It comes from below.
The Mermidal people had always known the path off their planet would be down, not up. Born on a super-Earth only five light-years form the center of the galaxy, nothing could survive on the surface. Their technology could barely get them half-way to the ocean’s surface to explore. Deep sea life was the only life, and it killed them to know there was a whole universe out of their reach.
Nodan wasn’t willing to let cosmic rays hold hir down. Unlike the other warriors who tried win honor by creeping closer to the surface, Nodan knew ze had to go down. The deeper ze went, the stranger the life seemed to get. Some of it was edible, but most was not. Then one day, ze saw bubbles. Something was expelling gas eighteen miles beneath the surface of the ocean!
Donning hir armor, ze followed the bubbled and found a ring of energy. A strange life-form passed through the ring. It was a wormhole! This was how hir people could finally explore the universe!
The alien life form had a strange shape, and Nodan could not allow this enemy incursion into hir territory. Ze watched its movements, but it didn’t seem suited for deep sea living. It had no fins. And then, it activated the most heinous and blinding light Nodan had ever encountered. Ze squeezed hir eyelids closed, relying on smell and the movement of water currents. The Mermidal were solitary creatures, but Nodan knew if ze attacked alone, ze would lose.
Their people would have to come together to fight this enemy incursion, or their entire world would be lost.
~FIN~
Special thanks to today’s contributing artist, Charley.
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