The Elementals by Morgan Llywelyn

Author:Morgan Llywelyn
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2011-02-11T05:00:00+00:00

The stone sat on its hillside and thought. Its thoughts were not cerebral. It had no cerebral cortex. Nor were they visceral. Stones do not need viscera. The thoughts of stone are the thoughts of earth, compacted, weighed down by the eons, thrust upward by cataclysm, encased in ice. Immobile for millennia. Then pushed, shoved, dragged, dropped.

The stone sat where the glacier had abandoned it. The surrounding landscape slowly changed. Vegetation appeared, softly mantling the ice-scraped soil. Trees grew. Great lizards came. And disappeared. Mammals rubbed their itching sides on the stone to rid themselves of parasites.

Rain poured over the stone; rain from its cousins the mountains, who helped shape the weather, controlling wind currents and influencing the amount of precipitation.

Sun shone.

Change followed change.

Two-legged mammals arrived. They recognized the stone as fearsome and holy and bowed in worship before it. In what served as its consciousness, the stone thought this behavior just and proper. It was part of the sacred earth.

Then different, paler, bifurcated beings arrived, and began slaughtering the worshipers of the stone.

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