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?This breed of animal I had never seen, not
even on the animalistic humanlike forms on planet SSARG; or for that matter
on Toso, or Moiromma, and surely not earth. They had lion like claws, and
they moved quickly, like leopards, or cats, eyes penetrating. There must had
been two for every man, woman and child in the camp area, I sensed they were
guarding them, especially the children; when not doing that, I noticed they
dragged a few dead bodies out to the dump area outside the camp, they ate
them and what they didn?t eat, they burned, or buried. I assumed they were
dead from previous battles?the enemy that is; I didn?t pay all that much
attention to it: I did noticed though they were bruised bodies. As they [they
being: the Saneyhs] walked by me they hissed at me: looking, always looking,
I also sensed they may have felt I was there to replace them, for it seemed,
they made a desperate scramble to their masters when they first saw me,
unless that is how they were naturally, and time would tell me it was not so,
that it was me indeed.
The king laid his glaring eyes on his two
pet dogs, or Saneyhs, and they seemed to understand I was not a threat?not
yet! They acted like lost souls, not as bold as I had first imagined them.
They made no effort to harm me, and remained at their posts and were very
dutiful.
As night sunk in more, the pale sky turned
the evening into a velvet type twilight as I sat by the fireplace.?
Velvet Twilight [Over Planet Cirumia in the
Black Galaxy]
Velvet twilight fell over the planet
Franticly defusing the pale slopes:
With yellowish-brown, purples hues
Shirking the colorless down?nearby.
Strange constellations rose ablaze:
Stars veiled over the far-off moon,
As it rose over the consecrated valley
And its brooding monochrome mounds?
The icy air: produced a velvet sky:
Stiff, extensive: with gritted eyes.
Its dark broad, natural, evening lights
Flooded the hills with surreal sights.
The mad planet, now painfully calm
Endured twilight, as it came in spasms?;
Then Climbing above, Cirumia?s belly:
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