Discovery of Steviomium

Discovery of Steviomium

One day, young John was off exploring in a very dark deep part of the jungle and fell into a huge hole... almost like the earth had swallowed him up. Looking around he found that he was surrounded by a glowing surface. John sat there and looked about the entire room, it looked like the glowing rock went for miles and miles. Scared John climbed out of the hole using the vegitation that was hanging down and ran as far away as possible.

Curosity finally got the better of John and he went back to the small opening this time bringing a small torch, climbing down slowly into the cave he held the torch out infront of him. The glowing surface shined back the torch light and almost illuminated the entire cave for as far as his eyes could see. Unbeknownst to John, he had just discovered one of the rarest matierals on the face of earth.

Walking slowly into the cave John reached down and picked up a small shatered piece of the metal, it was cool to the touch. He moved to the wall, cautious of any activity around him, he used the piece like a pencil and slowly cut a line into the wall. Amazed by this John started to craft little symbols and signs, laughter filled the air as he continued to play.

John continued to go back to the cave day after day, week after week, he would draw upon the walls and explore the depths of the cave. One day he grew tired of the small piece that he had and set upon to try and gather a larger piece. This proved to be very difficult, as the piece he had could not cut to deep into the wall to take a larger piece out.

Finally an idea came to him, he took the small piece he had (about the size of his index finger) and wrapped it in a small piece of cloth. Taking the wrapped piece of metal he stuck the end into his torch and held it there until he felt the heat radiate into the cloth. Dropping the torch he moved quickly to the wall and pushed with all of his strength into the metal, feeling it slip slowly in, he started to carve out a bigger piece, about the size of his hand. Watching it fall to the floor he jumped up and down in triump, just discovering the way to craft and shape this new found metal.