“Down,” said Bosh, pointing away from the door.
“How far?” asked Glissa.
“Past bottom of Lumengrid, huh?” said Slobad. “Found entrance below. Amazing. Tunnel wide as Mother’s Womb down there. Go on forever.”
“That must be why all of the corridors go around the center of Lumengrid,” said Glissa. She looked at Bosh. “Is this one of the other holes down into the inner world? You said there were more like the Mother’s Womb that Krark used in the mountains.”
Bosh nodded. “We should proceed,” he said. He picked up Bruenna and began walking away from the doorway. Slobad and Glissa got to their feet and followed the iron golem.
“What happened to you?” asked Slobad as they walked.
“Visions,” said Glissa. “Like Bruenna’s father experienced. Random visions I couldn’t control.”
“Anything useful?” asked Slobad.
“No,” said Glissa. “Maybe. I don’t know. It was all a jumble.” Glissa kicked at the moss that covered much of the silvery surface of Lumengrid’s inner core.
“Flare!” she muttered. “We came all this way for nothing. Bruenna almost died … and for what? The vedalken may no longer want me dead, but this Memnarch plans to use me to destroy the world. I don’t even know where to find him, let alone how to stop him. We’re no closer to figuring out Chunth’s great mystery than we were when we left the Tangle.”
“The trip was not completely without merit,” said Bosh.
“What do you mean?” asked Glissa.
“The Pool aided me in recovering my memories,” said Bosh.
“That’s great,” said Glissa. She ran down the side of the hole to catch up with the golem. “What do you remember?”
“Everything.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Will McDermott has clawed his way from total obscurity to relative obscurity in just a few short years. The Moons of Mirrodin is the second MAGIC: THE GATHERING novel for the former editor-in-chief of Duelist and TopDeck magazines. His other credits include Judgment, book three in the Odyssey cycle, and three MAGIC short stories: “The Lady of the Mountain” in The Myths of Magic anthology, “Journey Home” in The Secrets of Magic anthology, and “Ach! Hans, Run!” in The Monsters of Magic anthology. Will lives in Hamburg, New York, with his wife, three young ruffians, and one large, insane dog.
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