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Goddess Mu in their midst had
passed, the Council members listened with reverence to what she had
to say.
    “Dear hearts,” started Mu. “I thank you for living
according to my laws, and for making your lives so beautiful and
pure. The time of reckoning has come. I came to tell you the bad
news and the good news. The bad news is planet Catharsis is quickly
moving toward its destruction; the good news—you can be saved.”
    “This is such a relief,” said Alton.
“Blessed Mu, we are most anxious to hear how we can save ourselves,
and how we can help these unfortunate Catharsians!”
    “Dear Elder,” responded Mu. “Bless your kind
heart for still wanting to help the Catharsians after what they did
to your people. But unfortunately, they inflicted this situation
upon themselves and therefore, cannot be saved. My offer applies
only to the Lemurians. I will take your people to the new blessed
land with lush meadows and beautiful trees, with flowing rivers and
bountiful harvest. In that land you’ll know no cruelty, and you’ll
be able to raise your young without fear.”
    “But Catharsians are in need of our help.
Can we bring them along to this blessed land?”
    In response, Mu just silently shook her
head, her eyes soft and sorrowful. “You must make your decision
soon, Elder. Bring your people to the southern field at this hour
tomorrow, and I will take them to safety.” With these words, Mu
slowly dissolved into the bright column of golden light, which kept
diminishing until only a tiny spark remained. The spark flew up,
up, up… Everyone in the room followed it upwards with the longing
eyes…until it was gone.
    “So be it,” said Alton, his eyes still
lingering on the spot where the spark used to be. “I don’t need
long to make my own decision. My wife and son will go, and I will
stay behind to try to help the unfortunate Catharsians. Someone has
to. And what say you, distinguished Elders?”
    “I will stay, too,” said another Elder.
    “And I.”
    “And I.”
    “Our people should go, especially the young.
And we, the Elders, should stay,” agreed Ulan, the Elder from
Morf’s native sector No. 5. Ulan came from Morf’s neighboring
village, and Sector No. 5 was Ulan’s territory.
    All nine Elders were in consensus. They
should all stay and the rest of their people should go to the new
promised land with Mu.
    “Wait!” exclaimed Morf, who had been so
quiet that everyone forgot he was still in the room. “You can’t all
stay! We need you! Remember, you are still our Elders!”
    “Don’t worry, my son. The new Elders will
rise to the call when the time comes,” responded Alton. “This is
our planet and we know no other; we must stay to try and prevent
its destruction. Perhaps we can still spare many lives.”
    “But Goddess Mu says they cannot be helped,”
objected Morf. “We must all go together and know happiness in the
new land. We’ll need your wisdom there.”
    “The new happiness is for you and our other
children, my son. We have known great happiness here, on Catharsis.
And as to the wisdom, there is plenty of that to go around among
our people.”
    The Elders all nodded in agreement, as Morf
tried to digest everything he just heard. Somehow, without anyone
noticing, Morf had become the tenth member of the Council, and the
Elders accepted him without any objection. Perhaps it happened
because to them, he represented the point of view of the young
generation, which in these extreme circumstances, they were
interested in hearing, or perhaps they already knew what was to
come. In any event, Elders accepted him as one of their own. The
discussion continued for a few more minutes, after which each Elder
went to his or her own sector to convey the news and to come to a
consensus as to what to do next. Each family, each village and each
sector was to make a decision as to who would go and who would
stay. After that, the Elders were to reconvene at Alton’s hut at
dawn to develop a plan