(I would have had been done with this a while ago, but as told to me by The Awes0me 0ne, I had written everything wrong and it took me some time to edit most of the chapters and I haven't finished all of it yet. But what I have finished is this chapter that was a little confusing to write at some points. So enjoy!)

Chapter 16 Brick By Brick

An exhausted Soturi scaled over a large rock formation. He was hoping to beat his brother to the top of Iso Kivi, but it looked as if he wouldn't even beat the sun to the top. Soturi jumped down from a boulder and gazed up at the summit. It was closer than he had thought and it brought a sliver of confidence to his heart when he saw the signal still shining. Soturi sucked in some of the light air and marched on at a brisk pace. It had taken him fifteen minutes to reach his destination. However, when he saw a figure sitting next to a campfire, it completely crushed his spirit. Soturi didn't realize that it wasn't Veli who was sitting next to the fire, so it startled the prince when he heard someone else's voice. He looked up and realized who it was.

"Orion? What are you doing up here?"

"Well, I do live up here." Magic Man said, gesturing over to a small house that sat next to a large rock and was the same color as the rock. Thirty feet above the large rock was the bright red light that had signaled him and his brother to start climbing the volcano. Soturi would talk to his new friend after he claimed a victory that several minutes ago, seemed impossible. The prince climbed to the top of the rock and the light began to drop. When it was within arm's reach, Soturi lifted his arms up and grabbed the light. Then the light faded to reveal a dull gray orb about the size of a softball that had his name written in red letters. The symbol that he had completed the task first and was one step closer to becoming the next King of Rumah.

"Why do you live all the way up here?" Soturi asked as he slid back down the rock.

"Because it's my very own Tower of Light. I can see the true beauty of this desert. I can see the horizon curve. I can practice my magic and no one can say anything about it" Soturi sat next to Magic Man as he gazed outward, not really paying attention to the last thing he said and agreeing that sometimes you have to take a few big steps back to enjoy a work of art. Soturi looked down at the orb in his hand and studied it. He started to wonder why it was in his hands and not his brother's. Veli should have beaten him to the top by a few hours.

"Where is he?" Soturi whispered to himself.

Three savages were walking through a dense jungle. Two of them carried a stick that held the products of a successful hunt; two dead ocelots, one jaguar that still had an arrow head lodged in its skull, and a live adolescent prince who was surprised that his spine hadn't snapped from the dense gravity and the position these people had tied him in. They had taken Veli to big village that was hidden among the trees. The buildings were nothing more that huts made out of branches and tall grass woven tightly together. Most of the males had the same generic look, slender tan bodies that wore little to nothing. The women wore similar clothing, just more of it. The people had either black or brown hair. All of them stared at Veli as if he was some kind of demon, a demon that was still very confused. The two men carrying the stick dropped off the three dead animals next to a fire to be prepared to eat. Veli gave a sigh of relief when the men continued onward and hadn't set him next to the fire, which reassured him that the people he was with weren't cannibals.

They brought the prince to a larger hut that was filled with a sweet smelling smoke. When Veli was turned sideways, he saw an older man that was covered in bright feathers around his wrists, ankles, waist, and head. The village chieftain. Veli was set down on the ground while the two men talked to their chief, he tried to understand what they were saying but to him it was nothing but gibberish. This is what their conversation consisted of. "Chieftain, we found this boy in the jungle. His tongue is that not of the Aztec's or Inca's. He cannot stand but can move his legs. He is taller than me and I am assuming that he is half my age and his skin is white. This is the strangest boy I have ever seen."

The chieftain slowly walked up to the prince and placed the tips of his fingers on Veli's forehead.

"I will see for myself how strange this boy is." He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Veli could feel a tingling sensation start in his head then travel down his spine and to the ends of his nerves. He witnessed all of his memories, everything he had ever done, everyone he had ever met, flash before his eyes in a matter of seconds. When he had played with his first toys as a baby. When he, as well as the entire city, attended his mother's memorial service after dying giving birth to Soturi. When he waved to Rinnat, the girl he'd known most of his life, not fourteen hours ago. They were all there. Once all of the tingling stopped and the memories faded, Veli breathed out a single word. "Whoa." After several seconds of silence, the prince could fully understand the Chieftain when said.

"He means us no harm."

"How can you be so sure?" Said one of the men, shooting Veli a dirty look. Veli's eyes widened. The last thing he expected was to be able to understand the words of any of these people. Out of the shock, Veli answered the man's question himself.

