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An Essence Of Time.
Waves from the oceans front splashing up on the green grass of the land. The moon is still out from the night before. Two smaller planets either side of the fading crescent, that is high in the sky. The morning has begun, four Sea Dwellers heads emerge from the ocean's waves, they start moving closer towards land. Tall trees from a forest with bushes scattered in front of them, that is in the distance of the land of this earth. Droplets of salt water dripping off from their emerging heads. Two out of the four Sea Dwellers have a lifeless tuna fish in their mouths, some droplets of blood sliding down their once glistening white, bottom teeth. The Sea Dwellers bodies appearing more from the ocean as the water is getting shallower, now around their stumpy legs. Smaller fish are swimming in the water under the shadow cast by the Sea Dwellers. They walk onto the land, the heat from the sun begins to dry the oceans salt water off from their thick leathery skin, that is inbetween their scales.

Further in land on the edge of a forest, an entrance to a cave in the distance, rocks from the mountain, have fallen around the caves entrance. The wind starts to pick up, while a family of Sky Gliders are standing there, in front of the trees of the forest, in front of the creatures are some tree trunks that have been up rooted, they lay in a heap. A Sky Glider steps forward, his mouth opens, a spit fire cannons out, shooting towards the uprooted trunks. Fire is speeding up the roots engulfing more of the trunks in flames. There is some rustling in the trees behind the Sky Gliders. A whistle from four bone darts shoot through the air, two bone darts piercing through the back of the skull of one of the Sky Gliders, dropping the creature to the floor, the other two bone darts are sticking out of the mud. The other Sky Gliders turn around, confronted by a pack of Primates that were in the trees, the creatures are now mid-flight. One of the Primates land on the front of a Sky Glider below, the Primate starts to sink its teeth into the face of its enemy, blood splattering everywhere. While another Sky Glider moves out of the way, the Primate hits the floor, rolling across the ground. The Sky Glider sends a spit fire hurdling towards the Primate but it does not hit the creature, instead exploding behind the Primate that is still running towards the Sky Glider. Singeing the grass, as the Primate jumps in the air its teeth ready to bite chunks out of its enemy, but the Sky Gliders wing slices upwards through the Primate that was airborne, both halves of the Primate drops to the ground as blood is seeping through the grass into the mud.
Meanwhile the Sea Dwellers are still moving in land, spreading out in the process. Three Sky Gliders are flying past when they spot them, the three of them dart towards the Sea Dwellers, a spit fire is flying down towards the Sea Dweller, that stupidly moves into the path of the flaming object that explodes on top, pieces of burning crispy Sea Dweller fly. The Sky Gliders land on the ground, one of the Sky Gliders start running towards one of the Sea Dwellers. A projectile vomit of ice from the Sea Dweller, stops the Sky Glider from moving, the ice freezing the bottom of the Sky Glider also freezing some of the land around the legs of the Sky Glider. Another projectile vomit of ice hits the torso of the Sky Glider, the freezing ice is moving upwards. The tail of another Sea Dweller smashes into the frozen Sky Glider, pieces of ice with some frozen flesh of the Sky Glider spray through the air.

Inside the Sterling Settlement, Cambs is standing in front of a bonfire of tree logs, some wooden buildings are behind him, with two of the settlements people on the roof, their job for the day is to fix one of the warehouse roofs, where the rest of the settlement people get different fruit also vegetables from. Another man is on a wooden ladder that is leaning up against the side of the warehouse, he is helping the other men that are on the roof. George is working to the side of the bonfire on the blacksmith equipment, while on the other side of the bonfire, Gordon is cutting up raw pink also red meat on the counter of the wooden stall. There is some raw meat that have wooden skewers through them, they are leaning up against a wooden stand, beside the bonfire. Cambs takes one of the skewers, he puts the wooden skewer into the fire as the meat starts to cook, sizzling away.

Lon walks over to stand next to Cambs, one of his arms around the shoulders of Cambs.
Lon asks, "You all right Brother?"
Cambs hugs Lon as he responds asking "I am good bro, how are you doing?"
Lon responds saying "Yeah I am good, just the wife doing my head in, keeps telling me to clean up the house, while she does nothing apart from gossiping with her lady friends."
He responds saying "Have a word with her my brother, in quiet, not in front of other people."
Lon responds asking "Yes I will do, you have any plans today?"
Cambs pulls the skewer from the flickering flames, he places the skewer with the now cooked meat against another wooden stand, on the other side of the bonfire.
Cambs responds saying "I am going to go with the other settlement protectors, to go kill some of them creatures, so we can build this settlement more."
"Oh, that will be good brother, just be careful out there." Lon responds.
Cambs slides a piece of steaming cooked brown meat off the skewer, tearing the cooked meat into half, he passes half to Lon, while they both start to eat.

