Years have passed since the bell of Atlantis last hit.Novus Aetheria had become a legend whose details in the narratives ofElders slowly faded. The valley, once a scene of cosmic struggles, wasnow filled with a lush, wild peace. The ruins of the bell tower wereby Moos and climbing ferns, a natural monument fora time in which people had tried the fabric of the world with light andTo bend frequencies.I often sat on the veranda of my little house of stone and wood. My hair wasnow with silver strands, and my hands, once the loom of theCreation had served, were now rough from work in the garden. Kael sat beside me,carved on a piece of wood – a simple, mechanical figure, a toy for theChildren who grew up in the valley and never the sum of the machines or theScares of the hybrids had known.“They play at the brook,” Kael said, pointing down the valley with the knife.The children built small dams and water wheels there, not energy for a cityto win, but just to see how the water
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