"Star Keys" (The Word & the Way)
Knights ride.
Moondrifter
(Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman)
By Mark Mitchell
(Orchestration: cymbals, drums rolling, and orchestral music opening)
(First portion sung in English)
“Ahhhhyyaaaaaaaaaa!
“Ahhhhyyaaaaaaaaaa!
Moondrifter comes this way
Sun-shifter sets his day
Stars of the night, their rays
Shine bright
(Drum rolls, cymbals, instrumentation)
Far beyond our dreams
Lies a world of wonder
Stars of all the heavens
Shining high above
“Ahhhhyyaaaaaaaaaa!
“Ahhhhyyaaaaaaaaaa!
(Drum rolls, cymbals, instrumentation)
Look to find a stranger
Helping those in danger
Powers of all the heavens
Helping those we love
(Instrumentation & choir)
Away (away, away…girls come in), come sail with me (with me, with me…girls sing)
Away (away, away…girls come in) a world to be (to be, to be…girls come in)
Away (away, away) beyond the stars
Up in the heavens
(Instrumentation & choir)
(Second portion sung in Italian/Latin/Spanish)
Moondrifter comes this way
Sun-shifter sets his day
Moons of all the world
Turn ‘round
(Drum rolls, cymbals, instrumentation)
Far beyond our dreams
Lie amazing wonders
Stars of all the heavens
Sing to me your love
Look to find a stranger
Helping those in danger
Powers of all the heavens
Helping those we love
“Ahhhhyyaaaaaaaaaa!
“Ahhhhyyaaaaaaaaaa!
(Drum rolls, cymbals, instrumentation, choir)
Away (away, away…girls come in), come sail with me (with me, with me…girls sing)
Away (away, away…girls come in) a world to be (to be, to be…girls sing)
Away (away, away) beyond the stars
Up in the heavens
(Instrumentation)
“Kaphoom!”
Emptiness exits. Lost in time, two parallel branes touch at the direction of the Force. Branes meet and cosmology begins. The universe expands. Dark matter, dark energy, are sent streaming from the core of a mass of stellar gas. Matter and antimatter react to power the development of galaxies, stars, worlds, and heavenly bodies some billions of years old and some only newly, formed.
A force has breathed a breath.
There is a book with knowledge true
That tells of all things past
All things to come, the present here
Of things that are to last
Its words stem from but one great source
Who dusted it with truth
To all great men who seek the Word
To lead, then add a tooth
Of Gort, three here, FaSloth four there
Some hair and then beware
Yxcoodle, zrixen, eye of mixen
Blenfinpleny earth then dare
Let Naite, slime mold, fungal root
Then give to it a birth
Let all men know of seeds of cosmos
Sewn in gases, earths
The Word, the Way, I look to find
Where is the Magic Book?
Your vapors show to me the source
From where a brother sook—the book: The Word and the Way
Show me the Book. Where is the Way?
Known by few, there are secrets to the Order of the Octagon: language is both a barrier and a common denominator.
Space, space, space, and…
“Kawowphoom!” A titanic explosion rocks the heavens.
Multicolored gases spew in all directions outside the Order.
A monumental supernova explodes. Hydrogen and helium gas has long ago been extended, used up. The massive star that creates chaos implodes. Iron, light and heavy elements once forming a star have been spent. Now, a sun has died.
Just inside the Talakanon Galaxy, the HH321 Tri Onan 8 solar system has been barely spared. Technetia and Techne people of Tri Onan 8-e, of Ghint’e command, see light flash brilliantly in the sky. Quickly, yet slowly, the radiating energy of the nova dissipates, inversely diminishing at the square of the distance from implosion.
The outburst is an example of chaos in the middle of the calming vacuum known as space. The atmosphere supporting Techne life, albeit dismal, has not been blown away. Technitians will see this nova for years to come. One of the Techne allies, a carbon-based life form with high intelligence, flies on a mission for all Ghint’e. He pilots his screaming vessel some distance across the void of the Octagon.
General Tiekus Tauk of Carmadon flies his Spider-ship, his stellar cruiser. He comes to find and help one, who knows much—the Master.
“Phwoom!” The stellar cruiser whisks through space, closer to its intended target.
Tauk has heard a brother call. General Tiekus Tauk learned from the source that has borne many, trouble. Trouble is the Master. He, is the Ze.
The Dark One, Ze, who lay in suspended animation upon Gameon has signaled help from those he claims his own kind, the Ghint’e, or, the Spider Alliance. Years ago, he learned a secret: a key to unavowed truths of the Order of the Octagon.
Now, “We shall find it soon enough,” Tauk says calmly to his first lieutenant. “Are we locked in?”
“It will not be long, commander,” Dyon Nubak answers. “Keo Coy is at the bridge. She has coordinates, told, to us.”
“Very good,” Tauk says. Tight-lipped, he nods.
Tauk stands in the engineering room of his star-ship with Nobo 3 and Nobo 4 working to ensure the ship is in good order. Tauk is the strong-willed leader of the Ghint’e.
“Borzoyle Ze will be free in due time, the Book shall be in our possession, and we will work to learn its secrets and those of the Order of the Octagon. We labor against the Thema’s, the Order. I shall call a meeting of our council once we rest the text from its location and make our way to Carmadon. Yabba Yea, Tuft, Na Tooky Eh, Otbot, and generals will be glad to know we have had success. Make, preparations. We hold a gathering to call the Ghint’e together.”