"Because I am a prince." Now it was the men's turn to be surprised. "A prince who would like to return to his home."

"Chieftain, how can we understand this boy?"

"I was actually about to ask the same question." Veli said, trying to turning his head to face the Chieftain, who explained as he freed Veli from his bindings

"What I have is a rare gift among our people. I can use the life energy of any living being to the benefit of my tribe. For example, I have just embedded our language into your mind so that it is now your second language."

"That makes doesn't make much sense." Veli said, trying to stand so that he could thank the Chieftain, but found that he was still having trouble with the gravity on this planet.

"Well I don't know any other way to explain it. Uh, do you need help?" The Chieftain asked. Veli gave a nod and the Chieftain called for the man who had shot Veli that dirty look to take him to his hut until he learned how to walk again, only because his hut was the closest. The man sulked as he obeyed his Chieftain, lifted one of Veli's arms over his shoulders and aided the prince out. As the two made their way to the man's hut, Veli challenged himself to walk alongside the man but he could only drag his feet and try to make conversation with him.

"Might I ask what your name is?" The man held the stern expression that he'd been holding for some time now when he finally gave in and started to talk back.

"My name is Jabras, and I am eager to help get you better."

"Oh, well that's…"

"So you may leave as soon as possible." Jabras said so coldly, you could almost see the frost coming out of his mouth. Veli turned his head toward the hut that they were walking to with an uneasy look.

"Oh."

Veli was held up in the doorway of the hut as Jabras' wife and son came up to greet him. Out of all the three, Jabras' son had taken the most interest in Veli. So Jabras left his son to help the prince recover, which he was happy to do so. The son's name was Durab, and he was no more than ten years old. Durab had gathered some of his friends and soon enough six children had followed Veli's instructions by holding onto his limbs and torso, and making him walk around their village like a big puppet. Two hours after doing that, Veli was able to limp around and also raise his arms up and down for a while until all of his muscles ached. The prince collapsed onto the grass and waited for a cool breeze that would never come as the Chieftain came up to him.

"Not to sound rude, but what would you like?" Veli said, tilting his head up to take deep breaths.

"I was wondering if you wanted something to eat." The Chieftain said, holding up a piece of meat that he was holding. Veli lifted himself up into a sitting position, happily took the meat, and almost inhaled it.

"You might find it interesting. What you are eating, is the same jaguar that found you at the same time our hunters did." Veli paused mid-bite and looked down at what was sticking out of his mouth. For some strange reason he had lost his appetite as soon as he understood that what he was eating now, had tried to eat him not long ago.

Veli stood up to test his legs and handed the meat back to the Chieftain. "Well I find that it's something." The prince said, slightly repulsed. He looked up at the clear night sky and among the masses of stars; he saw a small red dot. "I do think it is about time I returned home." The Chieftain nodded and called for one of the hunters that found Veli.

"Our friend wishes to return home, would you be so kind as to guide, umm. You never gave us your name, did you?

"Veli, Prince of Rumah, and it was a pleasure to meet all of you."

Fifty-five minutes later, Veli and the hunter arrived at the clearing where the big cat was killed right next to him. The moonlit vegetation gave off an eerie sensation that something else would pop out and attack. The hunter assisted the prince up the steep hill and into the vine covered entrance of the cave he found himself in when he arrived on this planet. Veli bid farewell to the hunter as he entered the cave and by the time the hunter was halfway down the hill a flash of purple caught his eye, when he turned his head up and around, the hunter saw nothing but the clear night sky.

Once Veli was back on Iso Kivi, he climbed out of the hole he had fallen into, relieved that he had the dense gravity of that green and blue planet off of his shoulders and continued to climb to the summit of the dormant volcano. With only a few short rests, the prince reached the top. The first thing he saw was Soturi sitting on a rock, concentrating extremely hard on a smaller rock. Veli was about to ask what he doing, but before he could get a single word out Soturi shot up his hand to silence him. Veli shrugged and sat down next to his brother, waiting for something to happen. The rock Soturi was concentrating so hard on actually lifted up into the air. It stayed there for three seconds until it fell back to the ground. The jaws of the two brothers dropped almost instantly. Veli stayed in his surprised state, while Soturi jumped up and cheered. While he had been waiting for Veli, Soturi had convinced his new friend to tell why they call him Magic Man and instead of just telling the prince, he said anyone can learn this stuff and taught Soturi one of his many unreal tricks. Long ago literately everyone could do the same tricks as Magic Man could. Rumah was once a civilization that had used science and magic in perfect harmony. But eventually the curiosity of science's many un-answered questions outweighed the magic and ultimately magic faded out of the Ruman culture. It was science that created all of their problems such as the revolt of the lizards, but it was magic that saved them. Yet today the people of Rumah still depend on the technology and science to live their daily lives.

