(Originally Written Tuesday, January 25th, 2005)

(The font was blue but when I tried to turn it back to black I typo'd it into a green colour.  I then left it like that because, well, it suited it.)

What happened to me today.

So I'm walking down the road between Vanier Hall and MacDonald Hall when all of a sudden this piece of construction falls on me. It's just about to hit when I'm suddenly surrounded by this green light. All of a sudden in front of me there appeared a green train lantern. And it spoke to me! It told me this story:

"Three and a half billion years ago a humanoid race from the world of Maltus sought to bring order to the stars. An offshoot of the race became known as the Guardians of the Universe. They sought to remove magic from the universe, and laid siege to the necromantic forces of the cosmos. The war was costly on both sides. The last to fall was the powerful Empire of Tears, finally subdued by the Guardians on the tombworld of Ysmault.

"After the wars, the stray mystical energies were gathered and bound in an orb called the Starheart. Its strength grew over the eons, and eventually it became self-aware and was known as the Green Flame of Life. Though the Guardians were powerful, the force of magic was something that could not be contained forever. In preparation for this day, the Starheart willed a small portion of itself to travel through the universe to fulfill its destiny. As it travelled through space, the piece of the Starheart gathered debris over the centuries until in resembled a meteor.

"Three billion years ago, the Green Lantern Corps was created. Wielding the mighty power ring, the Green Lanterns continued the Guardians' quest for order.

"Two thousand years ago, one of the greatest of the Green Lanterns, Yalan Gur of Space Sector 2814, was nearly killed by a yellow beast. The Guardians removed his ring's yellow impurity, rather than risk losing their best Green Lantern to an arbitrary weakness.

"Yalan Gur was soon corrupted by his power, forcing his will on the people of ancient China. The Guardians had no recourse but to instill a new weakness in Yalan Gur's ring to humble their errant Green Lantern. He was now vulnerable to the wood of the peasants' weapons. The Green Lantern was badly injured by the angry humans.

"So enraged by the humans' attack and by the Guardians’ apparent betrayal, Yalan Gur did not order his ring to repair his wounds. Mortally injured, he plummeted to Earth, the air friction setting him on fire.

"The wandering piece of the Starheart felt Yalan Gur's pain and joined with the Green Lantern. He died during reentry to Earth's atmosphere, his life force absorbed by his power battery. Its casing melted and fused with the piece of the mystical Starheart. The Guardians left the remains on Earth, as a monument and prison to a fallen Green Lantern.

"The remains were found by local villagers and considered a meteor. Chang, a lamp maker that dabbled in sorcery, heard a mental cry from Yalan's tortured spirit. 'Three times shall I flame green!' it spoke, 'First - to bring death!' it promised in rage, 'Second - to bring life!' in its remorse, and 'Third - to bring power!' in his desire to live again.

"Chang had read prophecy regarding the strange green meteor and took a part of it, frightening the people of the village. They had believed Chang and the fallen star were evil. Chang made a lamp of the molten metal, angering the villagers to the point of attacking him. They burned his books and it was believed they had killed him. In turn the villagers were killed by green flame of the lamp. 'First - to bring death!'

"The lamp passed through many hands over the years. It brought good luck and fortune to the good of heart. To the evil, though they might achieve mighty conquests, in the end it brought destruction.

"In the twentieth century, the lamp was brought to America by a trio of adventurers who had tracked the pirates of the China seas. Eventually, it was abandoned just north of Gotham City, outside the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane.

"The lamp was found in a trash can and given to one of the patients, Mr. Billings. He had killed his broker in the aftermath of the stock market crash of 1929. Billings was fond of working with metals, and transformed the Chinese lamp into a train lantern.

"As the lantern flamed with light, Billings was cured of his insanity. Soon, he walked out of Arkham Asylum a sane man. 'Second - to bring life!'

"The Green Lantern ended up being passed from family to family until it ended up on the construction site of the University of Ottawa."

Part of the lantern carved away and became a ring with the symbol of the green lantern on it. I put it on and left before Protection (The University Rent-A-Cops) came. I went immediatly to the Café in LMX. When I got there I noticed something. I could understand the waiters! When the ring was off they were speaking French but with it on it sounded like plain English! 

I went to my locker in a bit of a panic and of course, the lock wouldn't open the first time I put in the combo. But when I looked at it, the lock was suddenly surrounded in green light and then it opened.

I rushed back to the site, grabbed the lantern and jumped on a bus. Concealing it in my schoolbad I managed to bring it home. 

What should I do guys?