Hmmm..

Mallory made a fairly good point in her comment on the last post. Why would Rhia jump so quickly to believing that Alan had betrayed her? Well, let's look at a few facts within the sample itself that hint at why she would think like that. First of all, as they were saying, Rhia was convinced she could not die. So, she went 'unconscious' in the middle of enemy territory during a battle. And woke up to find herself buried alive in a coffin. Immediately, her mind, like anyone elses' I would assume, went to trying to figure out how the hell she got in that position. The first thought is that the enemy has done this to try and get rid of her. Then she notices something on her neck she hadn't had there at the beginning of the battle. Looking at it, she finds the pendant she gave to Alan. Now, she's already thinking that the enemy has done this to her. To find something that only Alan had with her puts him logically with the enemy. Thus, she assumes he's betrayed her. Now, why would she so quickly want to get her revenge? It's time to go beyond the sample itself. Rhia's history - past, present, and future - is wrought with betrayal, misfortune, revenge, and just plain bad blood. Not only has she been betrayed, but she, as well, has done the betraying. To be in her situation, in a panic, and see something linking the closest person to her to the situation, it was fairly easy for her to think she'd once again been betrayed. There is a lot that's happened to these people before and after the sample I've given, and I'm still trying to sort that at all. You have to understand, for me, when I write these little samples, I don't have anything in mind for where they're coming from. I write the sample, and as I'm doing it, the story becomes clear, and it allows me to make another piece to put in the puzzle of Rhia's life that I'm creating, each annoying squiggle at a time. Now, there's one other thing that has come up that I've decided to add into the storyline. I'm supposed to be doing this historical account of the world and humans, etc, right? So, what the hell happened to all the elven cities after they left or were killed? It's something I've been struggling with. Civilization on Earth isn't supposed to have begun until only a little under ten thousand years ago, or something of that sort. And even then, it was mostly primitive. Cities were becoming organized, but they weren't at all advanced. So, if these civilizations belonged to humans, where were the grand elven cities that existed for centuries before them? Is there no record of them anywhere on earth? Well, yes, there is. At least, that is what I'm going to suggest here. Just last night, I watched a program on a city that went under water right around the end of the ice age, when great masses of land were submerged under a swelling sea. The city isn't alone. There are cities under water off the coast of India, among other places I've yet to research. These cities date back up to ten thousand years ago, and are much too advanced, far too organized and outstanding to be anything made by what was believed to be the skills of humans at the time. They're unexplainable. If you haven't gathered this already, I suggest that these are the lost cities of the elves, or of dwarves. The lost civilizations of the lost races. What if Atlantis, and the mysterious Stone Henge, these sunken cities...what if they were created by these lost races? They're unexplainable, precisely why I am going to use them for something I, too, cannot explain within the restrictions of earth's history. But look beyond that. What if the great wonders of mankind were not entirely man-made? The pyramids are a modern wonder, that some people even insist were designed by aliens. Well, why not elves instead of aliens? I've already begun to propose that Rhia had a lovely hand of hers in the designing and construction of the mythical Hanging Gardens of Babylon. The things that humans have some how been able to produce, at such large scales, seemingly without any leading-up to their creation in theories and failed attempts.. The mass mazes of boobytraps or revolving chambers or elevators found in the pyramids of Egypt, and simultaneously across the world in South America, don't seem bloody possible coming from humans of those days, and yet here they are. The vast knowledge of astronomy and mathematics these people seemed to have picked out of the air and put into use with a miniscule margin of error. It doesn't seem humanly possible. So I have decided to say that it isn't. Instead, it was taught to them. Or not done by them at all. To take the unexplainable and explain it with what in my little alternate Earth is unexplainable on its own. That is what I propose to do. Now just watch as I fumble it all up and fall on my nose.