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the inside of her belly. “I am ready to handle whatever you want to tell me, Miss Maggie.”
    Indie hoped that she sounded more convincing from the outside of her body, than she sounded to herself.
    Maggie replaced her head on her stack of pillows and smiled.
    Jackson’s face creased with a look of momentary distress, and she squeezed his hand in a comforting way before speaking.
    “Good. Now we can begin”

Chapter 3
    Miss Maggie’s Tale
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable , must be the truth.”
The Sign of the Four , chapter 6 (1890)
Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four
    “First you must clear your head of all your preconceived ideas of the possible, please, or you will never be able to hear me,” she began. Indie winced but kept silent as a burst of coughing shook Maggie’s tiny frame. She recovered, and pressed on.
    “As I said, this story begins approximately one hundred and twenty billion years ago, long after the Ancestors had watched this planet boil, flare and finally cool. This, they observed with clinical detachment, interested in the shaping of the materials, and what they were becoming.”
    At this point, Indie opened her mouth, ready to interrupt this dialog right away, but she caught Jackson’s eye, and somehow read a gentle warning from him, and a slight negative movement of his head. Indie closed her mouth with a snap as Maggie continued.
    “And then there was life! As the first microscopic being drew breath, the fascination grew, as did the complexity of those beings. And the Ancestors grew excited, amazed at the life evolving before their eyes.
    It has been said that Baghdad is the cradle of civilization; however, this is a myth. One of a thousand civilizations was born there, but this was not the beginning. The birthplace of human kind truly began in the Nurnanov Region approximating Russia, near the city of Ufa.
    The wild lands were cleared, the waters drained away in preparation for a great Society.
    A city where people would be born to learn, to understand and put to full use the gifts that they had been given by the Creator. They were granted the great knowledge by the architects of this Society, to create a highly advanced community.
    Two hundred maps were created, carved from dolomite and diopside. They were inscribed with intricate three-dimensional maps of the world, including every mountain range, forest, the Rivers Bely, Ufimka and Sutolka, as well as the Great Ufa Canyon. These were distributed by Society Elders to various parts of this planet, given as gifts to all life forms there.
    The plan was to bring to this world the greatness that is shared beyond it. All over this beautiful but still new and wild land, grand structures and chambers were built using a system that the ancients referred to as ‘Sacred Geometry,’ based on mathematical measurements in relation to simple shapes.
    Society Ancestors taught the people to construct the sacred places using specific geometrical ratios. This allowed them to better connect with their Creator, and to feel the vibrations, the language of the Earth.”
    Maggie sighed and shook her head
    “I will not waste time speaking the names of those races yet to be discovered from so very long ago. The remnants of those Societies have gone back to the Earth, and may never be known by the general masses. Instead, I will focus on the recent history . . . the known cultures, and how our Ancestors have touched them.
    At first, in the earliest years, it was simple. The Ancestors would present themselves to the strongest and most intelligent of colonized life forms, moving to tribal leaders as time wore on. The life here believed, and listened eagerly to what the strange visitors had to say, and absorbed their knowledge with boundless thirst. It wasn’t like it is today, with modern sensibilities so cynical they refuse to acknowledge the new and unknown.”
    It was this last statement that caused Indie