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children beyond the peaks of the high hills, and there were many flat stones piled on the slope of the high
hill that appeared to have once been nests of the man-things, and it seemed that the empty nests might be
useful to deceive the man-things.

In time, all was complete, and Mother waited as the elder divinities grew older and less responsive. Then,
in the springtime of this present year, all was ready, and Mother commanded the children to attack the
man-things clustered near the top of that particular high hill.

And great was the consternation of the man-things when the servants of our mother crossed the empty
ground to attack the pile of rocks the man-things had gathered at the top of that high hill. But the
man-things knew not that most of the servants of dear Mother were creeping through burrows that went
beneath that high hill to come out in various rock-piles lying on the sunset side of the high hills.

And Mother rejoiced, for victory was now in her grasp.

But it was not to be, for disaster came down on the servants in the burrows. Two of the high hills did
most suddenly burst into flame, hurling liquid fire high into the spring sky. It was not the liquid fire in the
sky that brought grief to Mother, however. It was the liquid fire that ran down through the burrows that
made the servants of dear Mother vanish as if they had never been.

And when word of this reached Mother, she shrieked in agony, and all who lived but to serve her
shrieked as well, for our overmind was made less by this disaster.

Now, the seekers of knowledge had spent much time over generations in the lands of the man-things, and
they had come to learn the way by which the man-things used noises to communicate with each other.
And many of the seekers of knowledge had learned how to make the noises the man-things called
"speech." And so it was that when our beloved Mother decided that we should go down into the land of
longer summers where there was much to eat, the seekers went up the slope of the high hills to gather
information about the man-things of that region.

And while the seekers worked on this task, beloved Mother brought forth many new forms for the
warrior children. The new forms were well-designed to overcome the many advantages the man-things
appeared to have had in the land of the sunset.

And when the seekers returned, they were sorely discontented, for the man-things had told them many
things that were not true. In truth it would appear that the man-things said more things that were not true
than were truly true. The seekers had discovered one thing that they felt to be most important, however.
Although that which ruled the land of longer summers was called Veltan, there was another man-thing
called Omago, who had far, far more power than did the one called Veltan. The Omago thing was not
yet fully aware of this power, and it had never used it. There was yet another man-thing called Ara,
however, who shared this knowledge with the Omago thing, but it never spoke with the Omago thing
about that power.

As the new hatch of the warrior servants matured, beloved Mother sent them toward the land of longer
summers, and we all believed that our warrior servants would most easily overcome the man-things, and
the land of longer summers would be ours before the seasons changed.

But it was not so, for many man-things had come to the land of longer summers, and they had piled up
endless stacks of flat stones to impede our progress toward what was rightfully ours. And once again, the
cursed man-things used things that were not parts of their bodies as weapons. We had encountered the