Defending Hippotigris by Smith T.L

Author:Smith, T.L.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Unknown
Published: 2013-12-29T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Lizzy stood in front of another wall, staring at a mural. I backed up, taking in more of the carvings. It took a second before I realized what mesmerized her.

I saw the mountain, the beautiful face so intricate in smaller detail, but it was only one of many carvings on the wall, interconnected drawings.

I followed Lizzy as she took a step deeper into the artwork. The next image was of the same mountain, but no city cut into its face.

Next came a city almost like our own, but it wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t artistic like the cliffs. It was broken, destroyed, and from it came a flood of creatures, led by what had to be the LR.

In three simple carvings, I’d learned these people came from a higher civilization, but I could see more carvings. I started back through history, standing before each panel to take it in, to understand what I saw and to record it in as much detail as I could.

Lizzy was at my side, staying close and quiet. Yinet also made no sounds, offering no explanation. This wall needed no words. Art was our common language.

By the time we reached the last of the carvings, I needed air. I needed the light of a real sky. We made the terrace and sat down on the long benches. Yinet sat down across from me, staring at me. She was waiting.

“I don’t know what to say. Your people have been through so much, and survived. Now we’re here to upset everything.”

Lizzy leaned on my shoulder. “I don’t think she wants us to be sad. I think she put your drawings in there for a reason. Did you notice how the ones of how we got here follow their lives? The others were placed above or below those, while our travel was in direct line. We’re part of their history now. They see us in themselves, at least I did.”

So did I. At one point in the drawings, ships lifted off their world, up beyond their atmosphere. “Is that why you were curious about us? Because your people once went out there?”

She scowled at my hand signals, so I repeated myself, slower. She gestured going out, but waved off coming back, pointing to us instead. She made several more gestures, playing with words. “Ara tee LR?” She turned her eyes outward.

“Did I ‘see’ LR out there?” I repeated the question and she nodded. All I could do was shake my head. “No, but out there is so big, so far, and we are so small.” I did my best to translate the thoughts, but only got a frown from Yinet.

Lizzy did better than I did, but she was accustomed to communicating larger ideas down to the simplest explanations.

I sat back as Lizzy cleared a space on the terrace, then from a nearby bush she plucked a hand full of leaves and a couple small twigs. She pulled one large leaf from her pile and put it on the ground between us.

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