Chapter Four – In the Beginning
NOW IT BECAME CLEAR why Gavin had arranged their meeting in an auditorium. On a square stage before them a holographic video began to play, showing an alien planet. Two suns shone in the sky, and the planet surface was coated in a light mist. Rising from the mist were bare, rocky mountains stretching to the horizon. It was a barren, inhospitable place.
Carrie shifted in her seat as the video carried them over the mountains and down towards the surface. She wondered what lay under that mist, and what the placktoids’ story was of their creation. She recalled Gavin saying no one knew what had happened to the beings that made them. Presumably the placktoids had filled in the gap with a story. The placktoids had culture and society the same as organic sentient
