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"And many have been the journeys upward of the Shining One, through the Moon Pool returning with still others in its coils. "And now again has it grown restless, longing for the wider spaces. It has spoken to Yolara and to Lugur even as it did to the dead Taithu, promising them dominion. And it has grown stronger, drawing to itself power to go far on the moon stream where it will.
They sat beside the evil Taithu; they became drunk even as they with the dancing of the Shining One; they learned not all; only a little part but little enough of their arts. And ever the Shining One danced more gaily out there within the black amphitheatre; grew ever stronger and ever the hordes of its slaves behind the Veil increased.
"Nor did the Taithu who clung to the old ways check this they could not. By the sinking of the land above, their own spaces were imperilled. All of their strength and all of their wisdom it took to keep this land from perishing; nor had they help from those others mad for the poison of the Shining One; and they had no time to deal with them nor the earth race with whom they had foregathered.
The Shining One came not to the aid of its servants though they called; for within its will was the thought that they were of no further use to it; that it would rest awhile and dance with them who had so little of the power and wisdom of its Taithu and therefore no reins upon it. And while this was happening black-haired and fair-haired ran and hid and were but shaking vessels of terror.
"Since then time upon time had passed," she went on, unheeding. "The people called this place Muria after their sunken land and soon they forgot where had been the passage the Taithu had sealed. The moon king became the Voice of the Dweller and always with the Voice is a woman of the moon king's kin who is its priestess.
"Stronger grew the Dweller and less and less did it lay before its worshippers for now so they had become the fruits of its knowledge; and it grew restless turning its gaze upon earth face even as it had turned it from the Three. It whispered to the Taithu to take again the paths and look out upon the world.
And ever they turned more and more from the ways in which the Taithu had walked for it seemed that which came to the Shining One through the seven orbs had less and less of good and more and more of the power you call evil.
And all this the Taithu did, working so secretly that neither those of their race whose faces were set against the Shining One nor the busy men above know aught of it. "When it was done they moved up the path, clustering within the Moon Pool Chamber.
Therefore it told its Taithu and mayhap told them truth that not yet was it time for them to go forth; that slowly must they pass into that outer world, for they had sprung from heart of earth and even it lacked power to swirl unaided into and through the above. Then it counselled them, instructing them what to do.
Again they sought the Three and the Three now knew what they had done and their pride was humbled. They would not slay the Shining One themselves, for still they loved it; but they instructed these others how to undo their work; how also they might destroy the evil Taithu were it necessary. "Armed with the wisdom of the Three they went forth but now the Shining One was strong indeed.
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