NOVEL NEXT 118: The Legend Of Sibsil Creed
The Ayela Arcana Sanctuary.
PEYDRAN
Alright Ryst,
I'm back to writing you letters. The letters serve a purpose. They're creating the Legend of Sibsil Creed. Which is a legend, and a song title, and Produced by Peydran's biggest gig ever.
It's the title of the song Ren wrote when you and Nayth disappeared. When he sang it to me, I finally understood what I needed to do.
I figured out the design. You've given me 150 years, but you didn't tell me when to start the 150 years. So, I'm going to use your birth certificate. That gives me 97 years. Ninety-seven years to tell our story. Our story—yours and mine— is where I'm starting. Then it'll be the story of me and Ren.
Then, of course, we gotta add Nayth. So, it's our story, the story of the four of us, all written by Sibsil Creed. When we published Within and Without under a pseudonym, did you know that Sibsil would one day write more books?
It's hilarious. I've laughed so much writing it all down! I cried a lot too. It hurt to read your journals. Of everything we went through. I had to re-live it all from your point of view.
But it's also hysterical. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night laughing in fits when I remember what I've written. And then I imagine the 9 Galaxies reading it in the days to come, and I think I'll never stop laughing.
It's sexy too. Dead sexy. Of course it is, it's Sibsil Creed, after all.
Ren's writing most of the sex scenes. He's genius at it, and he says he's having the time of his life being Sibsil. Thanks for leaving him so much description in your journals. He studied medica texts to learn female anatomy and is a pro at all the types of girl orgasms now.
He's sooooo good at writing you and Nayth, but he says our Starliner Special is better than yours! Ha! And we tried the Shiki Shag; thanks for that.
Ren's loving writing your story. He thinks it's his best work. We're both essentially retired at this point— Gorshen is pretty much running Produced by Peydran with Euri's help. Ren still writes and records music, but mostly his writing storms these days are Sibsil Creed.
We're collecting stories from Shurwinn. From all the people who knew you. The Legend of Sibsil Creed has us publishing teasers and tidbits over the next 97 years to set the stage. Giving the people of the Known Cosmos little tastes. Keeping them interested. Entertaining them now and affecting them deeply so they'll keep looking.
And when the time is finally up, they'll want to know the whole story. And we will give it to them. We'll tell them everything in the timeframe you left us.
And maybe, just maybe, our story will help change the world, Ryst. The way you always hoped. Maybe we will inspire people. Maybe they will feel and heal on the inside. Like I did when I read Within and Without the first time.
We're gonna use graphics, and animations, and parodies, of course. How can we tell the story without audiovisual? With words alone? That'll never work.
Eclipse Chasers of Yester Rear and Eclipse Chasers Up the Rear are some of what we plan to do. They'll be awesome animated versions of me and Ren on starliners. We're awesome on starliners. We're the Up the Rear couple. You and Nayth on starliners are really hot too. You're the Yester Rear couple.
It's gonna be kinda cartoon porn, but also sorta instructional erotica romance— really well done. We just gotta find the time to write it. Don't you think that's a great way to get people interested in our story?
There's gonna be something for everyone with this project. Family-friendly animations of a girl who discovers Chaludra in a monastery library and winds up having cool mystical experiences— Nala's Tales From The Monastery.
There's a teen-friendly swoon-worthy drama called Dream With Me Now about a couple who meet in their dreams and eventually find each other in real life. It'll be so romantic and sappy.
There's an action-adventure called The Avenging Augment where the main character is an augmented programmer turned secret assassin who takes out bad guys all over the 9 Galaxies. Great, eh?
So, I've got the strategy now. The Legend of Sibsil Creed is born. Do you like it?
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When the time is finally up, will anyone actually believe it's all true?
Ryst,
My main focus right now is the Legend of Sibsil Creed. I told Borden he had to take the back burner until I've done your story. He was open to that. I never committed to doing his project anyway. I gave him most of Nayth's money except what we need to create the Legend of Sibsil Creed. I hope you're okay with that. I figured if that bothered you, you would've done something else with the money.
We're learning English for the next phase of the Legend because so much of what I'm doing is geared towards Earth. That's my arc: how do I get people interested in our story? Tempt them with the truth of the Shurwinn. And who'd be more interested in the truth of the misfits who left Earth than actual Earthens? We're their cousins after all.
I'm getting so good at cussing in English. English has great cuss words. Like 'fuck." I love the word "fuck." I'm adding it to the sex scenes. Do you think it's funny?
So, I'm learning English and starting a publishing company that's putting out all of these stories. It's not coming from Produced by Peydran. It's coming from a new corporation that's irreverent and loud called the Known Cosmos Earth Press. It's already catching on, and not just on Earth.
The animations will help create interest. We've started working on ideas for our animated series Eclipse Chasers Up The Rear. I'm not sure how much people will pick up on and connect the dots between the little snippets we put on stream and the animations, but as long as people are viewing, we're catching them in the net.
