Pembroke – Narwhal

In a distant future, when nature forbids solid water, and the earth is divided in half, north and south, by a belt of impassable fire.  Night and day last for months at a time.  The natural born humans, still scavenging from the vast and unforgiving sea, tell the legends of their ancestors.  We, the humans of perfect build, have long dismissed the primitive stories of our hard weathered cousins.  But, one such story was hard to ignore…

The biological humans, tell of a peculiar creature, a sea cow with a single spiraled tusk sticking out from the front of its head.  The Narwhal, they call it, that rode seas when the earth was frozen and covered with snow.  Our science doubts they ever existed, for we know the unicorn to be a myth too.  But, the bio humans insist, saying that their ancestors even hunted them in plenty.  They say a single family was kept alive long past when the last snow fell.  But, the relentlessness of time pushed forward, and the care of the flesh humans was bound to falter.  Even in their myths, they say the worst of their kind was the cause of the great fires.

The Narwhal, they say, is not just an animal, but the spirit of the frost itself.  They speak of a prophecy, that out of the vast mysterious ocean will emerge a single Narwhal, on which whose twisted horn will form the first natural ice crystal seen in 10,000 years.  The sighting of this sacred tusk will be the harbinger of a titanic freeze that will cover the earth in frost once again.