“Remarkable, is it not?”
She turned to see the sprite seated where the dome met the wall.
“You’ve learned your previous lessons well.”
Alexis looked back at the mechanism as she said, “What is it?”
“More than a thousand years ago, the Berdjan clan lived in the Vanishing Mountains. They were a mountain people and the first to map the stars long before wizards turned their attention to such pursuits. They built this mechanism for that purpose. The first king of Milagros was Berdjan. He built it here when he ascended to the throne. A wizard studied this mechanism and later built its exact duplicates at the southern and easternmost points of the Nuwa as the north and west were already home to such things.
“He used the same materials from which the first two were sculpted according to the
