longer to the centre?’ TLG asks as he feels a wave of tiredness falls upon him.
- ‘Several hours yet I'm afraid. Because of the tunnel we can only travel slowly, it is very fragile and high speed could cause a collapse. This would anger the Starmites as this tunnel has taken hundreds of years to build. You get some sleep little one, I will awake you when we arrive.’
- TLG agrees, and snuggles up to the spongy interior of the sphere. In no time he is dreaming of thunder clouds and lightning, Starmites and spiders, Odelin and of Home.
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