Escape Odd, episode 638. Flashback Friday.

Ula.

By Daniel Schwabower. I'm goingistair. Welcome to this month's flashback Friday. Every month I pull a story

from the Escapeod Archives and take a look at it with fresh eyes and always find something surprising.

This episode, Ula, originally appeared on December 7th, 2006. It was hosted

by Steve Eelie and read by Jared Axelrod and J. R. Blackwell. All three are relentlessly creative, fiercely self-aware artists and they are some of my

favorite people. The author, Daniel Schfar Bauer, has won countless awards including the Grant

K Goodman and the Ben Franklin. He's the author of books such

as Curse of the Seer and Run to the Hunted. So get ready because it's story time.

Ula by Daniel Schwabauer.

7022.

Ula. The moment has nearly come. We'll begin killing the Missoon.

I wish I could see you again before then, or at least have the soft pleasure of your voice.

But I must be content with the pulse of your mind. have the

thought tablet already 500 rotations past.

Your thoughts do comfort me,

and I hope that these thoughts of mine comfort you as well.

It is right for the council to have struck our names from the rock.

We who go to kill can have no honor even among ourselves. I confess I did not really believe this when we left,

for it has been an uncalculable time since our race last succumbed to the bloodlust,

and my only taste of it has been the shifting images of the crew slept as I slept.

But now I believe the striking of our names from the Ropi's wisdom because I have been thinking

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