IX“It cuts out there,” said Whelm. “To be honest, I'm surprised we got as much as we did. It must have been a section from the master's personal diary, his recorded thoughts and recollections overlaid onto the pictures.”
“It's amazing,” said Finn. “That was the Inner Wheel, where I was judged. But it was ancient when I went there. I remember all those carved stone faces reaching up into the shadows. Hundreds of them. I knew Engn had been there for a long time, but that must have been centuries and centuries ago.”
“I heard of people who spent their days copying spindles,” said Whelm. “Just duplicating old ones onto new ones, one after the other for their entire lives. I suppose they must have been doing it to keep those ancient recordings readable.”
“It's odd, though,” said Finn. “That m
