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emotions. On the one hand I was mesmerized, and on the other terrorized.
A very particular combination of emotions I’d say. I wanted to stay in that
place of extraordinary beauty, yet I also wanted to go back home in a hurry.
Through this projection fifteen human beings from Earth got to know the
beautiful place were our kidnapper and two of his creatures with bulging
eyes and large heads came from. But there was more to come. We got to a
valley surrounded by mountains. There was an abundance of waterfalls and
all kinds of vegetation and flowers of electrifying colors. We stopped and
our seats commenced turning as they had done before. We slowly observed
the gorgeous landscape. As we turned he spoke again:
- Observe this place well. This is how your Earth should look like. In
the beginning, where you come from was indeed designed this way.
Our seats continued to turn slowly and his voice became, for lack of other
noises and sounds, the center of my attention. He continued:
- Among you there are some who will contribute to the
reestablishment of your world’s original beauty.
By now, I couldn’t tell fact from fiction.
The seats stopped turning and we ended up facing him. He started to talk to
those who were in the first line. To these first five he called individually by
their names and looked at deeply into their eyes. He gave them some sort of
task. Some were assigned to the care of the animals, others to the sea and
its many species. Others were assigned to agriculture, the birds and others
things I don’t recall. When it was my turn I remembered I couldn’t look
him in the eye. I was terrified of his deep penetrating look. Even though I
didn’t look at him, still he addressed me.
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