The White Crystal meets its past
When everything was ready, the already familiar reaction sequence of the White Crystal commenced. It gradually started with a glow that soon became intense, followed by the colors of the spectrum, followed by calm and darkness, which was in turn followed by the thick milky light, just prior to the sharp flash. Suddenly, they found themselves at a time that everything around them had disappeared. The city of Athens had disappeared, and only stretches of pine forests and meadows could be seen, crisscrossed by two beautiful rivers, Ilyssus and Kiffisus, that cooled the plateau of the land of Attica. The Holy Rock was almost naked, full of low growth, small trees, a few herbaceous plants and thorny bushes. On the periphery, they could see the elongated distort