George walks over to Lon also Cambs, while Gordon is washing his hands in a wooden bucket of water. George is holding a sledge hammer, that is for Phil or Barry they are the men that are building the pathway to the new homes, also work stations which are in the latter stages of building, around the corner from Gordon's place of work. Gordon walks over drying his hands on his piece of cloth. Cambs hands them some chunks of the cooked meat.
George asks Cambs "Can you do me a favour, give this to Phil or Barry please?"
Cambs takes the sledge hammer while responding "Of course I can."
They are eating their breakfasts as more of the settlement protectors come over.
Cambs asks Lon "What you got planned today bro?"
Lon responds, "Not that much bro, speak to the wife then try help as much as I can out here."
"Why don't you come with us?" Cambs responds asking.
Lon is shaking hands with Manc as Cambs shakes Hester's hand, then Cambs shakes hands with Manc while Lon is shaking Hester's hand.
"I can't brother” Lon response to Cambs question.
Birms alongside Liver are walking over as Liver shouts asking, "What's going on lads!?" "What's fucking going on Brother?" Cambs responds asking while shaking his hand.
He continues to say, "I will be back soon lads, got to take this sledge hammer to Phil." Cambs walks towards Lee that is walking with his wife D, they both are walking the other way, they bump their forearm together, while passing each other. Cambs leans the sledge hammer against his shoulder, humming a song as he carries on walking towards where Phil is working.

The Sea Dwellers are still fighting with the Sky Gliders, more have emerged. Rain is pouring in the distances, moving closer to the small battle, that has erupted. While a Sky Glider is in the air, some raindrops sizzle as they fall on the creature’s head, the Sky Gliders wings are flapping as it sends a spit fire down towards the Sea Dweller but missing it. Instead it explodes around a Primate that was running towards, from behind the Sea Dweller, bits of flaming Primate flesh have sprayed everywhere. As another Sky Glider lands on the ground, in front of the Sea Dweller. More Primates start to come, one Primate jumps on the back of a Sky Glider, they are fighting in the distance. The other Sea Dweller sends a projectile vomits of ice towards a Sky Glider, but it manages to get both of its wings closed in time, the ice hits the front of one of the wings that absorbs it, the ice shoots back out of the other wing. Hitting the front of the Sea Dweller, freezing its face also half of its body. The Sky Glider starts walking towards the Sea Dweller with its wing up in the air, about to slice through his preys body.
A thorn branch arrow with a green tip penetrates through the back of the Sky Gliders head, dropping the air-borne creature to the floor. While another Sky Glider is running towards a Primate, another arrow swirls through the air, penetrating the Primate through the torso, at the same time a Sky Gliders razor sharp wings edge slices through the Primates throat, blood spurts out as the creatures head falls back to roll across the ground. Another Sky Glider takes flight, so a pack of Primates do not do it damage as the creature is sending down spit fires like bombs dropping, few are exploding on the Primates.
Manc with his sword drawn, a Sky Glider is running towards him as it tries to slice Manc in half with its wing. Manc dodges the swing after he retaliates with his sword ripping through the wing. Manc drops down low slicing through the front of the creatures’ legs, Manc stands up, stabbing it through the head. All of the settlement protectors Cambs, Hester, Birms, Liver, Lee, Leist, Ports, Archie also Ips are killing the creatures in the background, while Manc push kicks the Sky Gliders chest away. Manc looks around to see two Primates approaching from behind Hester while he is fighting a Sea Dweller. Manc runs over to stop the Primates from getting the jump on his brother. Cambs is running from the other side. They both decapitate the two Primates then help Hester with Killing a Sea Dweller.
As the small battle starts to end, Liver kills the last of the Sky Glider. It drops to the floor with a thud blood spillage, while Cambs stabs a Sea Dweller after dodging its viciousness swing from its tail, lights out for the creature. Bodies of the creatures are laying around over the once green grass.
Cambs says "Lets salvage what we can from these creatures’ brothers, so we can use them for building the settlement up."
While he is cutting the wing off a Sky Glider Ips responds saying, "Yeah, we will have to be quick, otherwise some more can come."
Manc responds saying "Not wrong there, bro all it takes is one Sky Glider to fly over then they will start to attack."
"Yeah or a pack of Primates, the little viscous bastards." Hester responds as he starts dragging a Sea Dweller by its tail.
Cambs picks up both singed tuna fishes, they both have teeth puncture marks on them with blood drops seeping from the puncture holes.
He holds them up while saying "I will give these to Gordon."
While Archie is pulling one of his arrows out of the head of a lifeless Sky Glider, beside a burning Primate, that is getting crispier as every second ticks past.

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