Gaia's Story

Suddenly Gaia stands as the sphere center of the star. Bars surround her and she is imprisoned in a cage. She knows not by whom or where, realizing only that she was knocked unconscious shortly after her visit from Iboga. There are others around her. She is in a cave, lifeless and dark. She calls on plants to aid her and yet still she sits caged. Shaking and trembling with fear and doubt Gaia knows only her prison. Days go by. Weeks go by. Months go by seemingly in seconds. Finally she sees a small cave-biter upon the ground. A small furry animal with six rows of small diamond-hard teeth.

"I called to the creature. I called to it desperately," spoke Gaia for the first time. "It could not hear me or refused to. I never felt more...detached from the earth spirits then I was during those months. I...I remember crying myself to sleep in that cage and feeling sorry for myself. Until finally a bat fell into the cave."

As if queued by her thought a bat flies into the cave where she is caged. It is obviously wounded and limps across the floor of the cave squealing in pain. Gaia picks up the bat much to it's dismay and recognizing what's wrong she places some of the algae growing on the caveside upon the bats wing before tearing her shirt to hold the wing in place while it healed.

"For a month I nursed that bat to health. It was as much for my sanity as it was for the health of the bat. It was only then the cavebiter took interest in my presence."

Finally the cave biter began to scrutinize the cage. It would come and nibble the bars a bit ...randomly at first, as if to test my resolve. The bat kept me company for a long while, but finally when it could fly away I could stand the cage no longer.

"I ask one last time fellow cave dweller. I promise to devote every following moment to the pursuit and protection of life itself. I will forever be it's servant. Just please get me out of this cage I beg thee."

"The biter looked at me one last time before trapsing over to the cage and grinding the bar down to nil. It consumed the next bar the following day and I was released. I have never forgotten my oath since, and I am reminded of it now...thank...thank you for bringing me here."

With that the creature began to glow luminescent with light blue and as in on queue Gaia picks up the creature. She is no longer the sphere. It is now centered upon Adahn.