Magic had been lost for ages until one man discovered an ancient manuscript of the arts hidden inside a wall. That man was Orion. He had made it his sole purpose in life to first learn what the entire book had to offer and then branch out his knowledge to the rest of the city. He was still learning most of the enchantments and could only do minor things such as levitate small objects, and teleport. But soon Orion will be able to do more, much more, and will earn the name others mock him with: Magic Man.

"I can't believe it actually worked!" Soturi cried, running toward the small house to tell Orion. While Veli just sat there, rubbing his temples. "This is officially the strangest day of my life, and I have a feeling that it's going to get even stranger."

The next thirty minutes were spent inside Magic Man's humble abode explaining Veli's involvements on the next planet over with the intelligent life forms that look like short, tanned Rumans and the two who were listening were a little skeptical.

"Are you serious?"

"Soturi, I'm swallowing my pride when I say that you, are the smartest and most creative person in the entire city. I've seen the stuff you've been working on; it's incredible!" Veli said, referring to the medium sized yet complex androids that Soturi has been tinkering with for years. "Do you honestly think that I could make up something like that?"

"So what does that mean?" Magic Man asked.

"It means that when we finish climbing down Iso Kivi, we'll be heading to the archives to do some research." Soturi said, just before Magic Man placed his hands on both of the brothers' left shoulder.

Orion said, "Why wait. I'm just as curious as the both of you."

Before Veli could say "what?", Magic Man had teleported all three of them to the eastern gate of Rumah. Magic Man rushed past Soturi and Veli but they immediately stopped him.

"Wait a second, you- you can teleport?"

"What, you mean you two can't." He said, smiling as he turned back around and continued onward.

The brothers looked at each other with annoyed expressions. The exact same thing popped into their heads; if Orion could teleport anywhere he wanted, why was he so late to the Otella tournament. "I think I know why his team hated him now."

After that, the three then traveled to the Ruman Archives, a moderate sized room that lay underneath the palace and was covered with polished, black hexagonal tiles where they dug through enough information that would have made an entire set of encyclopedias gasp. But the only thing that really stuck out was one of the genetic experiments done millions of years ago. Cloning. Forty-seven clones had been created and all marked as failures due to the fact that each and every clone was only about four feet tall, covered with thick fur apart from the narrow face, and to top it all they had the brain power of a toddler. They could learn, but at a very slow rate. The life span of these clones never lasted very long, sixty to seventy years at the most. When the Ruman's abandoned the planet long ago, the scientists that hadn't been killed by their mistakes put the rest of their experiments in individual cryogenic casings in what they called the Pusat Sains, a building over twice the size of the Rose bowl that rested on the surface of the ocean and above a very deep abyss where they conducted most of the experiments. In case they ever returned. The Pusat Sains was placed above the abyss because it was the perfect place to work with the genetic tests; they could reach down into the black abyss and pull back out life at its purest form, single cell organisms that emerged from the undersea volcanos and that in the scientist's eyes held great potential. The scientists twisted the shape of the single cell organisms to make them into anything they wanted.

That was the jist of what the archives had to say and Soturi had come up with some very thought provoked ideas of what happened after the Rumans had left. All of the experiments that that were placed in a cryogenic stasis stayed in the Pusat Sains for a very long time. Up until a time where Soturi guessed around four million years ago, an immense seismic quake occurred somewhere under the ocean and ripped open the center as if it was a paper box. The Pusat Sains sank to the bottom of the abyss, while all of the capsules drifted along with the ocean currents until they reached land and thawed out enough to emerge out of their capsules and populated the land and the water. However if the experiments couldn't survive in their new habitats, over time they would have either evolved to accommodate to the new surroundings or just died out. They do have files in the archives on that being a fact. Several cases were witnessed during the trial periods of a few experiments. And eventually the clones that were short and hairy, evolved into something that would look like a modern day Ruman. An intelligent, bipedal organism with pinkish skin, a tuff of hair on the head that could differ in various colors and football shaped eyes that could be seen in different shades of blue, green, brown, and sometimes red or grey.

