Loren

"If there is Magic on this planet, it is contained in water. "

"Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us. "

"The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me. "