23/33 The gauzy stuff seemed to vibrate--its strands to run together like quick-silver. I snatched the crystal from my eyes and--the chamber was empty! Put it back--and there were the grinning six! Yolara gave another sign and they disappeared, even from the crystals. "It is something that came to us from--the Ancient Ones. But we have so few"-- she sighed. "I am the keeper of them." She mused for a space, then abruptly: "And now no more. |