The New Age. Somnium K'Hara

[HuggieSunrise]

Thomas had felt the feeling of light on his face. The only reality where it moved and touched your skin like this was within the dream.

The dream itself was a grand multidimensional reality that was held by all the casts of the peaceful beloved... aka Solomon Khara.

Appearing around him.. it was apparent. He was not in control here he was either within an enclave or some inner territory of the hive where a caste had more control than others.

Figures appeared under each archway..

Dreamers.. the Antediluvians of the hive.. its forebearers and builders.. the assimilators of ideas and inventors of dreams.

They all looked at Thomas as he rose and several images came from behind him.. They must have been scanning him.. he didn't resist. it was unwise to resist here of all places.

I pair of hybrid weapons appeared.. a representation of the proteus tome.. and a sigil of some familiarity.. the triangle with three circles.

"Teacher of men... The winds flow thrice. Thom-mas... you are named before us. We have you now.. many questions we have for you.. we will know the light."

They wanted answers for what they found in him.. oddly enough he only has answers for two of the images..

"Yes. I am open to you."

Gifts given are for no other, gifts given are light, are trust, and you gave it away to mere Darkling's (is spit the word like a slap in his face). -Explain.-

"I did it out of love for life. It was a deal made with shadows yes, but what I gave them was no mere weapon. I gave them the clues I know. The knowledge I know. Because you.. ... you cannot see what ive seen."

"INSOLENCE -We- see ALL within you!"

it was a powerful statement it was meant to squash him.. feeling anger and betrayl in the form of a psychical force was something... unique to the Dream.. everything had weight.. every emotion, thought. even ideas where weapons here.

"You see all but you do not comprehend."

"Lies" another voice said. base and powerful.. all knew the guardian. all knew who the harbinger is.

"You and that mongrel may have stopped us but this was your downfall. You horde like the darklings, you keep secrets, secrets within the dream kill..."

"The truth is often small and silent. Self evidence is as silent as the void. you have to listen, you must not give into harshness for the truth."

"Weve heard enough the Hive has new songs to sing and the exquisite audience for our cathedral of songs will alite with the screams of billions of flicker lives.... we will silence suns.. we will cleanse the void of their stink... because you... you were the last test "teacher" we learned no matter how advanced you are... you still "stink" of them.

Thomas was seeing the other dreams tainted in red.. this was what he was doing this whole time.. we had bansihed him into the star crusher... but he..twisted it.. learned its secrets.. and now the dreamers follow him because he has the information they needed..

It was all falling apart so quickly.. it couldent all happen cause of two guns.. no.. hes doing this cause..

"Am I such a threat to you? .. you are not ready.."

The great burning eyes of harbinger came close to thomas.. burning.. hatred oozing from its visage..



"Pathetic worms of meat and bone... panting and sweating within entombed walls... you seek annihilation by taunting us?"

"You... aren't... Ready.. and I will save you all."

The growl became a moan the moan became a scream.. he didn't have complete control within the dreamers after all as all he could do was go.. His "say" or Turn was done when Thomas had the last word of truth. Harbinger was not ready but he was close.. he was close enough to see his intended target was new york.. It didn't matter how many died to him.. he wanted that system destroyed so he could pick over the pieces. and find out why his makers cursed him with this existence.

It was eye opening.. Harbinger felt "cursed" to live.. ... something he had never felt in a nomad.

"Thom-mas why save us? What threat is there?"

it was time to let the cat out of the bag.

"You are the most enlightened of your race.. but even then Nysk the first high mother knew a seed of darkness existed within the hive.. Nysk was a mother.. a caregiver and knew that provoked any being could be brought to kill. But also knew that the light was all knowing because its dreams subvert all life that it touches."

"Mastery of life. We are the masters of life." They.. -explain- it this way often.

"You can remake many things assimilate novel forms of living beings for your own expansion and have.. as well as have the wisdom to preserve these forms .. As masters however.. humans are also masters of their environment.. you see it as corruption.. but man.. cannot corrupt everything if they are taught responsibility."

"The dark minds their fruits are without respect."

"Its a paradigm... the individual being you corrupt makes you monsters to them.. the lands and planets they inhabit.. instead of one world they seed many worlds.. and you see that as... well.. "

"It is grotesque, they spread and corrupt."

