The Hogun are dead
It is done. It is over. The Hogun are dead.
It was probably Arpia’s greatest battle, and many perished, on land and in space. Yet, in the end, against all odds (approximately), Arpia prevailed.
You don’t know the Hogun?
They were about one metre in height, floating some fifty centimetres above ground. The beings seemed to be made of a substance similar to goo and jelly. Fezzan’s first impression of their shape was that they were monsters.
One large, oval eye, of different tones of colour, was the main component of what he thought of as their “head”. Little tubes and extensions sprouted out around it, five in total. One tube on each side seemed to contain an organ, judging by the almost spherical form of their extremities. The brain, possibly. Maybe the stomach. The others had to be orifices of some kind, as they ended with holes.
Floating higher up in the air, linked to the “head” only by a small vertical tube of their substance, there were things similar to buffalo horns, though the horns themselves moved around. Fezzan guessed they were limbs.
The lowest part of the body was also linked to the “head” by a little tube, a neck probably. It looked a little like a flame turned upside down, distorted by a gust of air. In the middle of it, a mouth with razor-sharp teeth, in the shape of a drop of water, flipped vertically.
Floating ghosts, in a way. At least, Arpia won’t have to fear them any more. They become another story to tell kids:
“Watch out, Billy, the Hogun will get you if you don’t obey!”
“Let’s play Arpians and Hogun.”
And no one will ever wonder whether it was the right thing to do. No one will question the version of the facts presented by Arpia. After all, Arpia saved humanity.
Or did it?