Cryptid's Crusade

It's simply a matter of time

But she discovers her chosen has another house of worship. Swathed in poppies. Bedecked in dreamscapes. And at its heart, behind the Altar, betwixt the whiskys and the wines is the golden head of her ex brother in law.

A war of, 'Mine!' commenses.

Hob getting ever more curious why whenever him and Dream get it on in his office, Dream either turns his bust of Clio to face the wall, or just spends the whole time smirking at it.

Hob trying to bring a miniature statue of Clio back to his wee flat above the New Inn for his work desk. And continually finding it outside in the parking lot by the recycling bin.

Hob putting a little vase of freshly plucked poppies in his office window. Just to have them wilt within an hour. Every damn time.

Hob putting up a few historical dipictions alongside his personal collection of dream inspired artworks in the pubs dining area. Yet they always seem to meet with some misfortune.

Hobs office radio gets stuck on a perpetual loop of dream related tracks.

Hobs Pub TV in the New Inn refusing to show anything but BBC historical docu-dramas.

Two temples, two 'gods'. There's only one way to settle this...FIGHT!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

I wanna see the unbridled joy on the faces of human schoolchildren who get to meet the first Eridians who come to visit Earth. I wanna see the Eridian ambassadors insisting to the humans that they get a chance to meet their schoolchildren, because they themselves were schoolchildren when a human teacher came to their planet and inspired them to become astronauts.

I wanna see humans getting permission to set up a small embassy somewhere in the Eridani System, possibly even giving a very elderly Grace a chance to see humans again. I wanna see how surprised the humans are that he doesnt want to come home to Earth, but also see them quickly realize just how amazing it is to live, study and teach on an alien world.

I wanna see Humans & Eridians joining forces and creating a massive space program with the goal of inoculating every star in the Milky Way that has been infected with the astrophage. I want to hear them say "the fact that there are three Systems with life this close to each other implies that the whole Galaxy is likely teeming with life- probably even whole civilizations. And none of them deserve to go through what we went through. Screw any ideas about a 'prime directive.' We CAN help, and we WILL help. Lets spend the next 1000 generations saving the galaxy, together."

I wanna see more of this world, generations after these two planets were saved by a pair of alien scientists who became best friends, and who each risked everything to make absolutely certain that the other's world was just as safe as their own. I wanna see these two great peoples coming out of this horrible generational trauma, coming together to celebrate the life that they all get to live with their newly-found cosmic neighbors.