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write this is to continue what my father started. Like I have previously stated we now know a lot more than we used to. For starters, when my father first wrote his account we where just beginning to form a society and understand the many teachings of the babblers. I (as my father has documented) was one of the children who had been lucky enough to have been chosen by the babblers, and as they talked and preached I (a chosen-one), who was still so very young had the fortune for there very words, ideas, and knowledge to become imprinted into my own thoughts. Others like me where granted the same gift, but it was my father who first opened up to what the babblers taught and encouraged me, and then others, to absorb the information given. This part is well documented by my father and that is how we as a people formed and grew to what and where we are today.

  Now we live not in caves or even the make-shift huts that we first made throughout the early days of the babblers. Now we live in stone houses surrounded by high bricked walls that guards patrol night and day, watching out for any form of danger and attack from hostile forces. We have also managed to contact other people from other parts of the country, and trade goods with over fourteen other tribes like ourselves.

  We have also been visited by tribes from other lands, sailing within ships of wood. These people had been suffering a similar fate to our own but like us had been saved also when possession of a child had taught them the ways of old.

  And so it appears that the babblers had planned not only to advance us, but all the other humans in existence as well. And why shouldn’t they. After all, the babblers where once human too.

 

  So what have we learned from our strange visitors? Well, virtually everything really, from writing, reading, arithmetic, to farming, medicine, art, an improved language, how to make electricity and steam powered engines and a thousand other things I shall document later and hopefully in greater detail within a journal not just from my own silly head but comprised from the scholars who know far more than I about the above skills mentioned.

 

  You see this with this last part I would just like to point out the one major thing that troubles me. Since we learned everything from the babblers we can now explain nearly all the mysteries that my father wrote about all those years ago. And even as the explosion of progression that has enveloped us now slows to a crawl, we have come to understand that the civilisation before us and the people that we called the babblers was merely our own ancestry virtually destroying themselves. But we still don’t exactly know on a scientific level what the babblers are.

  Even the books we’ve discovered from babbler society tell us that there are no such things in existence like the babblers. Although several fiction books talk of the dead coming back to visit the living, but these are usually just stories told for entertainment purposes. It does seem however that some of the people who we called babblers did believe in many things such as aliens, gods, monsters, and of course spirits, but they never had solid scientific proof to back them or their own personal beliefs up.

  So if this is the case then I ask you…What the hell are they? And why did they leave us?

  The first question I cannot answer. However, I have my own suspicions on why they left us. I believe one possibility may be that they only came to help us as they feared that there big mistake would cost the human race too great a price. This is perhaps why when we questioned them about what happened they refused to answer. If it was a war for example, then further questions would need to be asked such as who started it and why? And perhaps the answer to this question would be so horrible that the simpler response to it would be not to admit to the crime in the first place. Of course that would also suggest that the babblers who found us where the very ones responsible for the annihilation of humanity, feeling that the only way to atone for their sins was to help out the few who survived.

  Another possibility for their disappearance could be from the very science they taught. I have read various babbler books and it appears that early on in their culture that mystery and unexplainable strangeness where more acceptable even to the greater brains of there time. Of course science would disapprove and expel all superstition as it’s unquestionable proofs crushed all verbal nonsense before it until such things as magic, monsters, gods and the like were thought of as childish and ridiculous scaremongering. So perhaps then, with our very own evolution and progression that the babblers taught, we have evolved to a level were it is now impossible for us to believe in them.

  A bizarre paradox perhaps. But it does make you think!

 

  Anyway. Perhaps it is not for the likes of me and you to wonder at. After all, if they hadn’t come then as our scientists believe we would have probably died out as the orcs and wargs numbers were becoming far greater than our own. Extinction they say was inevitable if the babblers had not stepped in.

  Who knows what the future may bring. Maybe through books and information scavenged and unearthed we will learn more of the babbler’s fate. Perhaps we ourselves need to take these early steps very carefully if were not to end up as the babblers did, destined for extinction through our own unpractised practices. One thing is for sure though, even if a great struggle for survival still awaits, then at least the babblers have left us with…the ghost of a chance.

  THE END