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<p>Greetings to everyone, the following story was inspired by the digital art of @xpilar, I invite you to visit his blog. The picture that motivated this story is the following. </p>
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<h2><center>The Pass Between the Mountains</center></h2>
After receiving communication from the inhabitants of the city, where they had left the station, Andromeda's humans had descended in several ships that on this occasion were received by a group of the inhabitants. Those, by human standard, small beings, timidly approached the gigantic visitors.
After several minutes of explanations, the humans made it clear that the only reason that brought them there was curiosity, the desire to know and that there was no intention beyond that. After this, the fearful beings began to speak more openly and satisfy the curiosity of humans.
The Inhabitants of Eur, thus were called the creatures with appearance of insects, that inhabited along all the lands to the south of the snowy mountain range of the continent. They were a remarkably peaceful species, their cities had the characteristics of small states, there was no central government and they maintained continuous commercial exchange and a free flow of population between them.
Apparently, the relatively small population of each city and the abundance of resources, as well as the lack of species competing for their use, formed a society without the need to compete and practically free of aggressiveness.
During its expansion as a civilization, several hundred years ago, even before the existence of motorized vehicles and electric tools, they encountered the natural barrier formed by the snowy mountains of the north of the continent, its species, little resistant to cold, was unable to face the steep peaks and icy temperatures, so that for hundreds of years, it was impossible to avoid the barrier.
However, the insistence of their explorers and the legend, for a long time repeated, of the existence of a pass through which to cross the mountains, led them to get, after many attempts and hundreds of accounts of disappearances, a route between the mountains, a part with moderate temperatures and height by which, for the moment already existing, mechanical vehicles could take them to cross the mountain range.
However, one after the other, the expeditions that undertook the crossing, did not return. There was much talk of strange creatures that inhabited the mountains, of a few travelers that managed to return, but crazy. Until finally, after the creation of the first flying artifacts, they managed to discover the existence of a kind of monstrous biped creatures that lived in constructions on the surface and that, unlike the dwellers of the Earth, had diurnal habits and even when the climate in the regions behind the mountains they inhabited was temperate, they seemed to be adapted to tolerate colder temperatures.
The Eur Inhabitants organized a large-scale expedition, several dozen specialists, engineers, scientists, archaeologists and linguists formed the team, in one of the most modern transport flying machines, which had been created. Funded by the parliaments of ten of the cities closest to the mountains, they set out in search of knowledge and, if possible, friendship with the creatures of the north of the mountain range.
After twenty days, the vehicle, which could only fly at a low altitude, flew back through the mountain pass with only one member of the expedition aboard. The malnourished and altered hiker told stories of strange visions and hallucinations, of how those creatures seemed to get into their minds and make them commit horrible actions, from killing each other, to self-mutilating, they seemed to be having fun with them, like children destroying their toys, or, in this case, making them destroy each other.
Finally, when they seemed to be bored, they made them submerge themselves in the lake, next to where they left the ship, so that they could drown and serve as food for the creatures that lived under the waters and that in turn were the food of those beings.
Fortunately, for the surviving expeditionary, he belonged to a sub species of his own, which could survive under water and by ordering him to enter the lake, after several minutes of being there, the influence of those creatures disappeared, his mind cleared and regained control over himself, remained hidden in the water until it got dark and then went up to the ship and escaped, to return and tell what happened.
After that, the Inhabitants of Eur, decided to block the access to the pass between the mountains, to avoid that those creatures crossed to the south and prohibited any other expedition or overflight to the territory after the peaks.
Now the humans, after knowing the story of that survivor of the expedition, had to decide what to do, regarding the disappearance of their companions who, like the Inhabitants of Eur, once did, had been interned in the territory of those who were called the Mun, which in the language of the inhabitants of Eur, was the equivalent of demons.
<center><em><strong>Text of @amart29 and digital art of @xpilar, November 2019</strong></em></center>
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## <center>Other stories from the series **_Andromeda_**</center>
- [Andrómeda / Andromeda](https://steemit.com/spanish/@amart29/andromeda-andromeda)
- [Mundo Congelado](https://steemit.com/steempress/@amart29/mundocongelado-rycg9iv0le) / [Frozen World](https://steemit.com/steempress/@amart29/frozenworld-tm78lzxibm)
- [Nómadas / Nomads](https://steemit.com/spanish/@amart29/nomadas-nomads)
- [Visitantes](https://steemit.com/steempress/@amart29/visitantes-u3l29wh7i9) / [Visitors](https://steemit.com/steempress/@amart29/visitors-3acbu3hg08)
- [Primer Encuentro / First Meet](https://steemit.com/spanish/@amart29/primer-encuentro-first-meet)
- [Tras Andrómeda / Following Andromeda](https://steemit.com/steempress/@amart29/trasandrmedafollowingandromeda-a3us2arqt9)
- [La Declaración de los Capitanes / The Declaration of the Captains](https://steemit.com/steempress/@amart29/ladeclaracindeloscapitanesthedeclarationofthecaptains-kazq2e0394)
- [Ants](https://steemit.com/esteem/@amart29/andromeda-ants)
- [Knowing the Natives](https://steemit.com/esteem/@amart29/knowing-the-natives)
- The Pass Between the Mountains
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<p>I can only thank @xpilar for allowing me to use his digital art in my publication and for motivating my creation. <strong><em>Thank you very much @xpilar</em></strong></p>
<p>Thank you all for visiting my publication, I hope your comments and I appreciate your support, until next time</p>
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