First Entrance Post: From the world of Thra...

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A small, gnarled being enters Milliways. She is short, squat and dressed in a stained, wine-colored tunic. Curved, ram-like horns sweep out from the tangled grey hair hanging lankly from her head. One eye darts here an there. The other is gone. Only a burned out socket on that side of her head. She stops, puzzled. This is not where she is supposed to be. She had been about to enter her ruined home to see what she could salvage.

"What is this?" she asks in a gravely voice. "Where is this? This is not my home! Where has Aughra gotten to?"

Strange beings are scattered through the giant room. Not Gelfling. Not Podling. Not even Ur-Skek. She scowls as her eye looks over everything and is about to go back through the Door when...

...she catches sight of the viewing window.

"Dark moon of Thra!" she breathes as she gazes on the dying universe, more brilliant than a thousand Great Conjunctions. Almost in a trance, she walks to the window.

"This is something worth seeing!" Aughra says. "The End! The End of All!"

She chuckles. "Or the Beginning."

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[stilljustandrew]

Yes.

*Andrew smiles.*

That was in the tale too, but ... you see, people come here from many different places, and from many different times. I wasn't sure that part of the tale had come to pass for you, yet.

*A pause, then, curiously:*

Do you know what became of the Gelflings after that? The stories never said.

[i-aughra.livejournal.com]

Aughra's one eye narrows in suspicion. "You hear that in a tale, too? How so? Jen healed Crystal just now. Well, days ago. How did tale reach you so soon?"

[stilljustandrew]

...I think my time must be later than yours. There are no humans in your time, you said? Nor tales of them?

[i-aughra.livejournal.com]

Her suspicions still are not quelled.

"No humans under the three suns, no," she says. Aughra sniffs the air around him, then pops out her eye for a closer look.

"Not of Thra!" she says emphaticly. "Don't care how old Thra gets. Will have same smell. Dust will have same look."

She pops her eye back in and glares at him. "You not want to tell Aughra truth, then just say so. Aughra has better things to listen to."

[stilljustandrew]

-- I didn't say it was the same world. Just that it was later.

And, no. Not of Thra. My world's called Earth. Um, we've only got the one sun.

[i-aughra.livejournal.com]

"Hmmmph!" Aughra grunts. "Suppose could be. If all Worlds end here and Aughra came before Thra's end. Though I never really expected to see Thra's end. Rocks and trees should call me back long before then..."

Her voice trails off a moment. Then she shrugs.

"Think it out later. Now, Aughra has End of the Universe to watch."

[stilljustandrew]

*Andrew follows her gaze to the observation window, and smiles.*

It's amazing, isn't it.