South Island of New Zealand Kaherekoau Mountains                                                                                                  45° 52' 49" South                                                                                                167° 38'16" East Present day                            &n

                                                                                It was like I was left to burn in a boiler full of fire. It was like steam was rising on my face and I was getting drier and drier. Two burning stoves in my eyes and firewood on my cheeks burned me like I'd gone to hell. My hands were burning like they were on fire on the hot sand. Every time I turned my head, the stoves that were burning in my eyes were moving. My back was sweating and clinging to my clothes like I was in hot water on a toasted stone. The heat was rising in me like a

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"Ed! Ed... Get up, Xwa's here."                                                                                             When I opened my eyes and slowly got up, Nina stood next to me, staring at Xwa like the others. That's when I realized how big Xwa actually was. He was about three and half meters tall and had a big head. His ears were almost bigger than my hands. Who knew what frequencies he had hearing with those ears? His eyes, almost the size of baseballs, were more reminiscent of brown. His hair was straight, blac

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