"Humans must survive... but they need many things to do that... they must adapt many places because they are weaker.. more blind.. their history is a litany of pain, and if they forget their pain.. they repeat it. Thusly everything they do they do for survival. and it can become a spell. an illusion of survival.. it is their dream. Their nightmare."

"We could feel pity, we cannot forgive them."

thomas finally had them listening..

"Dreamers... We must awaken."

the thought form of that sentiment.. hushed a million minds.. almost the first time ever the idea of "waking up" made sense to them.. it didn't mean discarding the dream it meant focusing on the material reality around them like the humans had. to see it from their eyes.. without smothering the vision within the dream.

"For generations exarchs have died and succeeded in returning to the dream to give this universe the truth about morality..and humanism and for the first time.. ever I had a glimpse into your soul.. I saw that as humans suffer.. in their world you have suffered here.. in this unchanging place. You all saw the novelty of young eyes witnessing these ancient halls for the first time.. human hybrid eyes distracting you from the reality of this ancient prison.. this nightmare.."

"New feelings, new songs, Your gift... it is why we had questions.. why we did not "cleanse" you."

"You subverted their bodies for novelty the infected spread because you are masters of life... but human nature is to not be alone.. they spread because you both feel this pain.. the cycle persists because of a nightmare. An illusion.. The Key resides within the spine of the Litany of old songs. Not its pages.. but its core, its spine, it has the cypher for infinite knowledge and its what you must adapt in order to break from this dead end."

It got quiet... the minds were searching through it.. yes.. all the knowledge they could save was there but it was apparent even the khara was missing pages of the proteus tome essentially the prime artifact itself had the root he spoke of.. yes.. it was three parts.. the book of the future and of the past Science and history but the third part wasn't really a philosophy as it was ..what was believed to be the source of all things.

"I have crossed over and finished the path of life. It is part of the spine... it resides within me ... without it.. I would still be a revenant.. a shadow here.. I will freely give it to see you go beyond hatred..to go beyond the dark paths the old guardians offer.. I only humble ask if you can return it.. when the key is found.. I have learned to love life... and now you will too."

No words were spoken what was given freely.. changed everything . Khara died... and a new identity was gestating..

A new Breed was born..

[HuggieSunrise]

"Babies must sleep. Babies must rest. Wise is the one who does not waken them." - The Many

Saturnia blazed a path through the floating "islands" within the Dream. Things were changing.. becoming more vivid.. Buildings, structures, and even ruins where dotting the landscape of a.. what seemed to be a taurus.. constantly rotating towards the light where she emerged.

Saturnia was.. not a stranger to the many caste forms within the hive.. she had her own version of each.. her wanderer form was the fastest within the dream but it had a.. particular appearance. resembling a harpy or some such from human fantasy.

She realised it was hard for her to blink or bi locate here.. What.. the..HELL happened to Thomas? and What the HEll is going on with her.. her home?

Animals, birds, and other creatures where appearing.. some resembled things she had seen before others not even close.

it was almost an hour before another caste appeared.. or rather was spotted at the mouth of a large cave.. it felt cold and dark.. obviously the other wanderers were there.

She decided to land to speak to it.. but is skittered inside so quickly.. she couldent get its attention before realising.. there are.. all manners of bizarre life appearing.

She decided to continue where she... thought the Dreamer Citadel would be.

The dream was growing.. or rather its ..features or.. memories were growing into fullness.. and the citadel was in ruins.

But it seemed that they were all there creating a city of some type. The dreamers all working in concert erecting spires and towers from their memories.. ... actually enjoying it.

"This city is.. being built.. for someone..."

Her continued exploration, her instincts led her inside one of the completed buildings... the interiors where vary spartan but there was one that was surprisingly human.

There were voices...

A familiar one as she rounded to a room at the end of this complexes hallway literally stood three winds speaking to ... two blue humanoids. They looked adolescent young.

"Love is a fleeting thing for beings such as you... you will leave the dream and see the other world as a playground of unimaginable beauty.. creation is your first love.. for everything within it is you."

Saturnia snuck closer.. she hadent intended to stalk the halls invisible but.. she saw the distraught look on both of them.. somewhat androgynous but one was clearly more masculine.. they were holding hands.

