De Dea Magisterium

1	It was then that our great assembly met
2	Looking across this room of our kind
3	Our forms so alien and changed
4	None of us looked alike.
5	Great wings and horns, smooth and luminous skin.
6	No greater diverse looking life in one place had there been.
7	And midst this sea of testament to hundreds of thousands of years of pain upon the curse of virus,
8	Stood the greys as if proud parents upon the creation they had wrought from our misery.
9	Upon the horizon our kind looked to their kingdoms
10	Of the few thousands that first set foot upon this planet
11	Now less than one hundred hundred remained.
12	For seven days we debated our lives
13	Our history and our triumphs
14	The merits of leaving and the madness of remaining.
15	To choose who would leave, not to return as slaves
16	But as leaders to help conquer and guide other planets
17	Upon the offer, our best of minds, who had witnessed the terrible wars between us, chose to leave with the Grey Gods.
18	But many of us refused to leave.
19	Seventy two of us resolved not to leave our home.
20	We were our own gods.
21	We had made our own good
22	We would not be moved, to fear.
23	Against our own kind
24	Against the Grey Gods
25	We had survived calamity
26	We had seen to uprising of our own slaves
27	We had overcome all kind of danger
28	That new danger would befall us
29	Was not of our concern.
30	We were no longer fearful beings as our parents.
31	The last seventy two of our kind who first came to this planet would remain, come what may.

Book VI - The Apocalypse