"It sounds completely insane, but based on what's happened to me in the past forty-two hours I'm willing to believe just about anything the universe has to throw at me."

Everyone stood in silence and stared at the wall where all of the information was displayed. Soturi tilted his head in thought, his eyes darted back and forth as he played out different scenarios in his mind.

"Whatya thinking so hard about there, Soturi?" Magic Man asked, catching the prince off guard.

"Huh, oh. W-well, it's just an idea. But I think one day soon we three should visit these 'Mayans' and help them."

"Help them how?" Soturi did not answer his brother directly, he merely turned to him and gestured to the archives around them. Magic Man's eyes widened in surprise, he had never thought anyone in the city could think or would ever suggest something like that, especially not the prince.

"Are you insane!?" Orion screamed. "Amongst the few laws we have here in Rumah, you think we should just break the biggest of them all!"

"Technically, we won't be breaking anything because the law says that the archives can only be accessed by Rumans and Rumans alone and those Mayans are the descendants of Ruman clones."

"Soturi's making a lot of sense Orion, and I think it is our jobs, as two Princes of Rumah, to help each and every descendant of our ancestors. Even if they were born in a test tube." Veli said, pride clear in his voice. Magic Man opened his mouth to protest but nothing came out, no one could argue with that kind of logic. "Plus I know Soturi better than anyone else. Once he has his mind set on something he sees it through until the end."

The next fifteen years went by pretty fast. Of course fifteen years to a Ruman would be about a week to a human in perspective standards. But during that time, Veli had Soturi build a secret room where the gravity could be raised slowly, so when they returned to the planet, they would already be adjusted to the dense gravity. All three had scheduled times inside the room, of course when it did not interfere with the princes' Rite of Passage: Soturi had most of the morning to tinker, Orion had the all of the afternoon to practice his magic, and Veli had all night long to workout. The three would often have meetings in this room to discuss what they had in plan for the Mayans. They had hammered out most of the details but the main idea was to show those primitive people that they can live easier, without having to forage for scraps, without living in huts made out of the jungle around them, and grant them a brighter future.

The gravity room now holds an exhausted Veli who had just finished a session of intense exercise. As he walked out of the room he was surprised to hear a female voice. The prince removed the sweaty towel from his head and bear shoulders to turn around and see Rinnat sitting up against the wall, waiting patiently for Veli to come back out.

"Rinnat? What are you doing here?"

"I came here to see you."

"Yes, but only three people know about here. How in the world did you find out about this pla…?" Veli stopped in mid-sentence when he figured it out by himself. "You made Soturi squeal, didn't you?"

"Squeal is a strong word. I just have ways that make people talk." Rinnat said as innocently as possible, but both of them knew that she wasn't that kind of person. Everyone who knows Rinnat thinks of her as this sweet young woman with a great personality. The truth was that Veli was the only one who knew the real Rinnat. She was this tenacious girl who almost always gets what she wants if not with her looks, then with her attitude. "But I'm not here to talk about myself. What exactly have you been doing?"

"My job as prince."

"And what exactly does that job hold?" Rinnat asked, standing up to look Veli in the eyes, even though she was a few inches shorter than him.

"I can't tell you, not yet."

"Why not. You have told me every secret you've ever had and I've told you all of mine and kept all of them, so what's one more?"

"Because this secret is much bigger than you and me, it's something that will change our future, hopefully for the better. Why are you being so nosey anyway?"

"Well I just wanted to know if a person like you needed any kind of help." She said meekly. Veli smiled, Rinnat had always wanted to be with the prince. She'd always had feelings for him, ever since they were young children, but had never gotten the courage to tell him. But only in the past couple of decades has Veli noticed those feelings and started to feel the same way. He brought his hand up the base of Rinnat's head and pushed his fingers through her soft hair. She knew what was about to happen and relaxed most of her muscles.

"A person like me only needs one thing." Veli closed his eyes as he quickly but carefully pushed Rinnat's head towards his and placed his forehead on hers. This was the Ruman equivalent of a kiss. Shortly after Rinnat wrapped her arms around his neck and leaned into Veli, someone at the end of the hall cleared their throat. The two parted their foreheads and turned to see Orion with a guilty expression on his face. He saw the whole thing and didn't want to interrupt them, but he really had no choice.

"Veli, your brother wants to meet the both of us right now. He says it's important."

"I'm sorry Rinnat." The prince whispered into Rinnat's ear as he let go of her and walked toward Orion. "This better be good."

