A New Home
733 Words
Cocooned in this mother body Inke awakes. He can feels his feet and the air in his lungs as he slowly opens his eyes. His mother is breathing yet not awake.
In a panic he reaches down to his stomach in search of his brother. He pulls back the cloth from his face and stares down at his brother, eyes wide open, Inke smiles in relief that they have all escaped and are still alive.
"Why do you look so relieved my son" Sophia says as she slowly rises to her feet.
"You know we can not die, as we are contagiously reborn through the light?"
"I know mother, but I was worried that he might have been left behind or lost during the travel. Where are we?"
"We are on a planet not known to our kind. Come son let me show you."
Inke, holding his mother's hand, stands and looks out across the vast lands. They are standing on the top of a mountain that is surrounded by trees, water, and desert. As he closes his eyes he can feel the sun and wind on his face. He can here creatures he has never heard before. And he can smell the richness of the soil and the perfumes of the valley beneath him.
"Mother what is that?" pointing at a creature that emerges from the trees into the clearing below them.
"Well we will have to name all the creatures and things that we see, but that creature will be our salvation."
Perplexed at his Mothers answer Inke stares at the creature. The creature is tall and muscular. It has two arms and two legs and is of a light brown complexion. His hair is dark brown possibly black. And is wearing no clothes. Suddenly Inke sees more creatures like the first one, some slightly different in size and build. There are some that look similar to mother and even smaller ones that look similar to himself and his brother.
Inke's mother laughs as her son stares at these new creatures with wonder. "First things first, what should we call this planet?"
Inke is broken from this thoughts on the strange creatures and say, "Do I get to name this place?"
Inke's mother nods yes. Inke smiles with his eye wide open as he takes a look around the mountain top. He closes his eyes again and smells from the soil fill his senses. "That's it! We should call this place Earth."
Sophia looks around and then smiles down upon her very clever child. "That is the perfect name for this place."
The rest of the day Inke and Sophia sit and name all the objects, creatures, and things around them.
"Mother, what about the creatures we first saw today what will we name them?"
"Well my son we must first observe those creatures a little more before naming them."
"But why?" Inke asks more perplexed than ever.
"Well it seems that these creatures are the most intelligent creatures on this planet and we should honor that by giving them an appropriate name as a group of beings as well as names for each and every single one of them, like we do with our children."
As Inke's Mother statement sinks in he begins to wonder what his mother has planned for these creatures, but before he is able to ask his mother say "Okay my son it is time for us to get a shelter, the night is coming."
With that Sophia create a large circle of medium sized stones and stands in the middle. She raises her arms as light and vibrations pulse out from her core and fingure tips. The Earth rumbles only slightly as five huge slabes of stone move towards the outside of the circle and are set equal distance between them. With those stones in place smaller rocks and stones begin to fill in as walls between the slabes. And lastly, from a near by tree, his mother uses the limbs and branch that glide through the air and places them on top of the structure. With in minutes a full structure stand before Inke.
Sophia popping her head out of their new home, "well come on, we don't want to let the night creatures have an easy meal now do we?"
Inke takes one last look and the twilight sky and enters the shelter.
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