No response came from the being behind the gem.
The kneeling figure kept still, awaiting a reaction from the regrettable report he brought regarding the Insight’s demise.
“Commence the final formation of the invasion armada. Advance the Recalore guards through the Trandeshion construct and prepare the gateway to the galaxy known as the Milky Way.”
The kneeling figured bowed down once more. “Forever the Gashnee.”
The Annals continue…
O Fortuna
"O Fortuna" is a medieval Latin Goliardic poem written early in the 13th century, part of the collection known as the Carmina Burana. It is a complaint about Fortuna, the inexorable fate that rules both gods and men in Roman and Greek mythology-Wikipedia
O Fortuna
velut luna
statu variabilis,
semper crescis
aut decrescis;
vita detestabilis
nunc obdurat
et tunc curat
ludo mentis aciem,
egestatem,
potestatem
dissolvit ut glaciem.
Sors immanis
et inanis,
rota tu volubilis,
status malus,
vana salus
semper dissolubilis,
obumbrata
et velata
michi quoque niteris;
nunc per ludum
dorsum nudum
fero tui sceleris.
*Sors salutis
et virtutis
michi nunc contraria,
est affectus
et defectus
semper in angaria.
Hac in hora
sine mora
corde pulsum tangite;
quod per sortem
sternit fortem,
mecum omnes plangite!
O Fortune,
like the moon
you are changeable,
ever waxing
and waning;
hateful life
first oppresses
and then soothes
as fancy takes it;
poverty
and power
it melts them like ice.
Fate – monstrous
and empty,
you whirling wheel,
you are malevolent,
well-being is vain
and always fades to nothing,
shadowed
and veiled
you plague me too;
now through the game
I bring my bare back
to your villainy.
Fate is against me
in health
and virtue,
driven on
and weighted down,
always enslaved.
So at this hour
without delay
pluck the vibrating strings;
since Fate
strikes down the strong man,
everyone weep with me!
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Annals of the Keepers
Created by Christiaan C. Hile & Benjamin J. Halkett
Copyright © 1995-2018 Christiaan C. Hile & Benjamin J. Halkett
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Edited by: Christopher Jackson
Cover Art: Jeff Jumper
First Edition: 2018
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