,,,~††&&#@ @#&&††~,,,
,~»††&&#@# #@#&&††»~,
,~»††&&#@# #@#&&††»~,
,,,~~†&&&@ @&&&†~~,,,
,~»††&&#@# #@#&&††»~,
,,,,,,,»†& Gray Skies, Swirling With Soot. Stony &†»,,,,,,,
,,,,,,~†&# Ground With No Hints Of Vegetation. #&†~,,,,,,
,,,~»†&&#@ @#&&†»~,,,
,~»†&&#@## Below The Surface Are The Mines, ##@#&&†»~,
,~»††&&#@# Spiraling Down Into The Crust. Small #@#&&††»~,
,,,~»†&&#@ Compared To The Caverns They Eventually @#&&†»~,,,
,~»††&&#@# Reach And Join With. The Temperature Is #@#&&††»~,
,,,,»††&#@ Higher Down Here, And The View Is Not @#&††»,,,,
,~»††&&### As Monochrome: A Green Light Beckons ###&&††»~,
,~»††&&#@# From Below. #@#&&††»~,
,,,,,,»†&& &&†»,,,,,,
,,,,,,»†&@ Long Ago, There Was A Lifeform Here. In @&†»,,,,,,
,~»††&&#@# The Center Of The Planetoid, Something #@#&&††»~,
,~»††&&#@# Dormant, Waiting For A Collision With #@#&&††»~,
,~»††&&#@# Another Body. But No Planet Was #@#&&††»~,
,,,,,,~»†& Reached, And Over Time, The Seedling &†»~,,,,,,
,~»††&&&## Became A Sludge. ##&&&††»~,
,~»††&&#@# #@#&&††»~,
,~~~††††&@ And Elves Came As Miners, And The @&††††~~~,
,~»††&&#@# Sludge Was Bottled. #@#&&††»~,
~»††&&#@## ##@#&&††»~
,~»††&&#@# ######################################## #@#&&††»~,
,~»††&&#@# # # #@#&&††»~,
,~»††&&#@# # #@#@@@&@&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&@&@@@#@# # #@#&&††»~,
,~»†††&&&@ # @ @ # @&&&†††»~,
,~»††&&@## @ @ @##&†&††††††††††††††††††††&†&##@ @ @ ##@&&††»~,
,,,,~†&&&@ # @ @ @ @ # @&&&†~,,,,
~»††&&#@## # @ @ The Cargo Ship Is Filled, @ @ # ##@#&&††»~
,~»††&&#@# & @ # Prepared For Launch, # @ & #@#&&††»~,
,~»††††&&& † # # Ignition Sequence Started # # † &&&††††»~,
,~»††&&#@# † & # Hours Ago. Elves In The # & † #@#&&††»~,
,~»††&&&#@ † † & Passenger Cabin, Not Yet & † † @#&&&††»~,
,,,,~»»†&& » † & Seated. But Something Is & † » &&†»»~,,,,
,~»††&&#@# » » & Wrong. There Is Something & » » #@#&&††»~,
,~»††&&&#@ ~ ~ † Green Around Their Mouths. † ~ ~ @#&&&††»~,
,~»††&&### ~ ~ † The Sludge Has Been Sampled, † ~ ~ ###&&††»~,
,~»††&&#@# ~ ~ » Entertained, And Then » ~ ~ #@#&&††»~,
,,,,»»†††& ~ ~ ~ Finally Binged On. ~ ~ ~ &†††»»,,,,
,~»††&&#@@ , , , , , , @@#&&††»~,
,~»††&#@## , , , The Engines Are Burning Hot, , , , ##@#&††»~,
,~»††&&#@# And The Ship Accelerates #@#&&††»~,
,~~»††††&& Away. The Elves Have &&††††»~~,
,~»††&&&&# Strapped Themselves In, And #&&&&††»~,
,,,,,~†&&& Are Lying Completely Still, &&&†~,,,,,
,~»»»»†&## Like Corpses. ##&†»»»»~,
,,,,~~»†&& &&†»~~,,,,
,,,~»††&## ##&††»~,,,
,~»††&&#@@ @@#&&††»~,
,~»††&&&&@ @&&&&††»~,
,~»††&&#@@ @@#&&††»~,