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Shining Emerald Island
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It doesn't seem very suspicious to me. But even if it is, I don't mind. I have to get master Muschio in to see the Matriarch. We've come all this way, he would be very angry with me if we had to turn back because I couldn't pass a test. So I'm more than willing to do what it will take.
They lead me to a small room off at the end of one of the nice halls, with a cozy looking bed and dark, rich red sheets.
One of them speaks up.
>"This test is a thousand-year tradition in our society. And since you and your Leader seem like you really mean well, I'll tell you the story behind this tradition.
>A long time ago, during the age of fire, lived the first two exoskeletons, the Matriarch and the Patriarch. The two warred endlessly over the vulcanos about who was the strongest. Yet after thousands of years the two began to forget why they were fighting. As the vulcanos died out, so did their battle. Finally, the two settled their differences and became friends. With the Patriarch and the Matriarch united, they could perform the union that would create all of civilization. They did so. But then a vulcano came to live again, and the Patriarch remembered why they fought. He grabbed a stone to strike down on the Matriarch, who, swollen with eggs, was unable to defend herself. But when he loomed over her, she pointed to the life that they had both created inside of her. The Patriarch could no longer attack, for to strike her, he would be striking himself.
>Obviously our genes are not compatible enough to create offspring, but after thousands of years of tradition the gesture is what remains the most important."
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