Excerpt  from "A history of the Miodran on Earth"

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The few early humans that managed to pluck up enough courage to spy on the Sky-Beings and their business discovered that they would emerge from the objects that took them down from the heavens only to collect articles of terrestrial life, which they’d take back to the skies from whence they came.  Only two cases of human beings plucked from the earth were in circulation around this archaic time (c. 180,000 BC).  A man was taken in his sleep from an ancient westerly Saharan tribe, but was returned unharmed after a week of being missing.  Amusingly he could not scratch together any recollection of what he had undergone in his absence, despite the undoubted fantastic nature of his ordeal.  

The aforementioned kidnap happened during the instance of the first actual abduction.  The primogen of the abductees was in fact a human female.  Her hierarchal status in the tribe was not particularly one to boast about but after her encounter with the Sky-Beings her life took a remarkable change.  She would have no inkling as to what her curiosity would leave in her bloodline for countless and infinite future generations.  And was best she did not know, as many supernatural events would unfurl from this encounter that no person wishes to be associated.

It all began when she was out on her way for a drink of water from the local river; the primitive African sun had parched her more primitive throat and was in the irritating scratch of dehydration.  It was on her way to this river that she came upon it.  The great black disk of the Sky-beings was ominously lingering in the distance.  She stood and marvelled for a moment, but her curiosity had become dangerously blunt; she dared venture right up to the colossal hovering obstruction in the ancient African plain.  It hung just a metre above the ground and was easily sixty metres in diameter.  At first she was full of questions and what logical thought her primitive mind could arrange for her disposal.  Although as she drew closer to the hellishly floating object, its smooth surface (which was devoid completely of imperfection) had an almost hypnotic hold on her and she developed an intense fascination with the enormous disk.  

Her cautious advance had turned into a dazed walk, her eyes bulging with wonder and fear as she came within throwing distance of this devil to sanity.  Its black smooth surface seemed to reflect no light whatsoever, not a single spectrum glinted off of its soft body, nor did it reflect the ground it so unhealthily did not touch.  Its physical presence was undoubted however.  A truly distasteful pungency swelled inside her from the way that the construct spectrally hovered in an exact serenity and motionless one would retain from a still life painting today.  Nevertheless, her diverse moods were swept up by the more powerful wonder and awe she was feeling, erasing the more distasteful reactions and instinct she harboured for such unfamiliar things.  

She came under the shadow that this invading presence unquestionably cast on the neolithic soil and grew faintly aware of a droning sound emanating from the bulk of the construct.  She stopped and focused on this soft noise.  Listening closely, it became clear it had a pulsating nature. ‘bwvoooom… bwvoooom…bwvoooom…’  She was quickly hypnotised, obsessed with the humming from this magnificent monolith that not even her wildest imagination would ever have conjured.  For a second her thoughts lingered on the frightful reality of the situation.  This consideration was short lived however; as her attention was soon again stolen by this alien nuisance to the sane reality she knew so well.  Captivated and lost to this unfamiliar rhythm and its melancholic musical temperament, she lost all awareness of her locality and did not foresee what was to happen.

It was then she felt something behind her.  Not a physical anomaly that brushed her, but a feeling gripping her mind.  She had an alarmingly morbid sensation that there was another enquiring presence just behind her.  No words of a phonic nature could be heard; she could barely scrape speech together herself (ancient man from this time was sincerely not the polyglot it is today), but she knew something was chillingly inviting her attention backwards.  She slowly turned over her left shoulder.  When she saw that looming sentinel planted before her she let out a gasp just under her breath, but enough to be heard.  The imposing proximity of the creature petrified her into paralysis down to the very marrow in her bones.  

At least four metres away, standing tall and just inside the cast shadow of the disk, there was one of the Sky-Beings.  Its risen posture was over three times the height of hers at roughly two and a half metres.  It had no eyes or mouth, nose, ears or any face of any determinable nature but its head appeared long and slender.  The being did not stir much, save a few subtle movements of its limbs and head that any living creature exudes.  If she were of a more favourable condition she may also have noticed a rather long tail trailing on the grass behind the being.  Its elongated arms were in morbid harmony with the rest of the skinny figure and ended in a hand with six digits.  Close analysis would lead the suggestion of two thumbs on either side of the palm.  It stood on what seemed to be the knuckles of its two feet, in a similar - but all to alien - fashion that gorillas use there forelimbs for support.  She could not hear any sound emitting from it but what she felt in herself was entirely bewildering and not the least bit comfortable.  She gazed at its chaotic black figure as she felt its mind inside hers.  It was prying into her thoughts and memories, collecting information, asking questions, testing mental stability and willpower.  At once she felt compelled to run but couldn’t.  Her body was in a state of paralysis and was taking extremely soft, shallow breaths as if ironically trying not to give away her position to the creature.  In a single moment all her fear and conscious desires subsided into blackness.  She dreamt of wonderful and terrifying things.

She woke later to find herself in the same grass plain.  The initial confusion was almost immediately destroyed by the memory of what she had witnessed and a great wave of nausea swept over her.  She almost relapsed into unconsciousness in that moment but after collecting herself she started towards the settlement.  On her journey back, she happened to glance up at the sun, and realised its position told of an hour earlier in the day as she had remembered it being.  She must have been unconscious until at least the next day.  

When she arrived at the settlement the bewildered and amased faces of the rest of the tribe conveyed a feeling of confusion in her.  Apparently she had been missing for five months.  This was confirmed by the seasonal birds seen in the trees which were migrating south from up north this time of year.  Any memory of those five months was utterly absent save the encounter before hand with the Sky-Being.  The rest of the tribe were inspired by her dreadfully close encounter with what they now considered to be gods.  In the following weeks it became obvious that she was pregnant.  Although, observably, she had not had the chance to mate with a man of the tribe while she was missing, leading to a cryptic assumption of her from the tribe people.  The Sky-Beings, believed to be gods, were held responsible for her conception and as such she was said to carry a child which would be born half-god.  The day of the birth came and the child was born to be a girl.  There was nothing unusual about the girl whatsoever, it was a healthy human baby, but was worshiped as a demi-god nevertheless.  Even later in life, the girl would show no abnormal or ‘godlike’ qualities.  Nonetheless, this is in fact the beginning of the start of a complex, destructive and supernatural chain of events aforementioned.  Perhaps if one were observant enough then the fact could be noted that the child never once became sickly in its entire life and died of a ripe old age after mothering its own children.  This was indeed the Mother of Unearthly Entropy.