,,,~††&@ @#&&††~,,,
,~»††&@# #@#&&††»~,
,~»††&@# #@#&&††»~,
,,,~~†&&&@ @&&&†~~,,,
,~»††&@# #@#&&††»~,
,,,,,,,»†& 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. ##&†»»»»~,
,,,,~~»†&& &&†»~~,,,,
,,,~»††# ##&††»~,,,
,~»††&@@ @@#&&††»~,
,~»††&&&&@ @&&&&††»~,
,~»††&@@ @@#&&††»~,