Where Is The Mule?

White Cliff Cottage

Music=
1. Crests Of Waves- Coldplay

"Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself."
- D H Lawrence


UFOtext=
I. The White Cliffs

Stars sparkled in the night sky.

"Where now is this Mule?" demanded Astira. She looked at Archimedes sitting with crossed legs on the backyard table.

"No one knows. The last known sighting is from a rebel pioneer who left the Second Foundation about 20 years ago. He contacted me from out of the blue 2 weeks ago. He said the Mule now holds the White Queen in his power. That makes sense, but I don't know if I can trust the word of this strange man."

"Who is strange man? How can he get so close to the Mule?" demanded Astira, her eyes filtering as though looking through a dark abyss.

"He changed his whole life- he is now known only as the Dragon Of the East."

The dark abyss cracked & exploded into a kaleidoscope. Astira looked at the Dragonfly & they burst into laughter.

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Morning Flower

Mystic Morning

Music=
1. Ground Zero- Night Flowers

"All people dream, but not equally."
- D H Lawrence

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I. The Deep Forest-

Awake! The Twinkling Star vanished like a moonlit dream. Princess Lei looked around, surrounded by the night of tall dark trees. Animals & birds moved around her, circling about in dull red embers of infrared heat sensed by her Yin diamond. She turned left. She intuitively sensed a strange presence watching her- just out of sight in the shadows. Her Yin could feel the invisible heat of the warm body, cloaked in the cool night shadow, perhaps watching her every move. Her eyes opened wide to the dark, and she stood alert & poised, as if she were a wild fox caught in the moonlight.
"My Lady! Dreams are but flowers in the night- but thine wild bloom dost wake this deep forest of sleeping hearts!" 
And a spindly creature of a man emerged from the shadows, & bowed precariously, waving his arms in a sweeping gesture.

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The Year Of The Mule

Night Dragonfly

Music=
1. Bound- Night Flowers

"Silence is a true friend who never betrays."
- Confucius

UFOtext=
I. The White Cottage
Change- birth, life then death. Astira frowned & looked at Archimedes perched in the dark. He turned away from the glowing mathematics & met her gaze.
"Something changed. There is birth & death- but there is no life. Everything the Mule touches becomes corrupt- a one way path to a meaningless existence. People become zombies, their lives a meaningless sport which never ends. There is no real life- only faith in a collective illusion. No one will break the chain, no one has the courage to see- there is not one God damn person who has the will to stop the insanity!"
Archimedes looked away in silence. He watched the sun set in the cottage window. Astira felt tears form in her eyes. Everything was wrong- everything was corrupt- the wrong side was winning. She despised that to the very core of her soul.
A lithe figure appeared. Through the window Astira saw the Dragonfly.


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The Night Before

Deep Forest

Music=
1. Sylvan Song- Heart
2. Bring It On- Seal

I. The Deep Forest

By nightfall Princess Lei reached the edge of the forest. Famished & without natural relief, she found a narrow path winding through the dark trees. Thin moonlight filtered down through the canopy of leaves, endowing the path with a soft luminescence. Determined, she followed the path. After one hour of hiking, she finally paused to rest. After a few minutes of rest & relief, she touched her Yin diamond. A velvet hologram instantly sprang to life, surrounding her in a soft cocoon of light. Enraptured, she could feel the rise & fall of the Twinkling Star- moored to the rock by the waters of the hidden cove. She looked around her nest, her moonlight body moving with a natural fluidity. Through the Yin diamond, her ghost lived & breathed on board the Twinkling Star.

II. The Caravan
The spindly figure moved quietly- a shadow in the night. Curious, he was drawn to the mysterious light. He paused and peered from behind a tree. His eyes & pupils opened wide. He couldn't believe his eyes. Before him sat a beautiful princess of the forest, surrounded by a magical light!

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Twinkling Star

Eclipse

Music=
1. Loneliest Star- Seal

UFOtext=
I. English Channel

The Count held the diamond to the light. Tiny flashes of lightning spread across the jewel, then fanned out in a moment's prismatic shower. One thousand tiny rainbows held the scope of a small tropical island in his palm. He carefully slipped the jewel into a soft pouch of black velvet, then drew tight the strings. A moonless eclipse thus closed round his island in the sea.

Satisfied, he covered his tracks & vacated the ruins. There was no time to spare. Determined, he mounted his steed & rode back into the ocean of dark blooms. By morning he knew he must reach the coast.

Princess Lei kissed the last mist of the morning. The low sun now hung tropical orange in the sky. The long high dangerous cliff snaked before her. Somewhere in a distant castle she knew the Mule would wake, & shake the sleep from his eyes- then somehow hide the stars of the galaxy in his pocket- & play with the orange sun.

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The Mountain Of Light

Koh-I-Noor

Music=
1. Loaded- Seal

UFOtext=
I. The Field Of Poppies
The Count knew irony- his best years stolen away, imprisoned in darkness but for light of the Abbe Faria. And that small miracle led to the Pearl Of Dreams. The Count recognized the stupendous improbability of his paradoxical fortune in life. And so in grateful wonder he rode on the crest of a cosmic wave, the stars in the galaxy all diamonds in the night.
He flipped on his i1. There, like a poppy sleeping in the night, the red image of Princess Lei glowed in his hand. He knew from M Valentine that she played a key role in galactic history, but to him she seemed but a woman child. He flipped off his i1 & gently stroked his horse, fidgeting from the flashes in the sky. He then spurred his mount forward, riding like the wind through the hidden trail snaking through the dark ocean of blooms.

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The Peaks Of History

The White Castle

Music=
1. Shades- Yellow Ostrich

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I. White Cliffs
She found the perfect hidden cove. Princess Lei opened the hatch & stepped out below the faint galaxy of stars. She inhaled the deep pungency of the sea, & she could hear the waves breaking in the shade of the fleeting night. She looked around. She could barely see the dark outlines of a few scattered boats- but she could follow the driftwood stairs leading up the side of the cliff. She closed the hatch & began her climb.
Minutes later she reached the edge of the cliff, warm with perspiration. There were no stars- only the orange glow of the sun breaking above the distant horizon of sea. Far below she could see the small shape of the Twinkling Star, hugging the side of the cliff. Nobody in the galaxy knew where she was right now- that was her advantage.

II. The White Castle
Magnifico twisted his narrow lips into a puppet smile.
"My fair Lady & Queen, you spin threads of gold from common straw. I am but a scarecrow at your service."
And like an ostrich, he dropped his angular body into a tilted droop. He then snapped back from his makeshift bow, & rested crazily on one leg. 


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