Flock People - Sensational Discovery

(Year 232, Fall) It's late evening and the lab facilities at Dusty Turf in Oasis Springs are pretty quiet. Scientists left their working space - all except Mr. Alexander Goth. He welcomes a few selected journalists to share exciting news.

For some time, scientists have worked hard on capturing as much history as possible involving the long gone Flock People. The green skinned forest people disappeared exactly 100 years ago when their willow forest at Willow Field of Gloomville was cut down by timber industry. This Fall there will be some presentations at the Flock Memorial Day, and Goth and his staff was optimistically gathering information to be presented, thinking their project was nearly completed. Then the totally unexpected happened!

Mr. Alexander Goth works at Landgraab Science Lab, Inc.

- Old myths suggested that the last Flock escaped to hide in a secluded area called Glade. So, we placed wild cameras there. They were known as good at hiding, so nobody knew for sure if he was still around. He would be perhaps 150 years old, which is another myth we wanted to explore - could those forest beings actually live for 200 years, like we hear in the well known children's song? Or was that just a fantasy?

«Flee, flee, from the Glee.

Home to the wood, willow hood.

Was that a Flock, behind a rock?

Was that a knee, up in a tree?

Two hundred candles on a cake,

Flee flee, for Glee's sake!» 

- When we watched all those hours with recordings, we were up for a surprise! One mysterious and rather old specie had been captured on our film!

Landgraab Lab, Inc. specializes on Biology and DNA.

The team returned to Glade and worked weeks on searching for the creature, but there were no signs of it.

- We are now busy trying to gather some DNA. Everyone wants to secure the Flock People if possible, learning about their DNA would help us understand their chances to survive without their old willow forest. If possible, we would create a new habitat for them, or help them reproduce in the Sylvan Glade.

Mr Goth was not allowed to give out all information because some details are yet to be analyzed. Most projects like this will be very secret until completed. But the press was given a chance to study one single frame from the wild cam capture:

The remarkable photo proved that Flock People might still exist in some form! 

The grave stone might indicate that some Flock is dead, but the mourning man was very much alive.

- This looks like a quite mature specie. From old library drawings, we recognize the long nose, but the exact facial structure is harder to see.

A scientifically restructured close up of the specie of a long gone creature!

- Some might think this is a ghost, but we are not so sure. When restructuring the image in our high tech system, we see details that would not be likely with a ghost, such as pulsating veins and damp from the body itself. Besides, he appeared suddenly for just a few seconds, then walked into the forest and never returned to the gravestone.

Landgraab Science Lab has experts on life an death questions, and the gravestone is now being analyzed. It will probably not give any D.N.A., but we might find whether the stone is active or not,

The Flock People project has reached top lines in all media nation wide. Although they were known in a very restricted area, everyone in the kingdom grew up learning to love them and perhaps with a feeling of guilt for those terrible wrongs that our ancestors did to them. It's probably not just Mr. Goth and his team of scientists who want the 100th anniversary Flock Memorial Day to be the best ever!

- Hopefully there will be more news in time for the big day! We are not giving in quite yet!