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When the World Shook

CHAPTER XV
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The rest of them are now beneath the sea.

But when trouble came and the foe rained fire on them from the air, they retreated to this town, Nyo, which signifies Beneath." "And then ?" "And then they died.

The Water of Life may prolong life, but it cannot make women bear children.

That they will only do beneath the blue of heaven, not deep in the belly of the world where Nature never designed that they should dwell.

How would the voices of children sound in such halls as these?
Tell me, you, Bickley, who are a physician." "I cannot.


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