Dalv and the Dell of Gold

by Jet556

On Third Earth there is a place called the Dell of Gold. On the maps of many native races of Third Earth, they know where it is but seldom travel there. When the thought of captive friends being there for if gold is treasure as is friendship and knowledge then they must be there, comes to the minds of Dalv and his descendant Kernunnos they go there.

1. What is Gold?

Welcome everyone. A new week, a new story and we return to Brigid and Henti's abduction. This time our lead is Dalv with Kernunnos as his aide. Enjoy and review.

What is Gold?

Sitting in Wilusa, Dalv stared at a map. Sitting next to him was his kin Kernunnos, a boy and a man all at once. Intelligent and at the same time unintelligent! A brute and at the same time an intellectual with a great grasp of philosophy! Yes, that was how Dalv regarded Kernunnos. Although Dalv wore a mask of cynicism and melancholy he was nothing of the sort. No, no. He enjoyed playing the part of the buffoon for the wise man was the buffoon when in fact the buffoon was the wise man.

The words on the map, as written in perfect Evabonese and thus something that Kernunnos could read, said "The Dell of Gold."

"Gold?" asked Kernunnos. "Who Gold?"

"The correct question, Kernunnos, would be 'What is gold?'" replied Dalv.

"What is gold?" asked Kernunnos.

"Gold, Kernunnos, is what many a weak person spends their entire life seeking. Cold, metal rocks that are a special kind of yellow."

"Why weak persons seek gold?" asked Dalv. Slowly, his grammar was improving. There were still some things that needed improvement though.

"To make themselves rich."

"What 'rich?'" asked Kernunnos.

Dalv was at a lost for words. The concept of currency was a mystery for those who used the barter system. The Albalongans used currency as did many an Evabon that the Thunderans had "civilized to an extent" used currency but to Dalv who came and went as he wished he had not an answer. The concept of rich and poor was something that Dalv did not understand and did not seek to understand. Thus Dalv gave the only answer he knew.

"It is nonsense. The Wilys have often spoken of a city of treasure that may or may not exist. They believe that finding that will make them rich."

"So knowledge makes one rich?" asked Kernunnos. In Wilusan culture, knowledge was treasure. So it was that to Kernunnos knowledge was treasure. "Why do rich people think gold will bring them knowledge and thus make them rich… Dalv, could the treasure that is not knowledge but friends be there in the dell?"

Dalv's eyes widened. That question. What if Brigid and Henti both were there?