The Lake of Mirrors
In a high, hidden valley surrounded by jagged peaks, there was a lake so still it looked like stone. The Sky-Mirror people lived on its shores, convinced that the water …
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The Fire Lizard of the Volcano
Deep in a valley fringed by a rumbling mountain, a tribe called Ash-Breath lived in uneasy peace with the volcano. Sometimes it slept. Sometimes it spat sparks. Sometimes it vomited …
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Before maps and compasses, the ocean was a monster’s mouth. Still, Stone Age people hugged its edges, fishing in coves and paddling short distances in hollowed logs. Far out where …
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On the Stone Age plains, wild horses were flashes of light: here, then gone, leaving dust and heartbeat behind. Humans watched them with mixed feelings—envy for their speed, hunger for …
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Far beyond the familiar shores of any tribe, there was an island rising from mist, crowned with strange trees and ruled by birds taller than men. No human knew it …
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On the edge of a dense Stone Age forest, a cave opened like a giant’s mouth, ringed with soot. Inside lived the Flint-Hand clan, hunters and gatherers who told stories …
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In the wide, cold land where pine forests met ice, mammoths walked in slow, patient lines. Their footprints filled with snow; their breath rose like ghosts. One mammoth, older than …
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Long before humans dreamed of flying, the cliffs by the endless sea were ruled by the great wings—pterosaurs with beaks like spears and wings wide as a mammoth is long. …
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Before dogs slept by fires, wolves watched those fires from the dark. Their eyes glowed like twin embers beyond the ring of light, listening to the strange, soft sounds of …
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The sky over the Stone Age plain was always busy: vultures circling, mammoths marching, storms rolling in like dark mountains. But nothing shook the ground like Thunderhoof, the last giant …
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