"Then again there's nothing wrong with friends... Love is not special.. love propagates it grows.. it cannot be selfish but our minds can make it selfish.. and singular.. but this would make love seperate you from the rest of whats created for you.. so... go forward with open hearts... do not doubt."

They both seemed to like that idea and shook their heads yes shooting out the door.. past Saturnia and probably outside.

She saw the look on his face.. returning to his stoic i'm lonely face again. Thomas turned and looked out the windows of what seemed to be not really an office or classroom. but a place where.. many people? came.

Saturnia Shifted to Satrina.. her humanoid host.. here her skin was not pale or the wrong color.. in fact it was quite tan like her father's.. and other changes.. they were accelerating near Thomas.

"What the... heck." she spouted.

Thomas didnt turn around but spoke.

"The dreamers are doing a superb job. This will be an excellent creche for the children of tomorrow."

A tear was welling up in her face.. what the hell's going on? She suppressed the feeling. but couldent.

"Tom. what did you do."

"I gave them what they needed. I gave them the chance they never really had before. Look around you.. They were ecstatic to build this for the children. and their growing quickly.. almost won't be complete until the next generation." thomas turned. Satrina was completely different.. it did set him back..

"I didn't think it would affect you... your human here."

"Everything is changing.. but its something about you.. Im feeling... more awake here then.. outside the dream how is that?"

"The human ability to be awake while asleep... To engage in trance is something Hybrids lacked because their trance was always the mindshare. Now.. your more in control because the consciousness or the frequency of the dream is rising up. higher..and high thanks to my crossing over from cardamine to hybrid to completing the mutation back to ascendant. They needed ascendant dna to be free. So I gave them mine. And so I stand here.. In a timeless wonderland .. not to concerned as to when they will find the Tome.. for it has the rest of the secrets."

She was.. conflicted but decided to side with the oracles... they were her first family.

"What about US tom. What about the maltese and the rest of our family.. their lost and I dont think Hoag is smart enough to-"

Thomas just made a shhhhhhh noise.

"They will find the secrets of the old ones... and if their knowledge was incomplete we can solve it here. There is no time here EL.. the children are maturing and growing lifelong experience... with true rules.. For it is only here they can die. they learn mortality here.. value it. when they're ready they ascend into the real world as immortals. but because i gave up so much to make this world.. this new age.. I cannot leave. "

Satrina had not been called El since she was a kid. ... it wasent fair him acting like a father figure now.

"You cannot leave the same way you returned.. in fact none of the hybrids can anymore.. their code is incomplete and you must succeed the trials and win your immortality to go.. after that it will be as simple as falling asleep. If you die in the dream you'll awaken if you die int he world you will dream. that is the way of it."

"I can't stay and screw around with this tom we have real dilemmas out in the real world. " she retorted

Thomas came closer. wiped the tear from her face. "Then find him. and finish your destiny."

[HuggieSunrise]

"The skies are filled with the dead."- unknown

It had already felt like months, Satrina, El that girl who had been the only one who survived the process that so many others had no chance... Memories streamed through as her path led to what seemed to be a small shrine at the edge of... well everything.

Although she knew she was mortal here ... there was nothing.. else to do but solve this puzzle...

The archway looked freestanding but the air from it was cold.. damp.

She walked through.. only to plummet forward through clouds..

There was a vast body of water underneath.. but she was plummeting into a hole in this ocean..

Wind/water resistance increased.

The harrowing leap of faith had stopped somewhere.. in the pale dark.. A cave with many crysal chambers.. beings were inside these crystal pods.

There was a presence here..

Out of the myst it was, anger, but subdued this being spoke to her.

"You've come to finish what you started."

Dubious , she couldent but help noticing the huge blade.. Though she herself relied on her other forms for defence she had nothing... like that.

"Hiding this far cooled my intentions. What do you think of this new world. ?"

The red one turned its back on her and...sat.. regarding the suspended.

"Colors and forms are different.. the essence is the same."

"Guardian you've been here longer then I. Tell me what I should do with you."

"Kill me. I embrace oblivion.. Were already here."

This made her frown.. anger not at him but the circumstance.

"Who will guard them then? You are doing what you've always done.. "

"Things are more cordial in this new dream.. It seems even assassins empathise with their prey." The guardian said.

"I hear we all created this world... It would be foul to cry being a victim of it."

"We were gods, now we play monsters to this mongrel race.. these .. in suspension are all those waiting to be reborn.. many I put here. Many will never awaken.. " He touched one of the crystals.

