Marvelina Chapter 19 Part 2

Before we had phones, or TVs, or radios, or even books, we watched and learned from the animals and insects. And they had, and still do have, many worthwhile skills to teach us…

Joe observed spider webs clinging to bricks, posts, gates, street-signs, rooftops and windows. He was beginning to appreciate their ubiquity. He'd seen spider webs in WilderWood, in Square City, in his lonely quarter inside HQ and even in the Labs. He decided that there were no obstacles he couldn't overcome either.

Read Marvelina on Wattpad:

Marvelina Chapter 18 Part 1

Conquerors, and even the people they bring unwillingly with them, tend to ignore the native people, and their native wisdom. This is as true on Earth as it is on Grandmother.

“We should follow them,” said Katrina. She and Morina nodded to the men and turned to leave. But Merlin interrupted them.
“Want the Only People to you touch not. Want they to you talk not." He paused for a moment, reaching into his pocket. "Got I the Sacred Herb some of. Time is it sharing for. We walking are the web on Grandmother Spider of, going and coming the same is.”

Read Marvelina on Wattpad:

Marvelina Chapter 16 Part 2

Marven was a wise leader on the Lush Planet. He knew who his sworn enemies were. He also knew that to overcome, sometimes you have to make adjustments.

…”Well, around the time that Marven got the news that the boy was born, he harvested his first crop of the Sacred Herb from the seeds that the Only People had given him. He made a tea with it. Just as they had said, his vision was enhanced. He could see the thin little wisps of Grandmother Spider's web stretching across the night sky. He saw that he couldn't move without creating a ripple in her vast and intricate work. He realized that he didn't get to decide who he was connected to, that he couldn't just get rid of the Squares. 'We're already all connected. We must evolve to survive,' is what he said.

Read Marvelina on Wattpad:

Marvelina Chapter 15 Part 3

Just as it is here on Earth, there are underground wonders on the planet called Grandmother by the people who were living there before the Squares came.

There were steamy hot springs contained by stone baths carved with detailed depictions of beetles, spiders and ants. Water was falling from a floral carved opening high up above and splashing into a clear pool. The giant man lit a torch and placed it in a carved granite stand. Thousands of tiny shiny stones were clinging to the natural walls of the cave and sparkling in the torchlight. Scout looked up at a domed ceiling decorated with mosaic tiles. “It’s a spider,” he said. “It’s a giant spider on her web."

Read Marvelina on Wattpad:

Marvelina Chapter 13 Part 2

When we get older, no matter how radical we might have been or might still be, the next generation will always produce someone with unexpected talents. Someone who we might have underestimated.