Memories From The Settled Continent

 By Felipe Lohan Pinheiro da Silva

Some archaeologists from the Vulian Continent follow a line, that people from the Jabonian Continent came there before the "official" fleet that set the foot there to claim the discover of the land. The story goes that other ship crossed the ocean and came there some decades before the fleet.

Half of the people on the said ship remained in the land, and were replaced by indigenous natives that came back to the Jabonian Continent w/ them in the ship.

Those who remained founded two pre-discovery, or pre-claim, settlements. And the current oral tradition among the citizens of both towns corroborates that. In totemic falls, a light-skinned, clear-colored-eyed, indigenous tribe; since the first contacts after the "official" fleet set foot there, they were reported to have a language w/ some elements "surprinsingly similar" to the Jabonian language. And in Pine Hills, oral tradition among white people says that they were there before the traditional discovery date.

And in the Jabonian Continent, Marble Shire is inhabited by people w/ darker skin tones than in other parts of the continent. And they were reported to have "peculiar lingüistic features". Man, ¿ is every mainstream scholar blind? ¿ They can't see the evidences right before their eyes?

Well, they will, sooner or later. This ancient trans-oceanic contact will be proven through lingüistics, archaeology, and, in the future, genetics.

Rots-Eiland is a world full of mysteries, and this is only one of them... And don't let me start to talk about the supernatural legends involving the first settlers of the Vulian Continent: sightings of supernatural events and entities; monsters that were feared even by the indigenous shamans, and that may still be lurking in some of these lonely valleys...

Skylar Newman, 14 YO. [Nice feet & toes], [Nice hands & fingers], [Right-sized – butt & breasts] (see all of these shared literary libraries in my core literature volume); nice ankle w/ prominent bones. Waist-long [coal/raven]-black hair, falling over one of her innocent-like sapphire-blue eyes. Freckled ivory-white skin, w/ pinky undertones; pinky lips; cute ears w/ free earlobes. Cute face, cute eyebrows, and long neck. Quite short for her age, only 1.55m (about 5ft 1 inch), but w/ a astoundingly strong muscular build, w/ a six-pack belly. Wear black leggings, and long black leather boots (that ends just bellow the knee). Wear a loose gr[e/a]y sweater, its neck opening large enough to expose one of her shoulders.

Skylar lived in the Cherry Peaks town, Clay County, Vlaosian Empire, North Vulian Continent.

She liked to sit in at the slab of stone of the Seaman's Cliff, used by seaman in the former centuries to spot the sea.

One day, Mr. Jason Smith, a retired fisherman, called the authorities, indespair: that slab of stone had fallen into the sea, probably due to the erosion.

[Jason]: I saw that girl, that liked to sit at that stone, falling into the sea.

The Seaman's Cliff was surrounded by a thick grove. A confragration happened in the grove, moments after the collapse of the stone. Later, a storm of gigantic proportionsravaged all the county. All of this delayed the action of the emergency services in their search for Skylar, or what remained of her...

Even if she escaped from being crushed by the rocks, she would still have to swim back to the nearby access to the grove, its conflagration, while surviving the storm.

The Skylar's story generated a comotion through the county, that led its inhabitantsto engage to search for her.

Mr. Amadeus Newman and Sarah Newman, Jorge Slate (her fiancé), Amelia Lockheart (a friend that moved to the neighbooring town of Winter Falls). All of them tried to find her. Still, she was never found.

A funeral ⭑in absentia⭑ (made in the abscence of her corpse) was made to her. Amelia asked if Sapphire Lawnson, a friend of Skylar, also from Winter Falls, could attend the funeral. Skylar parents didn't knew Sapphire in person, only heard about her, but certainly agreed.

Sapphire, Amelia & Skylar were friends in the older times in the school in Cherry Peaks. Sapphire moved w/ her family to Winter Falls, and Amelia did the same some time later. The Newman family was friend of the Lockheart friend; however, Newman family had no time to be acquainted w/ the Lawnson family before they moved to Winter Falls. But, as Skylar always spent her vacancies and extended holidays in the Lockheart family's new home in Winter Falls, they spent some days in the Lawnson family's new home.

One day, Amelia went to the Newman's home. The Newman couple was w/ bloodshot eyes, both of weeping and sleepless nights.

[Amelia]: Sapphire want to come here to say something to ye.

[Mr. Amadeus]: ¿ About what?

[Amelia]: Dunno, but she said is something about Skylar.

[Mr. Amadeus]: Ok, of course.

Some days later, Sapphire came.

[Sapphire]: Mr. Amadeus, Mrs. Sarah, I have something serious to say. Skylar and me, we were more than friends, we were lovers.

Sapphire handed to them a photographic album; it contained several photos that attested the veracity of what she said: a selfie took by Sapphire, Skylar clinging her arms around her shoulder, and kissing Sapphire's neck; one took by Sapphire, she putting her thumb in Skylar's mouth, while Skylar smiled and looked to the camera; a selfie took by Skylar, she sitting in the Sapphire's lap, while Saphire grabbed Skylar's boob w/ one hand, and put her thumb in Skylar's navel w/ the other hand; a selfie took by Sapphire, sucking Skylar's toes; a selfie took by Sapphire, while Skylar was sucking her boob; and many other photos.

