“To the students of Canderras, this is my message. I’ll never forget the day me and my friends were talking about the day of the alien invasion. It was the scariest moment I’ve ever experienced. I was out on top of a mesa, looking for rocks. Well, I was looking for one rock, a special one, a slick ruby red arrow shaped rock. It’s really cool. You should see it. It’s in my room now. Imagine looking up at the sky and it instantly turns neon green. There is this eerie silence, but you can hear this whistling like it’s in your head, like you can’t actually hear it. But it’s there, somewhere. Imagine seeing alien ships covering the sky. They just wait there. You have no idea who they are, what they are, or what they want. You have no idea what they’re capable of, or what they’re about to do…”
“Remember what I said in the beginning? Do you? It wasn’t that long ago. I mean, if you can’t remember then you must have a mind that wanders a lot, like maybe you space out, just staring out at a field wondering how many rocks might be hidden. You’d be surprised how many rocks you can find deep in the grass or in the flowers, well, not in the flowers, but kind of hidden by the flowers, you know? Oh yeah, so do you remember? I didn’t say I’ll never forget the day of the invasion, although I won’t forget that day either, (and we won’t let them forget what they’ve done, we’ll play the song louder and louder until they can’t forget) it’s the day my friends were talking about it. We asked a critical question, a question that changed everything. Can you figure out what that was? You see, we discovered something, a secret, a secret about them…”
“I live in the Kingdom of Daymardon, City of Heyvas Cadamar. Our city is built around a bunch of small flat top peaks with a river winding through. We have several really large, wide complexes that curve outward in both directions. Inside them is our city. Everything is really open. We don’t have many walls. It’s all coloured dark orange. We have really lush gardens and dark blue pools on the tops of the peaks, with waterfalls going down the sides. Instead of walls, we have tons of stringed lights that glow dark orange. We love open spaces, because we love dance. We dance all the time in fact, mostly in secret though, because the aliens hate it, and now you can be punished for it…”
“Music is what we really care about. Dancing is what we live for. We have come up with all kinds of dances-maybe you can figure out what they look like by the names, here they are-The Galaxy Dance, The Falling Stars Dance, The Great Orange Pumpkin Flying Coat Dance, The Happy Crazy Flat Hat Ghost Dance, The Big Fat Cat Dance, and The Flying Horse Chess Player Dance. You think you can do any of them? You have to be creative and fast with your feet, that’s all. We didn’t plan any of them. We don’t plan at all. We hate plans. We start dancing when we feel the music, when we feel the energy and we play off each other, we respond to how we all dance in our own ways. But dancing isn’t just about being in the music, it’s about flying. You get to be free, and see everything from high above, because when you dance the way you want, the way you feel, everything comes alive…“
“The aliens overwhelmed us with their lights, their ships blazing across the sky, and their fires raining down to show how easily they could destroy us. That’s how they took power over all our kingdoms, over all our schools. They took so much from us. They want so much from us. They want us to be perfect students and punish us if we aren’t. But that leads to the big question. Do you know what it is yet? Have you figured it out? It was when we were dancing one day in school. One kid slid down the railing on the staircase and started dancing. Soon, we all were dancing. The aliens just watched, standing still, as usual. That’s when we figured it out…”
“I have clues for you, to help you in your mission, and they will be written at the end of my report. Study them close to see the way. The aliens don’t dance. In fact, they don’t even use the word. You see, they don’t call us dancers. They call us troublemakers. But we don’t care, because we know how awesome our dancing is, and they can’t really stop us. You see, we realized something really intriguing, and also revealing. This is the question we raised: If they are so superior, so much more powerful, and want all the power over our kingdoms and schools, then why didn’t they just destroy us completely?“
The climber must be determined to see
By flying to find your way is the key
Sometimes dance your way to be free
