Tempel from The Cycle by RED EYE
Second Act
CHAPTER III – Tempel
1. A Glimpse of Light
Dawn came at last. A group of volunteers decided to explore the surrounding area. They wanted to reach the top of the mountain and see if there was anything of interest. As they went higher, there were less and less trees. The landscape changed, as more bushes and wild flowers began to appear, providing new colours and scents: hawthorns, white asphodels, a wide variety of orchids and ferns, bluebells, hyacinths and many more. There were ruins as well, scattered here and there.
Some of them had the same eerie sensation they had felt when they first entered the forest the night before. The area was rough, full of huge greyish rocks shaped in the most strange ways, as if the wind had sculpted them that way on purpose. It was then that they saw it.
2. The Dolmen
A large flat stone supported over two massive pillars, covered in ivy and carved into the face of a rock cliff. It was the entrance to an ancient temple, built by their people in the days of old. The impressive portico was guarded on one side by a huge maple tree; the only tree in the nearby area. Bewildered by this discovery, they went in cautiously.
The air inside the temple was cool and humid. The stone walls, the floor and the ceiling were full of carved symbols and drawings. On the wall at the end there was a huge carving of Beorg, the sacred mountain, the embodiment of Mother Earth, framed by an inscription. They went back to the ruined village and then returned to the temple, this time accompanied by one of the elders who could read the language of their forefathers. The inscription appeared to be some kind of spell somehow linked to the Mountain, so he decided to stay there alone, meditating and trying to figure out the ancient words.
