Now it showed this subterranean hall in which we stood.

There was pomp here, yet it was but a shadow of that which had been in the earlier days upon the face of the earth.

Courtiers moved about the palace and there were people in the radiant streets and the houses, for most of them were occupied, but rarely did the vision show children coming through their gates.
Of a sudden this scene shifted.

Now we saw that same hall in which we had visited Oro not an hour before.

There he sat, yes, Oro himself, upon the dais beneath the overhanging marble shell.