kuts – haatz – kohs  ak’ish – ıˇs – ıˇs

(The Dawn of Humanity)

By: Alan Arseneau

                Lynn opened her eyes, all around her the fragmented whispering tendrils of smoke floated lazily in the air and slowly dissipated, she had survived she thought to herself as she took stock of the surrounding landscape.  Everything looked so foreign to her compared to where she just came from.  Time has a funny effect on people, jet lag was a common effect felt by many people during the time before, imagine the jet lag one would get from leaping across eons in the momentary blink of the eye.  Lynn had to be stunned in those first few moments in that primitive world that she now called home.  How do you quantify such a bold twist of fate, finally two worlds would converge into one everlasting world.  The two halves became the whole.  The paradox had been broken, and humanity could now thrive under the careful guidance of the few who had made the leap over.  Before the weary time traveler was the ancient wilderness of the pacific northwest.  She turned about and looked for her companions.  One by one they appeared before her eyes like ghosts transitioning between the realm of the dead to the land of the living.  The way that they just materialized right out of thin air must have had a profound effect on the natives that were nearby fishing in the lake.  These primitive ancestors to the Clovis people dropped down in awe struck reverence for the strange foreigners that suddenly graced their presence, fearful that these may be angry gods come to punish them for some long forgotten misdeed they may have done.  Did they already know the greatness that would be achieved through the actions of the few?  Did they know that the scroll of ancient history was being written anew?  That history was not doomed to repeat itself like the prophets from the time before claimed.

            “Everybody okay?”  Lynn asked the group after they all finished materializing.

            “That certainly isn’t something that I would want to do every day,” Rena responded wearily.