Earth. 3rd Planet from the star, Sol,

Africa, 21st Century.

Current day

"That's correct Mrs. Hanover...Yes, the photos are real, and this I assure you. Right...Yes...Okay, You are very welcome. No, we have not sent any pictures to anyone else...I will talk to you later. Goodbye." Julius hung up the satellite phone and walked back into the temple. He climbed down the fiberglass ladder into the hole carved out of the temple's clay floor. Julius noticed Misty was standing in the hole leaning up against its hard dirt wall in silence. She held a hand to her pretty face in contemplation. He walked over to her. The archaeologists examined the heavy cover of the massive round stone box grave. It lay pushed to the side providing a full view of the earth-shattering details lying in state within. No one in the room could understand what it was they saw, much less Julius.

"Who was she? How did she get in there? How is that grass so green?" Could be heard echoing softly through the room.

Misty sidled up to Julius. They embraced. "She is so beautiful..."

"Misty, we found it...erm, her! You brilliant, wonderful woman!" Julius passionately kissed the cowboy boot adorned American girl on the lips. "The thought that god and man both share the same DNA is possibly lying right here within arm's length. This has to be why Homo sapiens miraculously appeared. I know, I know, we will have to get her thoroughly tested to be sure. But, whoever she is Misty, she has to be what our ancestors would call a god."

Misty released the German archaeologist and stepped up to the edge of the stony tomb. "Julius, may I? The Geiger counter detected no radiation. Also, none of the other tests we ran discovered anything hazardous, either."

"We have to be careful, Misty. We have to take our time. This discovery is going to change the world, forever. We have a massive responsibility here to make sure we get everything recorded and documented as untainted as possible. No fuck ups."

Misty, squinted at Julius. "I'm not stupid, Julie. I just want to be the first person to run my hand over this impossibly green 160,000 year old grass that might even be from the Garden of Eden itself."

Julius smiled. "I get it and you are right. You deserve this as much as I do. Without you, I would not have even thought about doing what we have done. Just please be careful. We don't know what we are dealing with yet."

"I know." Misty slowly dipped her hand into the tomb.

Everyone around the edge of the dig held their collective breath. They realized they were watching history unfold.

Misty reached over the stone barrier. Almost there..."Julius!" she exclaimed, snapping her hand back. "There is strange energy radiating off everything in here."

Julius reached over and pulled his hand back as well. "You can feel it in your skin. It's like...the sensation you get when you touch someone you love. Wow!" he said as he looked at the smiling Misty. "I can't explain it." He lowered his fingers back in to experience the sensation once more.

Misty felt it through her entire body, all the way down. The feeling of pure love, probably the best way to describe it and she found it was mildly erotic. She could almost feel Julius' energy reaching out and touching her from across the dig. "That's some strange kind of energy. It's as if all of the love in the universe was focused right here," she noted. Misty realized she was going to have to take out her sudden frustrations on Julius later. She could tell that from the way he was staring at her, he felt the same. He looked reluctant to remove his hand as he swished it slightly above the grass and stared longingly back at her.

The crowd around the tomb leaned in, their curiosity growing with each new detail. The girls in the crowd giggled watching the odd impromptu mating ritual.

Misty quickly slid around the edge of the enclosure, her rear squeezed between it and the dirt wall of the partial excavation as she moved toward the woman's head.

"What are you doing, Misty?" Julius asked. "You know you could have gone the other way around," he said and removed his hand.

Misty didn't acknowledge another one of Julius' obvious observations regarding her flighty behavior. She was too busy thinking about something. Something she desperately hoped she was wrong about.

She reached over the edge into the tomb once more, this time leaning directly over the beautiful woman and..."just a little bit more...Hey...Julie?"

"What?" Julius had a acquired an SLR camera from one of the assistants standing above the dig and was busily taking photos.

"We need to close this! I think I feel a pulse. Very faint and slow, but I am pretty sure she's alive."

"Huh?"

"I have read enough science fiction and fantasy stories to know. You don't seal up beautiful women in huge stone boxes at the bottom of a temple for no reason. Especially when they still look amazing at 160,000 years old and are very pregnant..."