Var the Stick
“"Why does the Master have to conquer the mountain, if it does so much?" "Bob says he's demented. Bob says he's a doublecrosser. He was supposed to end the empire, but he attacked the mountain instead. Bob's real mad." "The Master said the mountain was bad. He said he couldn't make the empire great until he conquered the mountain. And now he says he'll burn it all, after he kills me." "Maybe he is demented," she whispered.
Var wondered, himself.
"I'm frightened," Soil said after a pause. "Bob says If the nomads make an empire there'll be another Blast, and no one will escape. He says they're the violent 'lement of our society, and they can't have 'nology or they'll make the Blast. Again. But now" Var couldn't follow that either. "Who made the mountain?" he asked her.
"Jim says he thinks it was made by post-Blast civilization," she said uncertainly. "There was radiation everywhere and they were dying, but they took their big machines and scooped a whole city ...into a pile and dug it out and put in 'lectricity and saved their finest scientists and fixed it so no one else could get inside.MoreLess
Var wondered, himself.
"I'm frightened," Soil said after a pause. "Bob says If the nomads make an empire there'll be another Blast, and no one will escape. He says they're the violent 'lement of our society, and they can't have 'nology or they'll make the Blast. Again. But now" Var couldn't follow that either. "Who made the mountain?" he asked her.
"Jim says he thinks it was made by post-Blast civilization," she said uncertainly. "There was radiation everywhere and they were dying, but they took their big machines and scooped a whole city ...into a pile and dug it out and put in 'lectricity and saved their finest scientists and fixed it so no one else could get inside.MoreLess
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