Space Currents

I

Hoofs thudding through the cold and dark night were all that could be heard all over the town. The dark hood covered it’s gaunt black face, marked with white lines that gave it an air of angularity, as it ran swiftly through the fields. The pilos always believed that the Hoods would not survive in their environment because of the lack of sodium, and when it was first seen a great distance from the village, word of it’s appearance spread like a spider’s web in an unoccupied house.

The Hoods were great creatures with remarkable endurance against harsh environments.

The Hood was heading towards the core. If he could destroy it., then……Garuj shuddered thinking about what would happen. The pilos perceived an onslaught they would be helpless against.

"Where is he going my love?", Smethia asked.

"I don’t care", said Makhtre.

It was the very nature of the khes to not care about anything but their immediate mates. Pilos were creatures with three sexes, the phe, khe and mhe. While the phe and mhe formed a couple the khes were wanderers. They had life spans many barkrevs more that the phe/mhe.

Bark had a mean diameter of 100 billion miles, but this makes no sense since it is anything but circular. Bark has an irregular shape, with an even more irregular orbit. . During it’s formation, there had been enormous amount of disturbance, but somehow a large damping had occurred and it had formed completely anomalous. Bark’s atmospheres were sodium, nitrous and magnesium. The densities of all the parts being really close by coincidence, the planet’s environments stayed almost static. Somehow, life that could sustain in each of these environments had developed. However no intelligent life on the planet had been able to figure how or why the planet had three environments and stayed that way.

It was this wall, an invisible one that had kept the pilos from dominance by the Hoods. That was until now…………………..

Garuj nuzzled Smethia replying to pher question that was actually addressed to mhim," If I knew I think I would be a lot more scared Smethia".

Makhtre joined in like ceremony demanded khe to. This didn’t feel right anymore. It was clear to all that soon Makhtre would go in search of his next family.

Dominat lied on mher side. It was going to be hard for mher people and they would face the war that was coming with brave faces, and not a chance in hell of winning. It hurt mher that the world of Pilo could not join forces, could not face their trouble together. It had taken years to convince the other kingdoms of the arrival of this day. Now that it had finally appeared, they were going to be taken not wholly unaware, but taken nonetheless. Mhes weren’t very intuitive, but Dominat felt it in mher blood.

"Badama", she called out to her phe creator.

"Yes child."

"What would mhe creator have done in my place?"

"You will do fine my dear."

Dominat’s mhe creator had died a proud and royal death. He had died in a horrible accident and with his death, came Dominat’s development into an adult without a mhe creator. Tragedy however had the effect of strengthening her phe creator’s personality to a point where phe could offer more than the usually expected emotional support, much more. And the kingdom of Gitano had benefited greatly. This day would be faced with no shortfall in leadership. It would be faced bravely.