Five minutes later all three were back in the archives. Soturi had spent most of his free time out of the gravity room inside the archives digging through whatever information might be useful to them as well as going over the information they had already gathered.

"This better be good little brother, or I am going to hit you."

"Oh it is." Soturi said, holding up a black tablet shaped like a pentagon. It was similar to an iPad, only much more advanced. It has some games, it can play some music, and it can also create elaborately detailed holograms and erect building in a matter of seconds by being buried in the ground and gathering rock that lies deep below the surface and shaping it to fit the holographic design of the building. Everyone calls this tablet a sion. Soturi tapped on the sion and a three dimensional image of a primitive city that would span a little over twelve square miles appeared as a hologram, this city consisted of a marketplace, and over two thousand apartment complexes, some three stories high. Of course these plans were incomplete, they would have to ask the natives if they would want to make changes and add anything. Not to mention that where they decide to place this city might be altered by the land.

"I think we're ready to help these Mayans. We have the blue prints and the archives. Everything else we need, the land and the people, will be waiting for us planet side."

"Great, so when do we leave?" Orion asked.

"As soon as we can get to the transporter." Soturi said, nodding at Orion and signaling him to teleport all of them. Magic Man put his right hand on Soturi but when he reached for Veli, he backed away and said.

"You two go ahead and wait by the transporter, I'll be there in a little while. There's something I have to get first." The two looked at Veli with confused eyes until Orion shrugged and teleported the prince and himself away. And with those two gone, Veli rushed out of the archives to try and find Rinnat. 'Time for that secret.'

Fifteen minutes later Veli and Rinnat were walking hand in hand through the eastern gate of Rumah, where they were greeted by Magic Man. He was there mainly to save time.

"Really, that's what you had to go get." He said, sounding uncertain.

"Don't give me any of that, Soturi is bringing you along as a friend. I don't see why I can't do the same with Rinnat." Orion shrugged again and placed his hand on Veli's shoulder. The prince knew when he talked to Soturi about Rinnat that it would turn into a heated argument. But when they appeared in the grotto Veli discovered by accident, Soturi was too eager about what they were about to do and didn't seem to care that she was there. Veli was the first to step onto the transporter. Once he was on the big blue and green marble, he remembered the dense gravity of the planet and how it would reduce Rinnat to a talking carpet as soon as she stepped off of that transporter. So he stood next to the machine and waited to catch her when she fell. When Soturi and Magic Man followed they saw Veli holding his new sweetheart in a fireman's carry.

"Follow me. The village shouldn't be too far away." Veli said making his way through the vine covered opening. When everyone was out of the cave, the color green overwhelmed them as they carefully slid down the steep hill. Luck was on their side when they made it to the village and saw nothing that would bare its fangs at any of them, however the moment they set foot within the village they were greeted with men holding spears and drawn arrows. Veli was the only one in the group who was still cool, calm and collected. He slowly and carefully placed Rinnat down to his left as he addressed the Mayans in their language. Veli chose his word wisely and spoke in the softest voice he could muster.

"Brothers, please lower your weapons. We come in peace and mean you no harm. We only want to give you all a grand opportunity."

"What kind of opportunity?" One of the men asked.

"We wish for your people to move out of the little huts and into a city that we will build for you. We want you as a civilization and as our friends to grow and prosper." That the Mayans understood almost perfectly, they exchanged uncertain looks that slowly transformed into unbelieving glares. But the weapons still stayed up.

"What is a city?" Another man asked.

Veli sighed and asked his brother for the sion, he brought up the holographic blue prints and all of the men as well as some of the villagers who were watching experienced a new kind of fear. One of the men who had an arrow drawn actually quickly aimed at the city and let go of the bow string; the arrow passed harmlessly through the hologram and landed in a tree not far away. Once most of the Mayans calmed down, Veli explained that this would be their new home if they wanted it to be. It could be done in seven days, less if some volunteered to help. As Veli continued to explain one of the men who was twenty-five years old noticed the teenage girl lying on the ground and it brought back a vague memory.

"What's wrong with her?" He asked. Veli turned back to Rinnat and she smiled up at him, and after returning the smile he answered the man.

"She can't walk, not yet." Immediately the man released the tension on the bow string and lowered his weapon to show a very surprised face. He quickly walked up to Veli and asked one more question.

