Burning Hut

 

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I. Mountain Outpost  ⛩

The Dragonfly paused. Pale Horse stared deeply into her eyes. She felt him walk the winding trail of her life. He continued.

“You are the messenger spoken of by the wise men of generations past. They told us you would eventually arrive. The hiding moon is now silver. Now you arrive. Your Cheyenne name is Eagle Eye. You fly. You see far. The wise men told me this.”

Pale Horse beckoned to a brave.

“Show her the NeXT.”

Later that night.

The clown smiled, but it only saddened his beaked face, & when he spoke it was with the soft elaborate phrasing of the Central Sectors.

“If I were to use the wits the good spirits gave me,” he said “then I would say this lady cannot exist- for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather I would not be sane & lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.”*

Astira drowned in a chilled sea. She swam in her mind’s dream. Where did it come from- her, or from a face in the stars? She shuddered. She felt the floor of the mountain. The curtain of night lay open in the moon’s silver crescent. Deep red embers smoldered in Taryn’s fire….

*”Foundation & Empire” by Isaac Asimov.