Canals of New Mars: Naga's Face by flavia49
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THANK YOU TO JEAN-LUC AJRARN FOR THE GIFT OF "NAGA HEADS". IT'S AWESOME!!!
"Sgt. Vasquez, everybody at the mess hall in 20 minutes. We must evacuate all the ranches within 24 hours. Dropships, Vanguards, and APCs ready within 60 minutes. The Skorpios, too. Form 6 squads. Eve, you must find me other 4 interpreters. Pvt. Brychek will accompany you to the Martian town. Warn them to prepare themselves to shelter the refugees. You've 1 hour".
Once alone in his office, JS prepared his report and sent it to GOD, who called back immediately.
"The President summoned me." She told him. "The Rogue ambassador demands our apologies for the attack of our fighters. I saw your report. Give me details". JS told her the facts. "I'll show the President the proofs of the Rogue trick, but remember that the hardest battles are fought here on the Earth". She warned. "In fact, ETHIC has just started a turf war, and the President has ordered the fleet NOT to intervene in any case. Our official policy is that the Earthener Alliance must NOT be involved".
JS ventured a request: "Ma'm, we need some eyes into the outer space. Can someone under cover be sent to the astrodocks to warn us of Rogue moves? The fleet won't be involved".
"Some suggestion?" GOD asked.
"Corporal Vlasav. He's Regiment".
"Granted", and GOD cut off.
Before going to the mess hall, JS dropped a message to a friend who worked at the Stellar Studies Center (SSC): "All you know on Alpha Crotalus ASAP".
The people at the mess hall were ready, even Eve and the interpreters. They all wanted to take revenge for their dead relatives, comrades and friends.
"Revenge is a cold plate." JS told them. "Our turn will come. But now we must evacuate all the ranches tomorrow, within 12.00h or before. The RATs will attack at noon. They believe that the midday sun makes one of the four souls to evaporate. The evil one. And it shows the souls' path to the Great Sun. That's why they generally attack at noon. We'll form 6 squads. We won't stop until we have everybody and all evacuated. Questions?"
Eve's family ranch was among the first to be evacuated. While an APC collected all the farmhands at their shelters, Eve's mother asked JS to come in.
"I want you to accept this gift from us all. For what you're doing for us," she said. And took a bundle from a big box and gave it to him.
JS unwrapped it, and was surprised to see a very, very old object.
The artefact was made of an unknown, strange alloy. It was a face haloed with ruby-eyed snakes.
"OMG, cried Eve. "It's Naga's Face, isn't it?"
"Yes," her mum confirmed. "Naga's Face comes from the Original World, and it's been handed down for some million years. She's The First Queen".
JS had the impression that the face stared at him, and for some instants the snakes looked as if dancing. "Unbelievable! These light tricks... almost hypnotic... for a moment I saw the serpents dancing!" JS smiled turning to the women.
Eve and her mum gazed at him dumbfounded.
"She's felt you," Eve whispered, "even if..."
"Naga's spoken!" murmured her mum.
"Ehi! Don't you want me to believe that they really moved, do you?" JS asked hesitatingly.
The two women nodded affirmatively.
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Comments (55)
moochagoo
Very interesting scene, excellent work.
lior
A so great story!
RodolfoCiminelli
Fantastica serie Flavia.....!!!
ShadowsNTime
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful! Simply an excellent story and a marvelous image!
timtripp
superb!
junge1
Excellent!
mapps
very cool :-) hugs
Amosicho
Great composition and excellent scene
doarte
Exciting work, love how you used Naga's Head! bravo
Jean-Luc_Ajrarn
I love it! :) Superb story and image! :D Thanks, Flavia! :D
OrphanedSoul
Such fun and a wonderful image!
artistheat
Great Image and Scene
myquad
Excellent, detailed scene and storyline!
jocko500
very wonderful looking
clbsmiley
interesting,,, leads you on, wanting more.
erlandpil
Very nice composition and scene erland
Hendesse
Fantastic composition. Superb poses, colors and mood. Excellent work!!
Nickieboy2004
Very nice!
ragouc
Very good pose and scene.
virginiese
nice render and sorry for the late comment :-)
mickuk50
Fantastic :o) Mick
pops
This is a great series
2121
love this one, your story and images are so good ,, keep it up
mariogiannecchini
Very nice scene and story. Great characters, outfits and lighting!
anahata.c
More serious preparations, and talks with leaders, etc. The pacing is strong and engaging (I mean the pacing of the writing). And I really like the quick pause as they go to Eve's mother's home, or the family ranch: a moment of peace between the catastrophies surrounding them. Another interruption in the action, which you always handle well. The gift is fascinating, and has mythic qualities. The idea of a face made of snake-heads which can possibly move (when moved to do so). A very mythic idea. And the mini drama of JS thinking the snakes moved, when he knows they can't; only to discover that they actually may have, after all. Nicely done, Flavia. And you end on the affirmation---this is an imbued empowered gift, and that ancient face is, in some way, looking after its descendants in the deep future. The image is like an Old West home, simple and rustic---that wood burning stove is a prime example. It all moves around the center, with a table and the three people standing around it, one to each side, eve in the center. And the gift is very enticing, esp as we don't get to see Naga's whole face, as we're viewing it from the side. But the snakes definitely reach out of the 'frame' and into JS's space. Truly fascinating. And Eve's mother has handled age well! She looks very young, and she's wearing one of the most colorful outfits in any number of images preceding this. It's almost a combination of Native American and Eastern European. A few objects are in the foreground, to give us the space of the room. All very well done. The text is hectic and frantic in spots, as it's supposed to be; but the image is a moment of repose which looking into the mysteries of the past, and communicates across centuries, to the present. More fine work, Flavia.