Das Libellenschwert

The dawn of a new age had come when the foreign ships
appeared in the skies of his world for the first time. They
were beautiful. Beautiful and threatening like giant insects,
dazzling in green and black and golden colour with that
purple shimmer, covering every inch of their surface. They
were radiant with an air of mischief.

For many of his kind, the way led on board of these ships.
They were bookmen, scientists, ambassadors; mighty
warriors even – but none of them returned. The secret of
the Skyships remained a mystery.

Now, he found himself awake in the gloomy stomach of the
gigantic entity. Beams of light penetrated through tiny
holes far above him into the huge cavern on whose metal
ribs he was sitting. What did happen? How did he come
here? A mist was putting the labyrinth that once resembled
his memories into a blur. However, slowly, he found a path
that helped him recall the tide of events that brought him
into his current situation.

He had come to accomplish a mission.

Jens Schubert was born in the Erzgebirge in 1983 and
studied Visual Arts and Graphic Reproduction at the
Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig where he completed the
master class of Prof. Annette Schröter in 2011. Jens
Schubert lives and works in Leipzig.