Original X-roads-2003

    We arrived at the village, I was amazed at what I saw there. My heart leapt at the architecture that was built in sync with the nature that surrounded it. These people had truly learned how to live within nature and nurture it with their own lives.
    Shacks built next to one another had fruit bearing vines growing on the outside. Trees shaded the entire place. Some were so large that people had built sleeping quarters inside parts of them. The entire place seemed to be powered with some sort of steam system and hydropower.
    “This place is amazing.” I commented to Zahran, “The whole world should look like this.”
    “You have to get people to give up their selfishness to achieve lofty goals as these. People have to give of themselves, and let go of comforts they have grown too used to.” Zahran led the animals to a stable. “There are no electronics here like on the main lands. You will find no way to talk to anyone other than face to face communication the way God intended. Here human interaction is prided on.” He motioned to a family in the distance.
    A father was hugging his child close, while the other children played nearby.
    “The problems of the main lands don’t reach this soil because we don’t participate in their world. This is not how Mark Chasarue intends for it to stay.” Zahran sat down on a stool and looked out at the community he had spent a lifetime teaching, loving, and growing with. “For years we tried to fight him, tried to fight the DawnCo Corporation thugs. If they could have listened there would be world enough for us all. They live with their corruption for whatever reason. Whatever reason he wants to control the entire world. We could have stayed here peacefully if he had not destroyed all of the rest of the planet. Now it is too late.”
    He stood and shook his fist. “Now it the time to stand and fight against him. Break apart the domes and restore the planet back to it’s original state. It can be done, it’s not too late. But if we loose this contentent, all is lost forever.” He looked in the direction we had come from. “They will suffer, they will all have to suffer at first. It will be hard, some may not even survive. But it is for the best in the long run. It is in the best interest of the planet.”
 
    I climbed up a rope ladder to sleep in one of the tree sleeping quarters. I slept up high enough I could walk out on a branch as wide as a two way street. I walked down to the blue bushy leaves and looked out at the night sky. There was no moon in it, or stars to shine back but I felt comforted just knowing it was there. After all the time I had spent under an illuminated dome, it felt so good to feel normal again.
    I slept so deeply, the warning sirens didn’t wake me. By the time Meeset had arrived and woken me it was time to flee the village.
    Mark had found paradise, and invaded it.