“Ah yes, that ancient legend.” Doctor Shanmugam looked perfectly comfortable in his loose tunic and breeches, only sandals on his feet. The snow-bound peak behind him belied the hot temperatures on the valley floor around it, the sight of it in stark contrast to the soft, hot breeze and warm sun in the plaza garden. “It was said that Lemurians traveled round the world in the years before disaster was to strike their continent, and they recorded upon crystals all the information they gathered on Earth's cultures and stowed those crystals inside Mount Shasta before returning to Lemuria and perishing when that continent sank into the Indian Ocean.” Doctor Shanmugam chuckled mightily. “A fanciful notion, both of those. Yes, later Lemuria did indeed use conventional crystals to store informat

