Aynsefian

Entry #:69

Date:3041.87.7.14

Anathusa is right. I know she’s right. We must get a qualified and experienced human to deliver her baby. We’ve got to go to Inconflencia sooner rather than later. Just bloody risk it. Axin agrees. So it’ll happen. Nikse is not the least bit offended. She even admitted that baby deliveries were perhaps a bit risky with her equipment only. So, we go. When the time is right.

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Entry #:91

Date:3041.87.8.30

Only a few days to go! Then we leave. I’m as nervous as all get out. I’ve been calm since we got here more than six months ago. Now it all changes. I truly don’t want to leave. I fucking love this place. It’s so peaceful and quiet. I so enjoy not having to travel any more. To face danger and to be fake nasty to poor unfortunates entering Melcheisa. I love Axin. So much. For the first time in my life, I know what real peace is. But, we have to go. The honeymoon is over.

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Entry #:95

Date:3041.87.9.2

Today was supposed to be the day. The big day. I’m astonished at what just fucking happened. The sentinel went off and fired at something. Weirdly, they didn’t fly away and navigated around it. That’s when we knew: this was not the MGC. If they’d been fired at, they would have marked the planet as hostile and left. I absolutely KNOW this for sure.

These guys stayed. That’s when we knew. Axin was the first to say it. His yell of joy will stay with me forever. It was a couple of ships from Inconflencia. They had picked up the distress beacon initially sent out by the old Nikse. I can scarcely believe it. Now we can travel with them and the MGC won’t even know we’re on board. They told us that yes, the MGC are indeed at Barkentill. We would have been spotted and followed. It wouldn’t have been safe at all and the trip alone would have been disastrous.

Fate has saved us this time, rather than cursing us.

I met Axin’s people too. They are so nice. They brought everything with them to take care of us. It was sweet, but we have been managing beautifully. They were astonished that we’d found Aynsefian and were creating a new society. They will stay with us for a few days and explore with us and hear our stories. It’s too early to say, but they might be able to help us create Sensefian. That’s what we all want. All seven of us. Salvation and the droids too, probably. Nikse for sure. The Inconflencians can see real potential here, they said. It’s so exciting.

Entry #:96

Date:3041.87.9.2

We’ve shown the Inconflencians where Central is. They have some links back via relay between their craft inside the cave and the other craft outside the entrance, and then from there back to Inconflencia. There’s no other way to have comms from inside the cave. The Aynsefian rock really does block everything going in or out. I don’t freakin’ know how it does it. It amazes me. I’ve never heard of anything like it, in terms of natural materials.

Anyway, they’ve been liaising back and forth to Inconflencia. The government back there are keen to explore the potential of using Central as the place for a new society. This is really happening. Their plan is to have humans, Purlinians and Aroventians, just as in the old Aynsefian. Axin now knows that there are indeed Aroventians in Hynetherine. They just stay well hidden.

This is really fucking happening! I can’t wait! It could be at least a few more days until a decision is made. We can wait. Okay so I just wrote that I couldn’t wait. I’ve contradicted myself. Bloody log, got me again.

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Entry #:99

Date:3041.87.9.5

I’m still getting over all of this. I’ve never seen Axin so happy. I know he’s happy when he’s with me, but this is different. He feels a part of something great, something special. I’m going to let him write the next entry. He wants to. I will of course let him. I love you!!!

Entry #:100

Date:3041.87.9.5

This is Axin, writing in Zarasena’s log. This will be my only entry. I want to describe what happened to me today.

We are in Central now. My people are here too, the ones who responded to the distress beacon. There are dozens of them. They are in contact with my home planet. My government now wants our people to come here in their masses and transform this ancient place into a new society, a new world. I am humbled to be a part of it. Especially when I’m here, making a new life with the woman I love.

Zarasena and I moved our bedroom from the lake village two nights ago. Our new place is on the ground floor in Central, very close to the main gardens. Our new cabin is one that has been partially refurbished. My people have been putting in doors and windows on the ground. They had crystal with them when they came here, strangely enough, and enough androids to do the work.

Our new cabin is so peaceful. The river water flows past gently, creating a calming sound that we can always hear. Without any major refurbishment it’s already so beautiful, especially when we are totally safe now and the MGC threat is a thing of the past.

My people have been very active outside, walking around in the gardens and taking samples of plants, soil and water to return back to Inconflencia. They have also been surveying everything and taking inventory of the amount of apartments and the technology needed to transform this city and make it come alive.

I looked up at the mini sun this morning, after I woke up and went outside. I felt so happy and content. I saw some of our craft flaying around above and then it hit me, full force. This sight that I was looking at: it was almost the samesight that the Purlinians sent to me the very first time we came into contact with Aynsefian, when we first saw those symbols on the fissure inside the cave entrance. I had always assumed it was a vision of the past. It wasn’t entirely that. It was also partially a vision of the future.

I so wanted to experience that vision, but always assumed I would only see the remnants of it because I never suspected that it was anything but a past vision. Now I know that the wonderful feeling I got then is my new reality. I am so blessed. We are so blessed. Sensefian, our new society based on equality and peace, not division and fear, is taking shape before our eyes.

The very next step, once we get all of my people here, is to call the Aynsefians back to us. Then they will be as free as we are. It’s the only other thing I lack in my life, except perhaps maybe a child or two. Zarasena just punched me. That hurt more than I expected it would.

Anyway, the prospect of bringing Aynsefians to live with us and teach us, helping create our new Sensefian society, is so close to becoming a reality. We have everything we need: people, infrastructure, beauty, security and motivation to make it all happen. The day when we will achieve all of this is coming very soon.

I look forward to it with great joy.

THE END