Dusts of Avalon - Beastwithin.org

VII. L A Kicy heart of old dust. Around it, flames of mainery bring me animation drivenby intellect. Risen from the asm of Hephaestus, the fires within an iron stovehath given it intellect, and lo, the stove now walketh the Earth.”Dr. Grovepath couldn't suppress his laughter. Few others present could.“And with that, I worked for centuries to fashion the Mobile Armours, perusingnotes le by Greek and Roman master-smiths, uncovering the secrets neededto build the Steeds of new, and the New Avalon. I worked with whoever I foundtrustworthy enough to locate Avalon and find the burial site of Arthur and someof the Knights. I was actually surprised to hear that most of the closest knightshad been interred in Avalon — I heard tales that they had been buried all acrossBritain…”“at's… another thing that appears to be rather puzzling”, Dr. Merrywoodsaid. “So you say Avalon was a real place? I wanted to ask you about the locationof Camelot…”“Avalon, the original burial site of the Knights, does exist. Camelot, sad tosay, has been razed since. It was not a formidable fortress the legend makes itto be, nor was it the thing of splendor; a mere simple castle that was mu moreremarkable for the people who inhabited it. Bigger and more splendorous castleshave been built.” Merlin sounded strangely interested. “Can you recommend acastle to replace it?”“Sure”, Daleworth said. “I'm sure the folks at Neuswanstein would love tohave a few legendary knights running around. Would boost the tiet sales totourists. rough the roof. And the roofs are prey high there.”“Bah!” Arthur said with a ule. “As if we would suffer traveling commonersin our halls.”“You'll be sorely disappointed in our world, then”, Daleworth said. “Even theWindsor Castle gets guided tours these days. Times ange.”Arthur looked grumpier. “Right. Uh… Where were we?”“e Stove walketh the Earth and figureth out where Arthur hath been buried?”Daleworth said.“Right”, Arthur said. “We simply used the same process that had been usedon me to rejuvenate the knights. Within our New Avalon, I trained the Knightsand let them get used to their new Armour. en, they began their new sleep, andwe took off to the skies.”“I see”, Dr. Grovepath said. “But what about the disappearance? How… didyou even take off to the skies? Do you travel through the time? How?”“at was all thanks to a strange device we found”, Merlin said. “Morgan hadkept it in her care for years, without ever telling where it actually came from. Adevice, she claimed, that would somehow transport even large objects far away,and even across the time — if one could interpret correctly the strange symbolsembedded on its surface…”