The Festival of Bones: Mythworld book One
“Galen began, as he took a seat opposite Jude in the latter’s laboratory, “we thought we had a history book, and it turns out we discovered the end of the world.”“One of the ends of the world, “ Michael corrected from the back of the room, where he was examining a large piece of machinery that looked like a Muppet version of a nuclear reactor. It had six arms sticking out of it like control rods, but they curved back to the machine in overlapping loops. The center was a vacuum cleaner—or what passed for one, anyway. He thought it was cute, but probably expensive—then wondered if it cost anywhere near what he constantly paid out for pieces of moldy paper.Jude waved both of them down, apologizing. “I think that’s my fault—I didn’t mean to imply that the end of a Calendar Round meant the actual end of the world—far from it, in fact. For the Maya, the zero day, even on the Calendar Round, did not necessarily mean destruction—sometimes it really was just a transition, which may have meant a...nything from two spectral worlds passing in the night, to a merging of certain aspects, to, well, destruction.”“Then what is it you expect is going to happen soon?”MoreLess
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