#vug

looking for the prize, seeing

the hidden revealed,

sometimes simply amazed, awed,

other times finding it bland.

.

Millions of years ago

two of them crashed

two giants leaning into

each other, ripping

apart each other, throwing

each other into the sky,

~

millions of years ago they

started dancing and when

the song came to an end

the mountains they formed,

the caverns they built

rested and

~

now the green of grassy

lakes and forrests, the blue

that bleeds from the skies

towards the sea, are shining

beneath the sun and all the vugs

are filled with blooming violas

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Put in place, a last minute expedition set for a little known spot on the map. Kept top secret, we knew not where or why we were traveling. Told only in hushed whisper's they may have found what we need...

Before we knew it we were on the plane. A research team of four including myself were the only one's chosen out of hundreds of possible candidates. Why you may ask, I'm not sure really my background is in rare crystals; don't really know how much help I'd be.

After some time we land. It's dark as we make our way to a small camp in the middle of nowhere. Only by the light of the moon above as well as flashlight's being shined in our faces are we told where to go and what we would be doing there.

It seems my team and I have been selected to harvest the rare "Vug" menial from a nearby cavernous crevasse. I stare in disbelief, Vug has been thought to be no more. Mined to depletion long ago, how can this even be true.

If this was true it's thought among most of the scientific community that it can be a cure for all current illness as well as anything in the future. Now it all makes sense why the company I work for has sent us here.

Much to our anticipation, we left for the cavern that same night. We were taken to a shaft, a tunnel housed between two towering leaning rock faces. Once inside, light's shined like mid-devil torches lead the way. As we eventually crawled our way into the belly of the rock beast, we found what we were looking for...

The walls lined with prism crystals, each one shinning as brilliant as any color palette found within nature. The team and myself stare in awe at this sight, this find of a once in a lifetime nature. All is still and quiet, until it wasn't.

With a jolt the cavern begins to collapse. Shards of razor crystals fall from the upper portions of the cave. Falling like dagger's created by Zeus's lightning, Spartans would call this a different type of beautiful death. Not in battle against our current biological enemy, but our natural one. To die this way would certainly qualify as a great adventure.

Once the dust settled, I wake, pinned to a glass covered wall. I feel no pain, for I have been left unharmed. The same can't be said for my team. Impaled like vampires killed at the hands of crystal stake's, they all lay scattered around me.

Eye's wide, mouth's open, frozen in moments of beautiful pain mixed with beautiful fear. The opening is blocked now. I'm the only one left, the only one able to tell the tale of what happened here. Not totally sure why the collapse occurred, yet I did notice that one of my team members hand's have been left firmly upon a crystal judging out of the rock face. Was he trying to take one or is this due to how his remains now lay...?

I don't know how long it's been now, I've lost track of time. Minutes, days, hours my breath slows, my pulse is irregular. Looking for a cure to end all illness has lead to my fate. Should have been more prepared, should have been more aware of our surroundings. For anyone who finds this, please take this message to heart...

Leave the Vug alone, it doesn't want you here. This is what it's telling me as it's composition slowly seeps into my mind. The would is our creation at this time, it will not help us fix what it feels we have done as we suffer the consequences. The Vug will not cure us, it will only help in making us sicker. Leave this place if you know what's good for you or suffer the same fate as us...

image: Lehigh Black Mineral Page