turned on Amanath, Ynar comes forth beneath the Crystal peak to weave
strange spells and to make signs that people say are surely for the
gods. Therefore it is said in all those lands that Ynar speaks at
evening to the gods when all the world is still.

And Ynar said:

"All knowledge is with the King, and without doubt it hath come to the
King's ears how certain speech is held at evening on the Peak of
Amanath.

"They that speak to me at evening on the Peak are They that live in a
city through whose streets Death walketh not, and I have heard it from
Their Elders that the King shall take no journey; only from thee the
hills shall slip away, the dark woods, the sky and all the gleaming
worlds that fill the night, and the green fields shall go on untrodden
by thy feet and the blue sky ungazed at by thine eyes, and still the
rivers shall all run seaward but making no music in thine ears. And all
the old laments shall still be spoken, troubling thee not, and to the
earth shall fall the tears of the children of earth and never grieving
thee. Pestilence, heat and cold, ignorance, famine and anger, these
things shall grip their claws upon all men as heretofore in fields and
roads and cities but shall not hold thee. But from thy soul, sitting in
the old worn track of the worlds when all is gone away, shall fall off
the shackles of circumstance and thou shalt dream thy dreams alone.

"And thou shalt find that dreams are real where there is nought as far
as the Rim but only thy dreams and thee.

"With them thou shalt build palaces and cities resting upon nothing and