Somewhither: a Tale of the Unwithering Realm
“The Vanished Moon There came a sudden light and noise from above, a multicolored lightning.
I turned my head, shocked.
Above me rose tier on tier of bastion on bastion; and I saw the immensity of faces peering down at me, serpentine, accipitrine, caprine, or imperious.
The same pattern of statues peering downward I saw on the balcony below me was repeated above me, and this next balcony was near, so they loomed huge in my vision.
All the gigantic and gigantically silent faces were cast in shadow by a spread of colored lights behind them, and it lent them an aspect ferocious, cold, and terrible. Mile upon mile of mask upon mask all stared down, hung at each balcony like the shields on the side of a Viking ship, silent as the statues of angels in a midnight graveyard.
Behind and above the staring faces, above them all, so far and so high as to be something more akin to what an astronomer could describe rather than an engineer, flamed a blaze of pristine light, many-c...olored like Saturn’s Rings, coming from the upper endlessness of the tower.MoreLess
I turned my head, shocked.
Above me rose tier on tier of bastion on bastion; and I saw the immensity of faces peering down at me, serpentine, accipitrine, caprine, or imperious.
The same pattern of statues peering downward I saw on the balcony below me was repeated above me, and this next balcony was near, so they loomed huge in my vision.
All the gigantic and gigantically silent faces were cast in shadow by a spread of colored lights behind them, and it lent them an aspect ferocious, cold, and terrible. Mile upon mile of mask upon mask all stared down, hung at each balcony like the shields on the side of a Viking ship, silent as the statues of angels in a midnight graveyard.
Behind and above the staring faces, above them all, so far and so high as to be something more akin to what an astronomer could describe rather than an engineer, flamed a blaze of pristine light, many-c...olored like Saturn’s Rings, coming from the upper endlessness of the tower.MoreLess
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