Halloween

 

xx

Billy Goat

Music=

1. Rhythm Of Love- Yes
2. Billie Bossa Nova- Billie Eilish

UFOtext= Mountain Outpost  🏕

“The Mule is a strong Medicine Man. His lyrics are peyote- they enflame all who listen.”

Pale Horse opened his arms wide as the sky.

Astira  frowned.

“I’ld rather be a Billy Goat than a Lemming.”

Chateau D'If

 

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Music=
1. Ecailles de lune- Alcest  Lyrics
2. Knock Knock Knock- Spoon

UFOtext=
“Astira- are you alright?”
Taryn reached across the deep void.
Astira huddled by the fire. Traces of the dream still bothered her. She felt tenuous connections*  reaching for her across a cosmic light cone. A face in the stars gradually faded. She held Taryn’s hand & felt a sigh of relief. 

* Jessica Gomes "Sports Illustrated"

Autumn Wind

 

Music=
1. Roundabout- Yes

UFOtext=
I. Mountain Outpost ⛩
Pale Horse pointed to the peak. The last golden rays sketched the mountain.

“Eagle Eye. The clouds run to safety, the mountain stands in honor. Against the autumn wind, eagle wings whisper this truth.”

In her mind the Dragonfly smiled. The golden rays gave way to a face of stars.

Later that night-
The dream vaporized. Astira looked up at the visible stars. The night wind rose slowly in delicate whispers across the mute forest. She put on her soft jacket & stirred the embers of the fire. Never had she felt so close to the Earth- if it ever existed….

Burning Hut

 

Music=
1. 1020 Am- Spoon
2. Mistero- Deep Forest & Gaudi
3. Should've Been Us- Tori Kelly

UFOtext=
I. Mountain Outpost  ⛩

The Dragonfly paused. Pale Horse stared deeply into her eyes. She felt him walk the winding trail of her life. He continued.

“You are the messenger spoken of by the wise men of generations past. They told us you would eventually arrive. The hiding moon is now silver. Now you arrive. Your Cheyenne name is Eagle Eye. You fly. You see far. The wise men told me this.”

Pale Horse beckoned to a brave.

“Show her the NeXT.”

Later that night.

The clown smiled, but it only saddened his beaked face, & when he spoke it was with the soft elaborate phrasing of the Central Sectors.

“If I were to use the wits the good spirits gave me,” he said “then I would say this lady cannot exist- for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather I would not be sane & lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.”*

Astira drowned in a chilled sea. She swam in her mind’s dream. Where did it come from- her, or from a face in the stars? She shuddered. She felt the floor of the mountain. The curtain of night lay open in the moon’s silver crescent. Deep red embers smoldered in Taryn’s fire….

*”Foundation & Empire” by Isaac Asimov.

A Face In The Stars

 

Music=

1. Coffee- Tori Kelly

2. A Face In The Crowd (Live)- Spoon

UFOtext=

I. Mountain Outpost  ⛩

Indian summer soothed the high mountains. Warm waves spread across a planet devoid of ocean. A golden arc- then the sun fell down.

“It’s like Gobi” thought Astira, “but only a hurricane of mountain & desert- ancient blue oceans vanished like a Shakespearean dream…”

“If the Mule vanished, what’s the point of being here?” asked Taryn.

“Good question.” answered Astira. 

The Mule controlled everything including the first foundation. The Mule invalidated the psychohistory of the second foundation.

And there was no help- the Dragon & Ozymandias remained on Gobi- now the Mule’s territory. 

“I think the quantum hard key has something to do with the mythical black diamond.”

Astira continued.

“The black diamond & the Crescent Lake has something to do with the Mule’s power- but I’m not sure what… so we can start with the quantum hard key.”

“No you can’t.” said Utkarsh. 

He sat coiled on a woven mat by the fire.

“The Mule took the key- that crypto-space is now off limits.”

“Nothing is off limits.” said Astira.

She frowned & thought to herself-

“Ozymandias spoke of a higher foundation- as if the second foundation couldn’t be trusted to secretly watch everything…”

 The face of the Dragonfly broke into everyone’s thoughts. Quiet as the night she had entered their camp.

“I just spoke with the Cheyenne.”

Prelude

Music=
1. Heat Waves- Glass Animals
2. Text Later- Spoon

UFOtext=

I. Mountain Outpost

The summer passed off grid. The Empire & Mule didn’t exist. There was no history- only the prehistoric forest below the tree line. Then, at night, the band of the Milky Way ran across the sky & dipped below the mountains. Every now & then Taryn hopped into the Trader Star & hovered into town to gather supplies. With this precaution he avoided interstellar space & detection by the forces of the Mule. Utkarsh showed Astira & the Dragonfly how to cook local food. High in the mountains the campers lived outdoors in days of moderate heat, & nights of relaxing cool. Only the sun, moon & stars marked time. A handful of freedom loving planets wandered in the alien sky.