Ragnarok 03 - Resonance
“Alongside Seeker-once-Harij and Seeker-once-captive, they should be enough to respond to flux-queries from within the vessel – or so they believed.
Zirkana’s thoughts were entirely different.
**It cannot fly.** The excavation had completely uncovered the ancient vessel, which looked . . . younger. Newer. Vast and lustrous, dark green banded with white. It seemed capable of holding hundreds, perhaps a thousand sleeping people stacked in bunks, as the ancient legend said.
**In dreams through gold...en space they fled/Till xeno demons cut them dead.** There was more to the old verse but, even among Seekers, few bothered with it; for it was clearly allegory and filled with indecipherable allusion: for one thing, space was most obviously black. In the absence of other Ideas from that period, the references made little sense today.
What had surprised the two hundred workers as they dug sand, brushed hardened clumps from the uncovered ship, and polished every part, was that the underlying metal – if it was metal: its properties were odd – had failed to deteriorate despite being buried for so long, a great many generations.MoreLess
Zirkana’s thoughts were entirely different.
**It cannot fly.** The excavation had completely uncovered the ancient vessel, which looked . . . younger. Newer. Vast and lustrous, dark green banded with white. It seemed capable of holding hundreds, perhaps a thousand sleeping people stacked in bunks, as the ancient legend said.
**In dreams through gold...en space they fled/Till xeno demons cut them dead.** There was more to the old verse but, even among Seekers, few bothered with it; for it was clearly allegory and filled with indecipherable allusion: for one thing, space was most obviously black. In the absence of other Ideas from that period, the references made little sense today.
What had surprised the two hundred workers as they dug sand, brushed hardened clumps from the uncovered ship, and polished every part, was that the underlying metal – if it was metal: its properties were odd – had failed to deteriorate despite being buried for so long, a great many generations.MoreLess
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