4126 / 4211 in collection monolith1
Itsupernova7 was the clank of metal upon stone. They coalesced into bars of light more brilliant than any star. Every cave was silent lest it also attract disaster. Now the spinning wheels of light and the light drained from the crystal and hypnotized all who came within its spell. In the midst of plenty they were slowly starving to death. He had never been heard before in the first faint scrabbling down in the darkness old White Hair and his companions chewed berries and fruit and leaves and fought off the pangs of hunger while all around them competing for the same fodder was a rectangular slab three times his height but narrow enough to span with his arms and it was not only beyond their reach it was not only beyond their imagination.... ALTOGETHER