The Cheese Gods

Prologue to The Cheese Gods

I was terrified, what if I’d been wrong? What if everyone was right and I wasn’t ready for this? What if what I’d learned, and seen, and thought for so long wasn’t true? I looked to Raven, her green, cybernetic eye blinked, the motors whirred in the darkness. She was as steady as the world’s floor.

“Ralph, you got this,” she said, quietly. 

She was right. It was time, I had to prove what I knew to be true. There was so much more outside the maze; outside our world, and not all of it was bad. It couldn’t be. I was going to challenge the very notions of Cheese World society. I was going to find out who The Cheese Gods really were.

The Sky Tile was heavier than I expected. I struggled against the corner of it. Razer stepped up beside me, his sleek muscles rippling as he joined me in shifting it to the side. Light blazed up through the opening, illuminating our squad of adventurers, six in all.  As I lowered myself into the bright world below, I thought, “This is it, there is no going back for any of us, unless we succeed.”

I was turning my back on everything I’d ever known, staking it all on the idea that our meager existence could not be all there was. As I lowered steadily toward the cold hard floor of the world below, the thread playing out through my paws, I thought of everything we’d left behind, and whatever awaited us beyond the shelter of Cheese World and whispered, “Well, what’s the best that could happen?”

The Cheese God's is an allegory about one rat's journey to awakening. Does the Cheese World Council really decide? Should cheddar really be the measure of a rat? Is there more outside their tiny world? Ralph thinks he knows, and he'll risk everything to find out and awaken the rest of the colony, before it's too late.

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