The Secrets of Sake: Part 4, SANDAN-JIKOMI
Part 4 SANDAN-JIKOMI (Part 1 is HERE ) Their village demolished, Sakamai - the people of Tanbo - were tortured and twisted in strange ways, physically combined with tiny hive-minded creatures called Koji. As the two became one, these new "Koji-Mai" learned from the Koji's memories that their towering and unstoppable alien captors were "The Creators" - an alpha race who designed and cultivated all they had ever experienced, just for this. But these answers only begat more questions: What would happen next? To what end was any of this happening at all? When would it be over? Would the Koji-Mai ever see the Sakamai they were taken from in their last steel prison? Even if they did, would their families even recognize them after yet another transformation? As usual, the Koji provided soothing thoughts of complacency: "All is a cycle The Creators have planned for. We are not the first or even the thousandth, and we will not be the last. W