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. "I've
never seen the black moon's shape before - only a hole in
the sky where it hides stars. It's a disk, like the other two.
Look, it's almost covered the white moon.... It has
covered it!"
Where the white moon had been was now only a dim
ring of brighter stuff in the sky - a hairline circle of radi-
ance, encompassing darkness. The black moon had cov-
ered the white one.
At that instant Glenshadow's staff came to life. The
crystal in its head, which normally resembled blue ice
but which had looked like dull chalk since entering the
Valley of Waykeep, blazed brilliant red as if all the lumi-
nance of the red moon had condensed in it. A beam of
crimson shot from the staff to burn for an instant on the
forehead of the astonished dwarf... only for an instant.
Then the beam danced away, up the side of the conical
tower, right to its top, where it rested, a ruby brilliance at
the monolith's peak.
Chane Feldstone stared at the ruby light with eyes not
quite the same as his eyes had been before. Without a
word he walked to the base of the monolith and found
the handholds and toeholds that the kender had found
before.
The rest were still staring at the eclipsed white moon,
unable to tear their eyes from the omen. Little by little,
the dark moon continued its transit, and a crescent of
white reappeared - the opposite crescent, emerging
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