In a time when the Senetha went to live in the underground world, they had built a city and world that was more beautiful than what was once on the surface. Remember, the Senetha is a mythical people that didn’t exist. They began to build their lives underground because the Orbs had destroyed their homes on the surface. Over many years, they made their underground they created cities that floated on the surface of subterranean lakes and oceans or seemed to float like a ship on the sea. The waters were filled with lilies and lotus plants; the Senetha plant cultivators developed other strange plants. These plants glowed in the dark, not because the underground was dark, it was lighted by the sun, and its energy and light were transferred underground by teleportation, but because there was another way to get sunlight underground. A beam of light that resembled the sun was used for additional energy—some tubes connected everywhere with water arteries that grew like blood vessels or branches of a tree. People did not need to connect pipes; the routes grew to every home to supply the required water. There were many comforts; grass grew, trees attained the tallest stature that branched out to every part of the underground, and the ceiling seemed to be covered with foliage, sunlight, clouds, and a seemingly strange blue sky that logically wasn’t supposed to be there. But the atmosphere was there, a world in a bubble similar to a terrarium. The difference wasn’t contained in the glass but in bubble energy that made it into another world. The underground world of the Senetha was still under construction.
There were many boats and ships in the underground ocean, hundreds of sea plants, seaweed, and water flowers, and in the distance, a city. Bright spheres of light were everywhere. The buildings seemed to gleam with the sunlight; they would glow like water plants at night. Interestingly, the underground sky was sprinkled with stars of the Milky Way; it wasn’t artificial; it was probably a projection from the actual sky above ground. The great trees seemed to hold up the ceiling of the underground world. The roots of those great trees held the underground world together with great structural power.
Besides the natural things and trees that rise to the cave roof, there are the artificial trees; they were like the pillars that branched all over the entire ceiling of the underground world; the branches continued to grow and kept the vault in place. Its roots were like a natural tree and reached deep into the ground, becoming the basis for many structures.
The underground weather was ideal. It had its mind, which means that the weather was unpredictable; it’s a living thing. There was another aspect, the Aura-Laei-I (learned ones that understood almost everything) could control the changes in the weather virtually, but there were machines that did this; there were still rains and storms, and their heat waves despite the Aura-Laei-I and the machines.
It took years for the people to get used to the underground world, but now it was their home.
Robert J. Matsunaga