"So you're the jailer.. you're going to keep them locked in there forever?"

it turned pointing the blade squarely at her "The new age you've duped the elders into constructing will be a disaster! I am going to ride this out... and pick up the pieces as I did before As I always will. Human concepts like mortality and merit are pollutants in the already perfect light."

She smacked the blade away from her face. With hidden claws.

"I came here to kill you because of that nonsense you believe, it's done nothing but cause genocide. Mortality, merit, empathy are no "human" they are universal, you will either evolve or die. ....Yes.. thats the answer.. you cant hide here forever... you will have to accomplish the same As I have.."

he stuck his blade into the ground and made a open armed gesture.

"Then let them come and make me! It will break up the monotony. "

She retracted her weapons..

"You've been a villain for my entire life. Something to defeat something to get rid of for the safety of my family... but you are pathetic. you dont deserve a warrior's death.. you need to cease your illusions of being special... you're not a martyr either you're just being selfish."

"MAYBE it's my choice to be MAYHAP little queen you walk that path better than I ever did."

"Maybe I did. but maybe I'm just..stronger than you.. " Letting out a mid range wave of force twards him it blew the guardian off his feet.

"I am done with the vengeance.. if you're to be my brother then so be it.. We Will see you in the other world. But should you languish here... you will die.."

Energy was suddenly whirling around her it sort of..got in the way of her last words.. what was a whirlwind became a column and before the force became so strong it pulled her up and as quickly as the phenomena happened she was gone.

Harbinger rose sitting up. It too a master of many strong and monstrous forms... had inklings to accept her challenge.. but this world.. it had some interesting elements to it. perhaps he would test this mongrel race, if they indeed were deserved of all this grandeur..

maybe the test wasn't just to survive.. The Khara has done this had gone on and survived.. maybe the point now was to improve itself. ... It did not know exactly how to start.. but it would begin soon.

[HuggieSunrise]

Within Mayas city there gathered around Thomas a grouping of the new age.. The nymphs who had proven themselves time and time again as masters of their dream.. but lacking the last trial for their ascension process.

Usually it was much insight to ones self that cause the true path to be opened.. a fear being defeated or a habit or.. some un serving idea about themselves or other.

Thomas decided to lay off the internal worlds of the children and talk about what was outside.. in the other diemension.

" And so you hear my voice once again.. speaking to you.. though through habit and no fault of your own you've grown weary of guidance weary of all the thinking.." Some laughter from the group.

"Valuable are the teachings of words but.. it isnt until you experience a challenge does it truly teach you.. One of you will go tonight.. and this talk is specifically for them.. Though this knowledge will benefit you all."

He looked at each of them.. Humanoid bodies.. they had grown into because of him.. and EL who ascended before them.. she had been the first they had witnessed disappear into the column of light.. though it was mere days it might at well have been months within the dream.

"The predominant life form.. in the galaxy besides your family.. Is the genus Homo sapien sapien."

"Different.. isnt it? This is the only form.. like most lifeforms in the other world that the man will have. they start out with a common form of reproduction leading to cellular traits exchanging and multicellular clutches to engage and multiply.. This being is capable of beautiful dreams.. and terrifying nightmares."

There was an unspoken but there..

"All of his problems can be solved with compassion... what does he need in the universe in which he inhabits? compassion. You will begin to notice.. the apparent absence of it.. .. because until you ascend.. until you're there you won't see how black it is before you can see the white."

He stopped looked at their faces.. mostly curious.. he had learned to read their strange six eyed faces.. Each one vary different from one another.. Iliad and Toad in the back talking during lecture... was typical.. they could probably remember it fine regaurdless.. These werentlike the maltese children.

"Many of you here are ancient souls.. and your trying vary hard to not believe it. Humans almost all of them.. are in denial of their connection to creation.. to the universe.. We know the spark the spark of love the spark of compassion but humans labor under such ancient cycles old energy.. that their past is making their tomorrow. All they knew was after a time they would have a war.. and they would recover heal their wounds and their children would grow up and let their leaders.. bring them war.. another break..and then war.. There is ..

There is a soul crushing deception.. to expect nothing new. It is firmly emplaced to the point what's happened in the past would be the pattern of the future.. to the point.. they sacrificed their own mother.. their home..

