“As it shrank multitudes of the fleeing people were led through Moon Pool Chamber and carried here. They were what now are called the ladala , and they were given place and set to work; and they thrived. Came many of the fair-haired; and they were given dwellings. They sat beside the evil Taithu; they became drunk even as they with the dancing of the Shining One; they learned⁠—not all; only a little part but little enough⁠—of their arts. And ever the Shining One danced more gaily out there within the black amphitheatre; grew ever stronger⁠—and ever the hordes of its slaves behind the Veil increased.

“Nor did the Taithu who clung to the old ways check this⁠—they could not. By the sinking of the land above, their own spaces were imperilled. All of their strength and all of their wisdom it took to keep this land from perishing; nor had they help from those others mad for the poison of the Shining One; and they had no time to deal with them nor the Earth race with whom they had foregathered.