Endor: episode #26 The Black-Orange Rock and Orange
Rocks
Previously: The Group has had their race up the
mountain. They were having a magnificent time…then Jed discovered the Wall of
Lights and everyone has gone through them.
"Try
and walk through it," suggests Calris.
He does and disappears for a minute, then
comes back and says, "It's awesome! It's some kind of other place…I don't know how it's possible, but it's
there."
Everyone follows him in as he goes in for a
second time…when they are conscious of the fat that no one has moved or said
anything, Waller breaks the ice by saying, "Well no one is here to greet
us. Id don't know where we are…this is
freaky. We should go back. We don't even know what this Wall of Lights
thingy is!"
At this
point, although they are unaware of it, The Wookiee has come out of the cave,
safely protecting Yoda in his arms and moves closer. He can make out every single word they are saying. He doesn't make it known to them that he is
around because he is scared of them. He
doesn't know what kind of creatures they may be. He's never seen a human before. He listens. The others are in agreement, but not Sky.
"I want to explore."
Walker says,
"but we don't even know where we are or what we're doing. We could be in danger! This could be a very dangerous place!"
Sky looks around for a few brief moments when
her eyes fall on orange rocks.
She says, "What are those? They're beautiful!"
She rushes over to them without thinking
anymore and reaches out to touch the biggest one. She jumps back, almost dropping the rock, but catches it.
"It's weird," she says. "It feels weird."
The longer she holds it, the more grayish it
gets.
"It's losing color! Where is all the orange going?"
Suddenly other people are touching the rocks
to examine them. They touch rocks of various sizes. There is only one rock
each size…no rocks exactly the same size. Some people choose not to touch any
at all. Walker is one of them. Jed however touches one of a slightly
different color than the one Sky touched. There is as huge black-orangish color
that is a totally different shade than any of the others. Jed did not touch the black-orangish
one. NO one did. (By the way, the exact same thing that
happened to Sky happened to everyone who touched a rock.) Soon, all the color was gone from all the
rocks except the black-orange one. All
the rocks were now gray, but that one.
"Hey," Cor recalled, "these rocks are now the
exact same color as the ones on our side of The Wall of Lights. I bet those rocks used to be orange! "
Everyone
realized his observation was correct. However, Walker wasn't really listening…he was tuned out. There as something really strange about that
black-orange rock. It seemed to be
beckoning him. He decided it was just
silly and that it wasn't really calling him…that he was imagining it. He looked at the black-orange rock
menacingly. He snapped back to reality when Sky tapped him on the shoulder.
"We have a problem," she said, "The Wall of
Lights is gone!"
"What?" screamed Walker. "That can't be!"
He went to go see for himself and sure
enough, it was!
"Now we're stuck here in this strange
place! We don't even know where we
are! We'd better have some weapons
since we don't know what kind of creatures might be lurking around somewhere!"
He takes out his carving knife.
"I'm the one
that got us here…it's my fault! I
should have known better than to trust Id and Iot! How could I have been so stupid? And now we're stuck in some
strange land. I got us here. The least I could do is build something to
defend ourselves by. Here, someone give
me a rock."
Someone hands him one of the gray used-up
rocks. He puts the knife into it a
little ways and quickly realizes that it's too brittle. He tries another gray one. It does the same thing. He soon realizes all the gray rocks
are like that.
"Now
what!"
He looks
away in despair.
Until next
time!
