All right! Who wants to read the prologue to my next story?!
Date: The 54th Year of the Silver Dominion
Location: Fervia, Lakechant Archeological Site
Time: 9 past Zenith.
Professor Lakechant gazed at the piles of documents that lay before him. Years of research, compiled into one office. He ran his sleeve across his brow. All his work, every bone, every artifact, every ruin that he had unearthed amounted to this last dig. He stood up and left his tent.
Outside, two of the three suns were already setting, casting a brilliant amber shade across the entire skyscape. Below, on the dig site, which extended almost to the horizon, slaved away hundreds of native workers, all looking for the same thing. Lakechant thought the heat to be unbearable, but the natives could easily perform hard labour in this merciless desert.
Caught up in his musings, the professor did not see Aurelius, his apprentice, who was overseeing the dig, come running up to him.
"Sir! Professor Lakechant, sir!"
The professor spun on his heels,
"Yes boy? What is it?"
"I think--" The boy began,
"What?! Spit it out!" Snapped the professor, made anxious by the sweltering heat.
"I think-- I think we have it."
The professor immediately started running, "Where?! Where did you put it?!"
"It's in my rest tent, sir."
The professor started sprinting. He attained a speed quite unusual for someone of his age and status. Upon reaching the tent, he threw aside the door flaps. He stopped. His eyes widened.
"The Gods are with us," he whispered.
The tent was poorly lit, but one could make out a small, leather-bound book lying on the oak desk. The professor picked it up, careful not to damage the age-old binding. The apprentice looked over his shoulder,
"Sir?" He asked.
"Boy, if there's one thing that you must call your legacy, let this be it."
"I'm not sure I understand, sir."
Lakechant looked up at his apprentice.
"Oh," the professor said, "but you will."
And then he opened the book.