XI MASTRONDAVAY

Where it was reaching, he didn't know. He looked over the edge, but no matter how he looked, he couldn't see deep enough to see how far it was reaching. Holding the edge with his fingers, he lay there, and even so his toes felt like they were lifting, like someone was going to tip him over into that abyss too.

He heard a clatter from deep. But the darkness was starting too soon to know what was clattering. And if he lowered himself over the edge, even a little, he wouldn't get back. By then he heard about a big bunch of cases of someone going down a black hole. This wasn't a black hole, it was the wormhole. If anything surprised him, it was the strange clattering sound that said, "Help, help me. I'm down here!"

When he pulled back the metallic rope, he noticed that it was shorter, and the end was also rusted. Well, that´s really something, he thought. Guess he'll have to take his chances. Hagrsleel growled in there, and what would he do without him. MastronDavay cautiously lowered himself down first with one foot, then slowly with the other, still holding on, but his arms were pretty weak, so he finally let go.

He woke up in the total darkness. His skin itched, probably caught rust. His head was buzzing. He was glad he'd kept the thought of Hagrsleel in his mind. He groped with his hands in the dark. And suddenly he was holding Hagrsleel´s leg. "There you are. Come here." Hagrsleel, smelling him, immediately hugged him.

"But how do we get back." One minute he was on his knees, the next he was on his poop. The stone ceilings were very low. He scraped his head here and there, but he didn't really care. He followed the cold gust that winded across his nose. When he emerged into the light, he fainted. "Where am I?" He asked immediately.

The light stung his eyes so badly that he shaded them even though he was lying in a darkened room. There were several figures standing around him, he couldn't make them out. "Don't speak, lest you hurt yourself." He heard. "We found you out on the hills of Shventan." "Where's Hagrsleel?" MastronDavay asked over and over again. Hagrsleel was not with him.

"We don't know. He wasn't with you when we found you." "No, no, where is he?" "Shhh, don't say anything, you'll ruin your vocals." "Why would I...," but they jumped right in. "You know, something happened to you. We don't know what it is. But your neck and your whole body are burned." "Let me see! Show me!" MastronDavay shouted. But no one moved. So he raised himself, but the very sight of his hands stopped him.

They were blackened, as if someone had been burned by acid. "Show me the homer!" Nobody moved. "Hand it to me!" He held out his hand. When he looked at the homer, he went crazy. No one has spoken to him since. They continued to care for him, but as it turned out, it was the most tragic mistake they made. They all contracted that disease. MastronDavay was the first to bring the Hakunbelan plague to the planet.

And yet, MastronDavay lived long and infected a large number of people. All those who came into contact with him from the first maefee he was found in the hills of Shventan to all those who have been in his vicinity, even indirectly. The Hakunbelan plague spread in waves. It affected the structures of the physical body. Range 500 toelens.

Within moments, the plague spread in waves to the most desolate corners of the planet Wetlandbad. The first to die were the last to be infected, and the last to die were those infected in the wormhole, whether in Wetlandbad or elsewhere. No one knew how it spread from planet to planet. The plague swept through the Moshquenseer dimension at breakneck speed.

Within two shcandeens, the plague affected most of the planets. The NADAPLEB VER STEMHABA could not begin remediation in time. That's why billions of Moshquenseer's inhabitants died. One hundred and sixty thousand planets were sanitized. 500,000 souls survived. It was to Mastron's advantage that he went mad. His soul quickly burst out of his body and floated above him on a thin line. So he didn't feel much pain.

Pain generally so exhausted the victims of the Hakunbelan plague that they died early, even though the plague had not yet affected all the vital organs. It was part of the organism of the disease. The plague carrier had to stay alive as long as possible. Without the ripples, the plague wouldn't have spread. And he was the carrier of the ripple. If everyone they found was killed, the plague wouldn't spread. But no one knew that.

There was just a huge panic, because the plague was taking away indentity. The self was disappearing, leaving a burned, scalded body with no mental connection to the core. The further you were from the source of the contagion, the more pain you experienced, the faster your body withered and burned into itself. Souls only shot out of the body of those who were in close contact with the first sick person. Ironically, The NADAPLEB VER STEMHABA thus saved only those who were infected first and those who introduced the disease to the planet from the wormhole.

MastronDavay was one of the last to have his soul evacuated from Wetlandbad in the dimension of Moshquenseer to the dimension of Torovan by The NADAPLEB VER STEMHABA. Then it was one big stellar massacre. The planetary reclamation was no longer taking place without the goal of saving anyone. Therefore, the dimension of Moshquenseer was completely closed and declared very dangerous.

If there was still life on a planet somewhere when the dimension was closed, then it was certainly not. The Council of the Younger Freaks sorted out soul capsules and that one with MastronDavay headed to FX6FEE. Although loaded last, it shipped out first. The distribution of souls across the dimension Torovan, in the multigalaxy of Natrabal, to the galaxies of Moushramee, Heugene, Lalika, Dakaval and MaybiPerhapi was said to have been gradual, focusing on minor planets such as FX6FEE, as it was unclear how the Hakunbelan plague spread and whether or not the soul itself could carry the disease. A swift process was then made with those who sanitized the planets. They were all sent to the planet Haynom in Dolelee near the Hakandrath Curvature, where they were ordered to quarantine.

No one ever left the planet again, although they could not have contracted the plague, because all the source patients succumbed to the disease and the ripples ceased. "Wake up, wake up," the visitior HondeyKa from The Hospital floaflee KASAREM bowed over MastronDavay's body. Mastron slowly opened his eyes and the first thing he saw was the poster for the movie KROFTRA upside down.

"Show me the homer!" Nobody moved. "Hand it to me!" He held out his hand.