( Part XXIX , Ramblings , XXXI )
Was that the end? Did the images on the sandy screens pause and then cease forever? Would the two ninjas of health learn nothing more, and the situation back home become ever more critical until a disaster occurred and the mysterious entity became supreme? No, of course not!
The images resumed, with a rock hurtling through space and out of a solar system. For what seemed like aeons, the asteroid continued on, and on, and on. Within the space rock, there was a small cavity, in which an egg slowly grew. Where had the egg come from? We may never know? Where did it end up? In a small allotment in Toddlingham, releasing what seemed to be a monster into the world. How had this strange metamorphosis occurred? That would require some serious exposition out of the mouth of our present antagonist and serious rewriting at a far later stage!
The egg grew, as our heroes watched in an increasingly confused state. Was this supposed to be helping? The rock flew, and flew, and flew some more. Then, in the distance a star began to become brighter. Our solar system ran into view, and then the Earth, with the rock apparently making adjustments in trajectory before falling into the planet's gravity well.
The sandy curtains paused in their show once again, slowly cycling rainbows of colour around the circular edge of the crater.
"Is that it?" Asked the Man.
"No..." the Woman eventually replied, "there is something more..." She wrinkled her nose. "I have one of those feelings."
The holding pattern on the curtains cleared, and showed an entirely new scene. Two people were sitting cross-legged in what seemed like a chapel, with a great Pattern surrounding them on their floor. The two figures were very familiar, in that they were the same two who were watching the images now. In the corner of the depicted room, a figure stool silently, laughing, and leaning on a cane.
The figure was indistinguishable from he who had vanished in the path of the meteorite.
More shall follow...
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