NOTE: I haven't got reviews yet so I don't know how the whole Furling thing is going at the moment. This is another short chapter with reactions before Giya tells her story.
Chapter 20 – WHAT!?!?!?
"WHOA, whoa!" Cam held up his hands to stop her. "You're a Furling?"
Giya nodded, "Pretty much."
Daniel couldn't believe what he was hearing. "So you're from one of the four great races?"
A pained expression flashed through her eyes for a moment. "The alliance of the four great races, it…it's no more than a title now."
Daniel was confused, "What do you mean."
"Well," Giya squirmed for a moment, "the Asgard have their own problems; the Nox refuse to get involved with anyone outside their own for fear of associating themselves with violence; the Ancients wouldn't lift a finger to help anyone." her voice suddenly filled with spite and Daniel couldn't help an unjustified anger welling up in his chest. "As for the Furlings…they're gone."
Cam didn't understand, "What do you mean gone? You're here."
"I did say it was complicated." Her voice had become distant again.
Cam suddenly made a connection. "We did have a theory that you were an Ancient. Turns out we were pretty close."
"Well," Giya responded, "there are…were quite a lot of differences in evolution between the two races so there are a few variations. We have higher healing abilities, we're also disposed to be slightly taller. Probably the biggest difference though, is that Furlings can't ascend."
Daniel narrowed his eyes, "What do you mean? I thought that all beings had that ability."
"Well technically yes." The pain flashed in her eyes again, "After the Ancients left, Furlings developed a type of block when our minds subconsciously sensed that a higher plane of existence was a hostile environment in Primera. It wasn't until around ten thousand years ago, when the wraith were sieging the city of Atlantis, when they found out why."
"How could a higher plane be hostile…come to think of it, how could you have an ascended body if your race can't ascend?" asked Daniel.
"Well that's all in the next part of the story."
Cam leaned forward, "Then how about you tell us the next part of the story."
Giya closed her straining eyes, preparing to tell her own history.
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