We're hoping to get graphic novels too. They'll basically be the animations but in printed form and sometimes with more story fleshed out. I just gotta keep writing the actual books so we have content. It's so much work writing it all, Ryst!
We're going on a trip next year. Borden and Nika are coming to pick us up so we can visit Five Spheres. I'm finally ready to begin thinking about that project and how it fits in to the Legend of Sibsil Creed. I don't have everything figured out yet, so if you've got any ideas, feel free to sing in Ren's dreams!
Ryst,
Did you see the Ayela Arcana Sanctuary go up today? I don't know how you could've missed that. Borden is— holy fuck balls, I have no words for what that man is. He grew the Sanctuary right out of the ground! A whole building. Behind your casita.
It's gorgeous! Gorgeous! I had to put all kinds of tech into it to seal it for the next 77 years. The doors will open in 2860, which is 150 years from your birthday. When the doors to the sanctuary open, people will be able to go into the first chamber.
Inside the first chamber is all the published material from the Legend of Sibsil Creed. The graphic novels and animations. All the tidbits we've published and the full-length books Known Cosmos Book 1 and 2. There might be more books, eventually, but for now, we've got two.
The next chamber is all of the primary source documents: your journals, Nayth's Untold Stories, Ren's song lyrics, the Stories of Shurwinn, and my Secret Files.
The third chamber is the big reveal. In the very center is a plinth displaying your wooden box with the ankh on it and your pretty hand-bound copy of Within and Without.
Along with that reveal will be all of my letters to you. So people will finally understand who Sibsil Creed really was.
Ryst,
Ren and I are grandpas now! We have the most beautiful granddaughter. Did you see her? Aurora Grace. Dwinlyn and Ashten are so happy. Euri and his band of misfits adore her too, though we don't see them much.
I keep dancing as Ren said we should all those years ago. I'm no Florian, but we still have a good time. We're determined to not turn into stodgy old men. So, we keep dancing.
The Legend of Sibsil Creed is in full swing. It's a relief to have all that writing behind us and feel like we can breathe again.
Ryst,
Borden and Nika are in full speed ahead with the colonization of Five Spheres. Borden grew most of the buildings straight out of the ground. Ren and I went back to visit, but we have no plans to leave Shurwinn and the Ayela Arcana Sanctuary. This feels like the best place to be to stay close to you and Nayth.
But twenty-five million Shurwinn citizens are migrating in the first wave to Five Spheres. Can you believe it? There's that many of us that want to leave the desert and try something new! Over the last couple of decades Nika has met more and more Talented and slowly built up groups of people who want to join them. Amazing, isn't it?
I'm seeing more and more how all of this is the tangle. Me writing our story. The story of Ryst and Peydran. The story of Ryst and Nayth. The story of Peydran and Ren. All these supernatural people who did all this outrageous mystical stuff.
It doesn't seem true. But if there are Talented people scattered around the 9 Galaxies hiding who they are, then I hope they'll find our graphics and animations and eventually find their way to Five Spheres.
Ren and I can inspire them and teach them through stories. Borden and Nika can offer them a home.
I bet you're happy with how the tangle turned out.
Ryst,
This will be the last letter that they'll find in the Ayela Arcana Sanctuary. It explains everything.
For those who've had a hard time deciphering the clues, I'll spell it all out for you:
Sibsil Creed was originally Ryst Nova, author of the book Within and Without: A Tindin Journey With Erotica.
Then Sibsil got a facelift when Ryst and her husband Nayth disappeared and left me the job of publishing the truth of what happened to them. So, I, Peydran Madrano, became Sibsil Creed and started the Known Cosmos Earth Press to publish our stories.
The true story of Ryst and Nayth Nova-Carmidee. The true story of Peydran and Ren Crieve-Madrano. The true story of the four of us and the larger story of the Shurwinn. And the even larger story of the truth of the 9 Galaxies. There are more stories being told, and Sibsil will live on for a very long time.
No one can know the truth of Ryst Nova-Carmidee and not understand that her story is the true story of what's wrong with the 9 Galaxies and why we can't get past the barrier that keeps us from the rest of the Cosmos.
That we'll never get out of the 9 Galaxies with technology.
The solution is mystical, just like Ryst always said.
I know what happened to you now, Ryst. Ren sang it to me in his last days. He saw you when he was on the threshold between life and death, and you told him everything. He sang me a song so beautiful that I wept.
I recorded it all so I'd have it for the Ayela Arcana Sanctuary. But mostly, it is recorded in my heart. For it was the last song my love sang.
Ren sang for me as he died, and I finally knew the truth of what happened to you. But Ren isn't gone, is he? His final stanza was "Your Song" which he wrote and sang for me our first night together.
He promised to stay with me, and he did. He's still on the breeze, in the hum of bees, and the morning bird song. Ren is a song. He's my song, and he is still with me and our family.
Give him a hug when you see him, and tell him I'll be home soon.
For I finally understand where you are, Ryst. I'm in the Known Cosmos, and you are in the Unknown Cosmos.
I'll see you when I get there.