That future place... like a precipice.

That future place... like a precipice from which they could see the interlocking patterns and design governing all of our confusions.
And while for many years they were content to just watch and see as we tried to rise above these problems, perhaps seeing how close we were to the appointed hour and seeing how close we were to rising above, took it upon themselves the dubious responsibility of leading us thru without revealing the answers.

The beginning came with that fateful meeting deep within the canyon stretch of Mars. The 2 beings, virtually identical, from the layer of their skin, to the patterns of their thoughts, were taken in that meeting and examined. Thru the seed they saw, from their unique vantage point, how far humanity had to go. and the subtle exercise which they had so finely conceived needed to be rethought. The 2 beings were dead. This state was a final stop for these creatures; their minds were structured with an implacable logic that said dead is the end. And in this realization, the notion that they were aliens to these creatures was never more apparent as well as painful.