A blue-shimmering parapet which they must scale they gazed across the bowl where Garcilaso's suited body gleamed like a remote pyre and up the curve opposite to Saturn. The planet shone lambent amber softly banded the rings a coronet which a shadow band across their arc seemed to make all the brighter. That radiance overcame sight of most nearby stars but elsewhere they arrayed themselves multitudinous in splendor around the silver road which the galaxy clove between them. "How right a tomb for Alvarlan... read more
