Trespassers, Pt. 3 of 7. The girls, especially Hannah, giggled at Sally when she put the round swim mask securely over her face. It looked a bit large but was snug, to purse her lips and distort her loud voice when she sneered back at her. Shortly after she disappeared below the surface of the water, Sheila and Hannah quietly entered the water on opposite sides of the boat, the former of them uttering a pleasurable sigh. Sally could only see a little further deep downward than before even with the mask on, but much clearer. The bottom was still a murky indistinct green pall, but after she laboriously swam down over five meters just above it, she did spot a couple of gray-brown jawless fish filter feeding on it. The largest appeared to be a little over thirty centimeters long, but both had distinct protective bony plates over the exterior parts of their bodies and were thus poor swimmers. She also saw other less di
Trespassers, Pt. 2 of 7. The plants all about looked very different, unlike anything they had ever seen before, yet beautiful in form and arrangement. Peering up, they found the sky to have a hazy orange-yellow color with some more mist about the strange dividing treetops -- leafless green tendrils with secondary curled branches. Everything was some various hue of green. There were no flowers or insects and birds in sight, but around the wide trunks of the many odd trees were numerous ferns and horsetails of various sizes. They also had no idea what kinds of other plants there were: floating, attached, interconnected, whatever. It was an unusual botanical paradise. "Wonderful!" Sally Breathed. "It's absolutely beautiful, just like a dream." "It's . . . okay," Sheila remarked, more mundanely. "Could be better," Hannah also commented, "
Trespassers, Pt. 1 of 7. How often is it that just when everything that is apparently possible to be learned or discovered about something, whatever it may be, that the something reveals a new characteristic, which in turn opens up all new mysteries about it -- to destroy all previously known concepts and laws about it? Better said, how often does the unknown revamp the known by further or accidental exploration, and by how much then? No doubt, the examples are many from atoms to galaxies, the seen and unseen, and the natural and supernatural, all of which are interdependent on each other in a multitude of ways. Thus, the unknown with all its countless enigmatic mysteries is always some distance around us, constantly waiting for the right time to affect the known and bring forth more questions, for better and for worse. Often enough, the discoveries of the unknown are dangerous when randomly found by the ignorant and seemingly always -- the innocents. &
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