#The History of Thra According to Mars: Part 2

[adara-of-the-flame]

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If one could take a picture of the dwarf’s face in that moment, it would not only speak a thousand words of his confusion but a good two thousand. At least for those first few seconds as his mind tried to make sense of what his friend was trying to explain…..in her own round about way.

”…..you come from another realm with multiple suns and moons. It has a floating crystal as well as a physical avatar at the center of it’s existence. During major eclipses of, I’m assuming, all major celestial bodies, weird things happen. Like powerful visitors appearing from seemingly nowhere…..“

He repeats back in a much more concise and simple way, face squinting in concentration.

"I believe I’ve got it. Please continue…”

She was totally a fairy.

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"Well, I was made there, yes. But, I was raised on Earth. That's why I know so many Earth songs." The half-Urru raised a long, explainative finger. "I guess I'm one of those people that have like, dual citizenship or something. Which is really cool."

By now, Mars had propped her chin up on her first pair of folded hands. "So, anyway, a thousand years pass, and the Urskeks do their thing with helping to 'civilize' the people of Thra, which I don't think they needed anyway, but then it becomes time for the Urskeks to go back home..and, something bad happens.

"You see, they'd already lost contact with their homeworld, and they were getting antsy, and I can't imagine how homesick they were, and they just wanted to go home, and nothing, NOTHING could go wrong at the next conjuction or they'd be stuck there. ...And, then Aughra's son, Raunip, who never liked the Urskeks, and thought they were secretly evil, but I think he was just jealous his Mom was giving them so much attention, just had to notice one of them was showing a dark heart in their chest and he started pointing it out to his Mother, and making fun of the Dark Hearted one, and well, the Dark Hearted one was really, really insecure about that, and it was probably why he was exiled on Thra, and this was ALL taking place durring the conjuciton and Dark Heart's pain and insecurity was pretty much poisoining the ritual because he was different and that's a bad thing in Urskek society, and all the other Urskeks got scared they were going to be stuck on Thra for another thousand years, and everything was just going wrong, and they just...split!"

Mars demonstrated by taking two raised fingers together, and separated them quickly. "The Urskeks split into two separate beings! And, they didn't even look like Urskeks! "

“I don’t think I’ll ever get used to the stench of this terrible blog…bleck!”