The Glade

Sometimes while writing Rome's Revolution I had a very clear picture of a vista or environment but I struggled to describe it because it wasn't any place where I had ever been. I mean I've never been to the Tau Ceti system so how could I really, truly tell you what places look like?

Well, a funny thing happened which I'll explain shortly. In yesterday's post, I described a scene for you wherein Rei comes across a group of Deucadons for the first time who were camped out in a glade. I described it as:

With his eyes closed, Rei was easily able to follow him within the cracks until he emerged into a glade, a grassy clearing that was perhaps 25 meters across, surrounded by 20 meter walls of stone.

Not much to go on, huh? Well, here's the funny thing. Just the other day, I was watching a movie called The Maze Runner which is a story about a boy named Thomas who woke up in the middle of glade. He didn't know why he was there or what to do at first but eventually he figured it out. Here is a picture of it:



While this is not exactly what I was trying to describe and it is tremendously bigger than what I had thought of, I found it interesting that the director (Wes Ball) had the same vision as me. But, hey, I thought of it first!

The Deucadons camped out there because they needed to hide from the prying eyes of the Vuduri. The glade provided them with protection from all four corners. There was no entry other than the one crack (similar to the portal in the movie seen on the right) and they hid their heater which looked like a glowing box.