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Merlin’s Mirror ?? Andre Norton 1. The beacon still called from deep within the rough-walled fastness of the cave. Its message was fainter now. Each planet year had put more strain upon this mechanism, though its creators had attempted to make it everlasting. They believed they had foreseen every eventuality. They had—except the weakness within their own rule and the nature of the world from which the beacon called. Time had been swallowed, was gone, and still the beacon kept to its task, while outside the cave nations had risen and decayed, men themselves had changed and changed again. Everything the makers of the beacon had known was erased during those years, destroyed by the very action of nature. Seas swept in upon the land, then retired, the force of their waves taking whole cities and countries. Mountains reared up, so that the shattered remains of once- proud ports were lifted into the thin air of great heights. Deserts crept in over green fields. A moon fell from the sky and another took its place. Still the beacon called and called, summoning those who had vanished and left behind only legends, strange, time-distorted tales. And now |
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