Introduction continued.
“I have another job for you. I want you to drop off a message for me,” a new fourth voice cut in.
“Dream, what the hell are you doing here!” Destiny asked angrily.
“Where else would I be? That mortal is going to dream the future, which means I need to send him the dreams. Now, as that’s all finished with, can I join you for drinks?”
“It’s your round then, and you can't use Trobjorn as a messenger, it’s not his destiny. You can go find your own mortal to hang out with. Trobjorn is busy,” Destiny sullenly said, not wanting to share his new friend with his brother.
“I can if Trobjorn has a dream tonight where he meets someone in the future to give them a message,” thought Dream with a sly smile.
Dribede became the most famous Ick in their long illustrious history, although he was also the most unpopular Ick ever. His message wasn’t a welcome one and the phrase don’t shoot the messenger didn’t exist to the Ick or Dribede’s prophecy would have been much shorter, as they would not have been able to stop themselves. As it was, Dribede lived a long life before choking to death on his shoes thirty years after delivering his first prophetic rant. The book about his dreams became a guide to his people, but one where the dreams continued to evolve even after his death, as the chaos of a Nexus who would change the future was set down, and the hope of avoiding defeat was instilled within the Ick people. They knew at the end of days the Nexus would stagger drunkenly across the universe, aided by the chosen few heroes, thwarting those who would try to destroy them.
THE RETURN OF THE HUNTER.
Chapter 1.
INTERSTELLAR NEWS CHANNEL 9. NEWS FLASH.
News has come in that the dead Ick leader, Wickede, personally led the latest Ick counter-attack. In fierce fighting the Federation forces have made strategic withdrawals as they prepare for their next offensive. In a short statement to the Senate the gains made by the Ick were dismissed as part of the Federation Navies’ long-term plans, and an end to the war of the coffee bean was in sight.
In related news the High Priest of the Order of Righteous Indignation has condemned the use of necromancy by the Ick and declared that all who stand with the Ick are heretics in the eyes of the Celestial Jellyfish of Judgement.
When a local frozen seafood merchant mentioned that maybe the Ick leader was not killed when reported assassinated, he was battered to death by an angry mob led by the High Priest, who was allegedly wielding a frozen jellyfish. The death of the merchant is being reported as the Celestial Jellyfish’s judgement on unbelievers by church officials. Wide-scale panic buying of tinned foods in preparation for a zombie apocalypse caused by Wickede’s resurrection has been played down by authorities as ridiculous.
To be continued.
All images are mine.
