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Old 10-22-2021, 07:48 PM
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The Lorn (Sci-Fi)

A post-retirement sci-fi/horror vignette about discovering strange hope amidst circumstances of very unusual enforced forms of dark experience, inspired loosely by the eerie life-deformity themes presented in the iconic novel, The Time Machine (HG Wells), which may be interpreted as a 'tale' of two destinies.






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Amlan and Sasha, husband-and-wife escaped Earth after the great World War Holocaust on the NASA space-shuttle and flew at light-speeds away from the decaying once blue-planet and its cursed solar-system. They sped away until they reached a faraway galaxy and found themselves wandering around in their shuttle until they discovered a strange organic green colored planet and decided to land on it, since it exhibited signs of organic life, as detected by their organic-signature shuttle radar-computer system. They deboarded their shuttle, the Wish, and began trekking around the surface of this strange organic planet, which they named Decameron.

AMLAN: It seems there might be an underground city here.
SASHA: Let's explore the cave-system by those hills, darling.

As the two valiant human survivors from faraway Earth explored the tunnel-system in the caves inside the nooks of the hills on Planet Decameron, they found a stairway which led down to deep levels of the cave and revealed a vast lit up city. They were immediately greeted by guardian humanoids with big eyes and hairy arms and long sabers who called themselves the Keepers and were told they'd be 'escorted' to the city's elder-council to present themselves as diplomat-aliens from a faraway planet. When they reached the council floor, they were shown the history of this foreign planet by the elder-council.

The elder-council was composed of very old looking sage-like humanoids, also with big eyes, but not with hairy arms. The elder-council then instructed some of the maidservants and grooming butlers of their underground city to nurse Amlan and Sasha to vitality and relieve them of the shock they'd endured while on Earth because of their horrible World War. The two human survivors were taken to a special suite where they'd serve as special 'librarians' or diplomats from Earth with the very basic task of simply keeping files of the history 'videos' of this foreign planet ('Decameron') while being feed immortality-potions to keep them from aging. They were also told they'd be kept in a sanctuary in their suite and never mingle with other members of the species of Planet Decameron.

As Amlan and Sasha grew accustomed to this new and surprisingly comfy life on Planet Decameron under the diplomatic care of the elder-council in their underground 'suite' while serving as 'librarians' of the videos of Decameron's long history, they learned more and more about this strange species of humanoids on this foreign planet. The videos the elder-council provided them detailed the long anthropological history of the experience of the developing civilization of the planet, and so, Amlan/Sasha discovered all the marvels and material science of the Planet Decameron, studying its special evolution of governance, art, warfare, technology, and even romance and love.

AMLAN: This new video detailing the experiments is eerie.
SASHA: This planet is more unusual than imagined, darling.

In the latest video they'd been advised to record and file in their library-joined computer-system in their private lavish diplomat-suite in the underground city of Planet Decameron, the Earth human survivor pair Amlan/Sasha discovered a very strange development in the history of the species living on the foreign planet. During a pivotal shift in governance/warfare, the species on the planet decided to categorize an entire 'clan' of beings on their planet as 'test-subjects' for response-recordings of extreme torture and bloody murder. This clan, the Naboo, was renamed the Lorn, by the elder-council of Planet Decameron.

AMLAN: If we simply remain in this suite as diplomat-librarians, we'll be safe.
SASHA: The elder-council intention is to keep us 'shielded' from all intrigue!

Amlan/Sasha felt helpless and didn't know any way to help the forlorn 'clan' enslaved on Planet Decameron, the once proud Naboo who liked fishing and dancing, who're now test-subjects for horrific torture and murder 'experiments' conducted by the warrior-clan and science-rogues of Planet Decameron and hence 'renamed' as the conspicuous 'Lorn' clan by the elder-council. Amlan/Sasha saw horrific videos of this forlorn/renamed 'Lorn' clan enslaved on Planet Decameron enduring all sorts of psychological and physical tortures and assaults and impalements and decapitations and skin-removals and bone-breaking. The Lorn had become the 'scapegoat' catharsis-species for the other beings on Planet Decameron.

AMLAN: We can at least mourn and pray for this clan the Lorn, darling.
SASHA: Our prayers are simply all the Lorn can expect from us, Amlan!

The Lorn were truly forsaken. However, as Amlan/Sasha prayed for them every night before going to sleep, there arose in the planet a strange 'mystical mist' in the atmosphere which gave way to an Aurora-Borealis like color-light signature, perhaps because the unheard silent screams of the forsaken/enslaved 'Lorn' clan had somehow created a metaphysical/atmospheric 'veil' or 'dark cloud' of ominous reckoning, finally spiritually lifted by the conscious brain-wave prayers made by Amlan/Sasha on this foreign planet. Perhaps this atmospheric light-show would somehow catalyze the revolutionary liberation in eternity for this horrified and enslaved species of sentient beings on Decameron...this was the ultimate wish and daydream of the Earth human survivor pair, Amlan and Sasha.

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