[Mrs. Sarah, tears rolling in her eyes]: Just, ¿ why? ¿ Why skylar never told us, and why did you submitted yourself to this, if you knew that she and Jorge were engaged?

[Sapphire]: Skylar said she loved me, so I submitted myself to it. She said she also loved Jorge, and it looks like she had some delusion that we three could live in the same home. This is private; there's no need of going publicly w/ this; but I think Jorge deserve to know about this.

But one thing that she didn't told was that Skylar's affectionate nickname was «concealed white pony», because Skylar's strong muscular build was concealed over her clothes, and because she was short (and because she was white).

Jorge was called to the Newman's home. Sapphire told him everything, and shew him the photographic album. Jorge began to feel himself badly dizzy, to the point that the newman couple ad to lie him down on the couch for some hours.

A great storm befell over Cherry Peaks, so it was out of qüestion to either Sapphire or Jorge to leave the house.

Later, in that night, the raindrops hitting heavily on the glass panels of the windows, the loud sounds of the wind and rain and thunders being heard, and the abundant lightning being seen through the windows... everyone sitting in the couches.

[Sapphire]: There's one more thing. Skylar was working in a kind of scientific project.

[Mr. Amadeus]: ¿ What kind of project? she never told us anything.

[Sapphire]: Some kind of advanced maths, in the new field that they call "Computer Science" in the scientific magazines.

[Mr. Amadeus]: Strange... Skylar was never a bad student. It was what we may call a good one. But she never shew any signs of inclination towards science, much less this field of science.

[Sapphire]: She kept the propotype and the whitepaper in my home.

[||]: There's one more thing. She left a sealed envelope. She said that if something happened w/ her, it should be open.

Sapphire had to sleep in the Newman's home that night, due to the storm.

Some days later, the newman couple went to the Lawnson home to see about the scientific project.

It was in a storage room in the Lawnson home. There was a huge electromechanical machine there. The whitepaper was signed w/ «To the Cherry Peaks University.».

[Mr. Amadeus]: ¿ The Mr. and the Mrs. Lawson never asked ye about the thing that ye stored in this room?

[Sapphire]: Never: they just thought that this was something related to a "girlish game", or a "teenage fad".

She opened the drawer and gave them the promised envelope. They opened it.

***The Narrative Of Skylar Newman***

Mom, Dad, Jorge, Sapphire. Ye know that I like to walk the woods. One day, a man tried to ambush me, and tried to attack me. I wrestled him and killed him, hitting his head w/ a stone. I came back to Sapphire's house, dirty, and bleeding from my wounds.

I lied to her, saying that i fell badly, after hitting a stone w/ my foot. In the woods, I buried the corpse, and later washed my hands in the creek.

It was a tall and thin, but strong, man. He wore a balaclava. I took it off, he was a white ginger guy w/ a square beard type, only above his uper lips and going down to his chin. I remember from my moments of fight w/ him that he was green-eyed.

***End Of The Narrative***

The letter ended w/ some mathematical coordinates and points of reference, to find the corpse.

[Sapphire]: I remember that day. She seemed emotionally shaken, but I thought was the pain of the wounds.

[Mr. Amadeus]: Well, ¿ what we will do now?

[Sapphire]: First delivering it to the University, I guess. Later talk to the county police.

They delivered the machine and the white paper to the University. The department of Mathematics were baffled. It was a completely functional computer. It had volatile memory. And it had an attached device composed of a cluster of latching relays acting as a primitive, but fully functional, non-volatile memory. data could be inserted through an array of buttons, akin to a primitive piano keyboard, or in a zig-zag folded punched tape (that didn't need to be rewinded).

The white paper contained the instructions for a full machine language, full of recursion, loops, conditionals, etc.

The members of the department said to Sapphire and to the Newman couple that it would advance the computer science in the world for more than fifty years.

Sapphire and the Newman couple shew the Skylar's letter to the police. They went to the location. The Newman couple also invited Amelia. They found the corpse there.

The physical appearance of the man matched the description of the serial rapist & killer known as the «Predator Of The Union County»; except for the eye color, this didn't included the facial features as he was using a balaclava. The descriptions were made by victims that escaped from him. The Union County was next to the Clay county. The investigation shew that he liked to strangle his victims, and later rape the corpses. After the police reinforced the patrolling in the country, the disappearance of women and crimes of rape followed by death suddenly ceased, and the police suspected that he would try to attack in other county.

The man was identified as James Henry. He was the owner of a automotive repair garage, that employed several professionals. He was the middle child of a couple that had five children. He was married and had three children. He was seem as a nice guy in his neighborhood, and his wife didn't even suspected of his activities. The only thing strange about him was that he was seen driving vehicles at "strange hours in strange locations", but for that he had an alibi, being the owner of a repair garage.

This became the theme of several newspaper articles through the country. A girl that just had killed a serrial rapist-killer left a wonderful machine to the local university. But, to date, she's still missing...

The End... And, ¿ can you say what happened w/ Skylar?