Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

“It was gone almost two hundred years before I was born.For what it was worth, this time was a prelude to troublebecause the captains of Atlantean industry were alreadystirring up trouble by trying to find cheap labor on themainland. My time was where that lead, a ruined economyand a culture overrun and corrupted by foreigners. Oh themainlanders tried to imitate us as much as they could, theycould clearly see we were a whole different order ofcivilization. But they didn’t believe in the Goddess, theyneeded a stern male God and therefore strife and war. Besidesthat, it divided the people’s beliefs. But as you see it today,that has not happened. This city was still purely Minoan in1648bc. The people still believe in the Goddess in all herroles, they still know they will be judged and they still join incooperation for the common good.”They were passing a small island in the outer ring. A fewfishermen lived on it, along with a few small mansions alongthe nicest sandy beach. One of those boats with the oarsmenwere just pulling up. Ava could barely hear them from here,but somehow that made it a little easier to understand. Theman who had been rowed home was paying and thanking theoarsmen, who stood proudly with their oars pointed skyward.They were back in their boat and had pulled away in front ofthem while Ava, Yellelle and Podata bobbed along the side ofthat small island.The next island had a gentle shore with white sandbeaches backed by comfortable villas all along. There were469