Dark Prince (2011)
“On it, silhouetted in the moonlight, stood the twin pillars of the giant’s gateway, and upon them was a marble lintel stone deeply etched with writings of a form and language Alexander had never seen.
Three times that day the boy had been drawn to the stones, walking around and between the pillars, trying to make sense of their hidden messages. The columns themselves were ornately carved and, save for the most subtle differences, identical. There was a sunburst surrounded by eighteen spheres on... the left column; on the right there were nineteen spheres. At the base of each was a curious carving of what appeared to be the footprint of a beast with four talons, and higher above it was the outline of a crab, or a spider, or even a three-headed monster. It was hard to tell what had been intended by the sculptor.
Alexander picked up a stone and skimmed it across the surface of the lake. The gateway haunted his thinking, and he lay back on the soft grass, seeking the clue he needed. On each pillar, facing inward, was a jutting stone—like fingers pointing at one another.MoreLess
Three times that day the boy had been drawn to the stones, walking around and between the pillars, trying to make sense of their hidden messages. The columns themselves were ornately carved and, save for the most subtle differences, identical. There was a sunburst surrounded by eighteen spheres on... the left column; on the right there were nineteen spheres. At the base of each was a curious carving of what appeared to be the footprint of a beast with four talons, and higher above it was the outline of a crab, or a spider, or even a three-headed monster. It was hard to tell what had been intended by the sculptor.
Alexander picked up a stone and skimmed it across the surface of the lake. The gateway haunted his thinking, and he lay back on the soft grass, seeking the clue he needed. On each pillar, facing inward, was a jutting stone—like fingers pointing at one another.MoreLess
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