A HISTORICAL FIND in the year 3200

the future the year 3200
she walks across the desert. and the sun shines its brilliance all over the plain. for miles to see or either side just desert dashing off in all directions towards the horizon. she senses no city no distant humming signifiying life.
she stops to survey 360.
her mind must have changed since she started on the journey. when that was she could remember when she began, but how many nights and days had lapsed by she couldnt remember at all.
so her mind must have changed. literally. physically. mentally.
she looked up at the sky. vast sundrenched blue arching its way like a dome. as if u were at the centre of a soap bubble and looking outwards and beyond. she hadnt seen this before. this kind of landscape. there was somehow more warmth about it, it kind of pulled you in on waves. she could breath easier. she had stopped and she had thought and this was a great moment for her. just to stop and think.
her reason for coming this way?
the distance between the old civilisations and the new civilisations is huge. in whatever way you wanted to measure it, it is huge. light years? the Shift had been so sudden that it seems like yesterday, it didnt happen gradually you see, it happened like a shift from one blink to another. everything had changed. it was like something had happened to every one of the atoms in the body at once, like they had spun. and here she was now a desert queen. this dry hot air suits her skin and this warmth she absorbs like breathing it in to every cell in her body. and out again. and in again. and out again. and in again.
there had been nothing left of the days before the Shift. they could find nothing the same. the world had changed beyond all recognition. she had been walking mainly through the valleys across hills of soft green grass, and then through mountains, gleaming with snow in the dark night, and stars (still the stars) were so close and the sky from the top of the mountain was huge.
but they had sent news from over the desert. they had found a sea. far far away. the desert was so vast. that had been the first news. the second news which quite staggered them. it was almost unthinkable. it couldnt be true. nothing else remained of their world but this. it seemed on the edge of a lonely sea where there is a pink sky and the mists rise so high, they have found a square silver metallic geometrically perfect box. and in this square silver metallic geometrically perfect box they found the ------------