They are orphans.. and since then.. they have be recreating a deception... when it is the era of a new age.. a pristine.. compassionate age that can exist now that never existed before.. for you are that... that which is new.. "

Mara, Ao.. Lumina were there..he had just noticed the elders.. peeking in on the lecture..

"The hive was also stuck in a cycle a deception.. assimilate upgrade, usurp and control. new species located? assimilate understand upgrade and control.. and ..sometimes.. with a huge hibernation break in between. You tried to control them.. the hive was successful we already understand the humans...

Biologically.. technologically.."

Thomas sat upon the alter..

"We've both had our deceptions.. one of the shared was ::You're not worthy.::... how could i explain this.. without insulting you.. How can I say that you're born dirty?... you're not worth anything.. because your function is one or two things the hive beckons you to do? I dont love you unless you do something good.

How childish is that?

You came in with a bias of unworthiness and everything here pointed to that and said yes that's right.. Humans are going to assume they and you are not worthy.. but as a child race they'll believe it..

But NOT and advanced race.. Not your who can breathe a deep breath and know you do so with the knowledge of the universe within you and say.. ....worthy? I am very worthy.. I know it..

When you're out there.. all that is broadcasting on the human signal is that.. it has not died.. it continues and drones..

But you know the almighty forces that created this place you and the universe within mediaries like older races or biological goo fermenting in a volcanic pool.. are equally children.. profoundly related by the same energies the brought the humans from sludge and you from the ideas of the enigmatic Old ones..

You have no concept... of how pure it is.. it's beyond reason its beyond anything you can fathom the mind of creation... the secret is love and compassion are the elements of creation and in that how is it you can then say " you know we fought wars because of our creators and they were not happy with us and sent us into eternal sleep because of this or that.. "

he coughed.. he gets fired up at this point.

"The universe isnt some scientist.. some child.. gods are not humans power... is a toy.. it can be used and misused. and a child's plans for you are not what make you worthy..

It was the breath of birth.. your free choice..

And you use it to see the beauty that is inside you..

you will see your worthiness.. A ..Man wouldn't do to you what a god has done to you..

use common sense.. who is creation? who is god?"

He smirked..

"Thou art god.. thou art worthy. and you will see it when a human decides to go dark all manner of people come with them and they try to control you and master you because THEY can get ahead... because... darkness has always been in control for them..


for money.. for "child" power and greed.. but you will defeat many violent humans.. you will outlive them you will outlive their darkness.. because darkness is no longer in control of THIS dream..


you will have tools.. you will have power.. but you will have eternity over them...


Be begin now.. smother them.. in what you as worthy successors.. as kings and princes and princesses of the universe should do to rule over their small seemingly insignificant dark urges..

Give them love where they will receive it.. turn the darkness away where you can...


There are other who will say.. THOMAS is just telling you to usurp them again! infect them! take control!

Dear ones.. leave them to their free will.. show them truth show them the common bond between you.. they will chose love if you've chosen it.

there will be so many used to the darkness not understand what's happening.. they will accuse you.. as unworthy.. and a tyrant .. a usurper..

but you will know the difference.. you must drop the bias of the old darkness.

This may take many lifetimes.. ... but you are the youth of this new age.. you will perceive the true power you wield..

Love.. and Compassion..."

A column of light enveloped one of the taller nymphs of the group.. his name was Uriel.

When he was gone there was some Ooohs and Ahhs.. many expected him to go.

Some cries and sobs.. like from his closest friends..

"Uriel will be the Ambassador to the Maltese A gift from me to them.. He accepted the task first but he will have free will failing that mission.. He too will have to choose between fear and love.... Hopefully you will be there with him soon.

Goodbye Brother Uri.."

The rest echoed his goodbye.. .. the group dispersed for the night.

On The other side of the veil a suit was being completed.. Uriel's awoken form was placed within it as he was told he would be. The suit would protect him from most harm any humans planned or could plan to do to him.

When he awaoke no one was there except for Nistae The Father Wanderer .. who has adopted a bit of a caretaker role for the waking nymphs and hybrids who had undergone the trials of the new dream.

"Yes little prince awaken.. the suit will form to you.. dont fight it.. " It clicked and clucked.

The eye apertures came alight and the form went from being lain out to up and erect..

The Ambassador was ready..

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