Talk:Doorway to Darkness/@comment-24040907-20150117002019/@comment-4893169-20150119032235

Thank you. I have a sequel to this story in the Writer's Workshop>http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:416018#7

There's lots more characters as well as interaction.

The character Kes first came about in a Philosophy/Religion college class during a Buddhist meditation. Basically, I was bored and just out of the blue, sketched this character's profile on the back of a notebook.

Her full name is Kes Lem Allyntahl. My dad actually came up with the name "Gerdin" (the G is pronounced with a J- sound, like in Germany) a white-maned humanoid being with cat-like eyes and retractable claws. Technically, Gerdins are primates, having descended from a carnivore closely resembling that of a lemur. Like most Gerdin, she about four feet tall, which is pretty small, although she's still in an adolescent stage. She could move with speed and grace most humans find nearly impossible to imitate.

Kes's world is an alternate earth where humans had largely gone extinct. This massive extinction was caused by a bio-engineered plague known as the "Red Death." (Sound familiar, doesn't it. It's from "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe. The misanthropic mad scientist who first concocted this ebola-type virus had read a lot of Poe) It killed off the normal humans, leaving only mutants and gentically-engineered creatures or chimera. It's not known whether the Gerdins are a product of natural or artificial evolution. Gerdins like to think they had evolved naturally. They get highly insulted if told otherwise. Gerdins also share this planet with an alien species, popularly known as fairies as well mutated human species known as the Nye-Am. These "colonists" come from a parallel world overpopulated by ordinary humans ( that being our world). They emigrated to the Gerdin world to escape habitat loss and pollution.

The technology is high tech with some planetary colonization.