Welcome to Gaia! ::

mmmMM... :::Kara raised her chin looking down at Mystina:::

That my dear is the war-time celebrity of our age... Those hundreds of years that humans stayed locked up in their metal cities, the leaders neglected to tell them that a fourth age in atmosphere had successfully evolved.

:::Kara glanced down at the berry:::

With the oceans and plant lifeforms gone, there was nothing left to support the distribution of the unnatrual but neccessary occurance of di-oxygens. Carbon-monoxide as well as the overwhelming presence of ultraviolet light and heat would destroy humans who would step out...

but in those hundreds of years, new micro-organisms evolved, kinds that survived solely on CO2. We call them sandaglea. In their carbondioxide respiration they left an O2 waste, and eventually trioxigens re-emerged as a result, but this time in the more appropriately colder and denser mesophere. The earth is still very scarred from the last time it scorched, but our desert planet is now just as capable of bearing life as when it was an ocean-based world.

Humans though... we're struggling to keep up... we still need water, and plants... We still depend on science that way. :::Kara looked sad for a moment, but then became stern again::: The people inside the metal city don't know. Their leaders are lying to them, keeping them to control them. Some of us have escaped, and we fight in order to keep ourselves free.

Yes well, they have their dillusions... same as they think we do too. The reason we're still alive is that we could care less about controlling them. We're on the defensive, and we know the land. That, and they're out of resources. Either they can spend what they've got detsroying us and sacrifice themselves, or... they can just leave us alone. They don't like either option, but they're actually pretty smart when it comes down to it. They figured out their best chance is to stay out of it.

:::Kara shook her head:::

No, dear. The generations of leaders in Omegatropolis who'v lied for so long don't intend to give up the gig. They'll pass down the power to whomever they want. The thousands that survive inside the walls don't know that we even exist, that there's even a war going on. Only the leaders. If we were to be discovered by the public moral would break and chaos would ensue. They prefer to keep their comfort and their power... and pretend like our species isn't dying inside those walls just as much as it is out in our desert. At least humans are beginning to live again, and make the best of it.

:::She rolled the little berry between her fingers:::

We predict that humanity will run out of the things we need to survive on earth within the next couple hundred years so... why not party like it's 3399?

Yes, Mystina.

:::Kara stands up, the berry carefully tucked inside her palm, gently wrapped in a fist:::

And in that spirit, I think I should go and tell my people about the gift we've been given. :::She smiled, a bit sinisterly:::

Would you do me a favor, Mystina?

Good... good. If you walk into the library, you'll find two men, Luke and Dafyd. They're probably saying nasty things about me in between sucking each other off. Could you give them this message for me?

:::She leaned down and whispered it in Mystina's ear:::

Oh, and give Luke a BIG wet kiss from me before you say it.

Well that was the point. Hm... maybe just the second part then. Oh, and can you make a gesture with your hand, like this?

:::Kara flips up her middle finger:::

Luke will get it.... Of course, this is after both the kiss, and the message. If Luke asks what the kiss is for tell him...

:::She whispers again:::

Got it?

:::She smiled:::

Oh. It's one of Luke's favorite hobbies. Ask him when you get in there.