“So,” he asked of Mashuwa, “where is this mystical place?”

“When I was younger,” Mashuwa continued. “I often visited the Sinulu people, and amongst the many stories I learned from them was one which told of a far-away land and an ancient and powerful city, at the heart of which was a source of power beyond imagination. I shared this story with the people working at the Centre. Most of them laughed at the idea, but to my surprise there were a handful of people who held a theory, that this distant source of Aether might indeed be a long-forgotten city. In the stories of the Sinulu, the city was known as Sidon, but your people believed it was a city from the Holy Book, a city called Ras Shamra.”

“The Holy City?” Nathaniel asked. “Tha...

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