THE STORY OF THE TROGLODYTES

We know not where we come from. One day we were not. The next day, we were. We know we were once a mighty people. Then we were not. Now again we are. But the generations between us are gone. We have ancestors, but no fathers or mothers.

They who brought us back again are called by us the Glowing Ones. They brought us to get our vengeance on the humans who took us from the world. This was good to us! Great, we said, would be the flow of glood that we would bring forth.

But then, curse the Glowing Ones, they brought back the giants with us as well! The giants, the great enemy! We remember little, but we remember that! The Ones connected our castle to that of the giants by a tunnel. What a gift! We charged through the tunnels and they charged back. The Glowing Ones, curse them, were angered! We must fight the humans, they said! So they closed the tunnel with the Great barrier, and the giants were far from us.

But our foes exist, and we will feed on them yet. One day the barrier will come down and our war may be resumed, Until then, humans will be our meat. But we live by the Great Dream.