Betrayer of Worlds
“Bm’o ordered. By an understated curl of a tubacle tip he signaled Rt’o, his most trusted counselor, to linger.
With a formal glide, the ambassador of Gk’ho Nation retreated from Bm’o’s ceremonial audience chamber. Courtiers and sycophants scuttled after. As soon as the last had disappeared, Bm’o jetted to the smaller but more comfortable office from which he truly ruled.
Through its floor of clearest ice, regularly scraped smooth, he admired the glory that was his domain. Lm’ba, the world’s mig...htiest city, stretched from the top of this seamount into the depths far beneath, from what traditionalists still called the roof of the world into the abyssal depths from whose searing vents boiled the stuff of life. Here at the summit, as across the ice, the buildings were all grand edifices of metal and glass. As his eyes swept downward more and more stone structures appeared until, stretching across the floor of the world, in the province of ranchers and herders, only rude stone structures could be seen.MoreLess
With a formal glide, the ambassador of Gk’ho Nation retreated from Bm’o’s ceremonial audience chamber. Courtiers and sycophants scuttled after. As soon as the last had disappeared, Bm’o jetted to the smaller but more comfortable office from which he truly ruled.
Through its floor of clearest ice, regularly scraped smooth, he admired the glory that was his domain. Lm’ba, the world’s mig...htiest city, stretched from the top of this seamount into the depths far beneath, from what traditionalists still called the roof of the world into the abyssal depths from whose searing vents boiled the stuff of life. Here at the summit, as across the ice, the buildings were all grand edifices of metal and glass. As his eyes swept downward more and more stone structures appeared until, stretching across the floor of the world, in the province of ranchers and herders, only rude stone structures could be seen.MoreLess
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