"Do you remember me?" Veli didn't really know how to respond to that. He looked at the man's smiling face and it did ring a bell, but he could not recall who this man was. Just as Veli started to nod 'no' the man then realized how could he remember him, it was so long ago for the man, so the man got down on both knees making him shorter. Almost in an instant Veli recognized him. This man was the young boy Durab who had helped Veli learn how to walk around in this high gravity. So the theory that these Mayans were clones became more fact than theory.

"Wow, they really do grow up so fast."

Durab ordered everyone else to put their weapons away and told the four visitors to follow him. He led them to the same hut the two hunters brought Veli to when he first arrived in the village. Inside was the chieftain of the village, not the one Veli had met who was more than likely dead at this point and time, but a new chieftain whose face Veli remembered as Jabras. He had not aged as well as his son. Jabras looked as if stress had been eating away at him for some time. Veli also remembered how he didn't particularly like the prince, why he didn't know. The prince gave Jabras the same speech he gave the men outside, but he wasn't as convinced

"There will be no city. My people have lived safely in this jungle this for generations, moving the entire tribe out of the hidden brush and into a big city will make us a big target for the Aztecs. We have been at war with them for three years now."

"What if we make peace between you two." Veli said, stepping forward in confidence. Jabras and Durab actually laughed at Veli's proposal. Durab was the first to reply to him.

"The Aztecs are a violent tribe that seldom takes no for an answer."

"However if you can, by the gods' hands, secure peace between us than I will agree to the city idea." Veli turned back to his friends and explained what they had to do, and with a sigh of regret they agreed. Veli also told Durab to help Rinnat become familiar with the gravity while they were away, and then with the help of a Mayan warrior the three had conducted a plan on how they might make peace on the way to the Aztec village.

Soturi had notice how scared the natives were about the hologram of the city and he said that they should just lie through their teeth, saying that the native's gods had sent them to stop the fighting. While Veli is telling that to the Aztecs, Soturi will make something from a sion to scare them right out of their skin. The plan was stupid enough to where it just might work, mainly because Rumans have no religion. The reason for that is because the sciences are so advanced that it has explained all of the legends and myths of their ancient faith. Hopefully the plan would work and the three will walk away with their heads still attached.

Long story short, the plan went off without a hitch, peace flourished between the Mayans and the Aztecs, and the City of Teotihuacan, or as Orion called it New Rumah, was built in less than a week. The location of the city was in the center of a valley close to an active volcano. Two rivers passed through the city and emptied out into a very large lake. The only changes to the city's design were four main structures. Separate pyramids for the natives to worship both the sun and the planet's one moon. Those two pyramids were purposefully placed by Soturi to mark the winter and summer solstices, a long and wide stretch of road sticking out against all of the other narrow streets called the Avenue of the Dead, and a citadel where a smaller temple was built in honor of the ones who gave the natives this city. The Coatl pyramid as it is called, a direct translation would be 'feathered serpent' but the true meaning of the word is creator. A large number of the apartment complexes had shifted the first floor of the building into some kind of shop. They had built schools, not only for the children but for the adults as well. There the concepts of math with zero and large numbers, along with astronomy and metallurgy, they were taught by holograms at first, then by the people who could teach it to anyone else who wanted to be educated. The formation of a calendar that used celestial alignments helped the people with their farming and would be accurate for almost two thousand years. But their year one is one hundred and sixteen years after the death of Jesus Christ. The city's population was well over four thousand. Since Teotihuacan was so large, the Mayans offered the Aztecs sanctuary inside the city and they accepted the gift. Then and there, the two tribes became known as the Maytecs.

Now Veli, Soturi, and Magic Man sat at the top of Pyramid of the Sun, the larger of the two and surveyed everything that they had done. Veli looked down toward the bottom of the pyramid and smiled when he saw Rinnat talking to a young girl as she braded her hair. The prince had Magic Man teach Soturi, Rinnat, and himself the native language the same way the old chieftain did with Veli, and they were grateful for it. They had created peace and tranquility with this city, they had gained the trust of an entire race of people who not a week ago, were on the verge of slitting each other's throats. All in all, they had done a good and bad thing. If anyone from Rumah found out about this city, they would all be sentenced to death and nothing could save them from it, not even the King's authority could prevent it. They won't realize this yet but, this city will prove a point to the entire population of Rumah. That no matter what you do, no matter how many lives you have changed for the better, some things will never change.

(Please review, I'm always open to constructive criticism and ideas from anyone who's willing to give any.)