DW: Looks at all the cobwebs...WOW! Where have I been:Ponders: Drats...12+hour long days for 7 days straight...I realy hate my job right now...Anyway, I got a jot of inspiration, and it is for all you still keeping an eye out for me!
Disclaimer: Not mine. I own nothing...the military owns me!
If I could tell you my name, it wouldn't matter. I've been alone for so long, that I barely remember it myself. All around me is dust, and rock. I walk a barren planet, aged by a millenia, this planet, once called Earth by it's inhabitants, has finally passed on.
In a year or two, it will finally explode, sending chunks of itself into the great beyond, affecting untold numbers of planets. The creatures that once called it home had mostly left thousands of years ago in a suspended animation state until they reached their destination. I do not know if they reached their destination or not. It is one of the things I planned to see about once my guardienship over this rocky terrain had expired. But until then I would think of more pleasent things.
One such pleasent things, was the memory of the grestest city this planet had ever seen. More famed than Athens, than Rome, with more knowledge and learning than in teh whole libary of Alexandria. It was called Crystal Tokyo for the gleaming crystal spires. And it was all the more lovely because of the rulers.
A more kind and gentel Queen and King ther could not have been. They ruled fairly and with compassion. This alone made the people of their city loved. And there was no crime. Mostly there was nothing to steal. Everyone worked for the common good and thus everyone shared thier work. If one faltered, ther would be another there to help take up the slack.
Evil had no root there, and light was purity itself. The air was sweet and fragerent, not this stale and putrid stench here now. And being a guard there was simplicity in itself. I was once a royal guard responsible for the royal family's safety. And more importantly to me, myself and the other guards were long time friends with her Majesty. I would have rather been tortuted for eternity and killed before I would have let anything happen to her.
But she's gone now. She and the others left when this planet was dying. She was distraught at the thought of leaving this planet alone, so I volunteered to stay behind and guard it to the last. Myself and a few other humans stayed, but it was devistating to see the others age, whither and die while I remained untouched by time.
To see them age and die, much like seeing this planet I was born onto die, was very emotionally draining. It killed a part of me to watch this place slowly deteroriate. Everything I cared about was gone, dust like this once lush and beautiful planet. To see nothing but this dust and rock, tired me like nothing else ever had. I could feel drowsey just thinking about it. A day or two long nap couldn't hurt. Not like there was anything else demanding my time at the moment.
Sorry about the shortness, but until I actually get a weekend, I only have about an hour a day of free time. If I can, I'll try to get out another bit in a day or two. I hope it's at least intriguing. Some fo my cohorts at work think it's interesting, but that could only be because it's not text book stuff. Heh. Hope you like. If I don't get any responses, then I'll think no one wants to read this, and won't continue. Sorry folks, but thems the breaks! -8
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