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    The guests looked around with caution.
    - "Giants! What giants!" whispered Marina.
    After standing a bit longer on the balcony, the travelers, shocked by what they had seen, came out into the light.
    - "You liked it, I hope?" asked the Teacher. – "Now, if you wouldn't mind, our elders would like to make your acquaintance." "I'll go ahead." "Samir, you know where to go."
     
     
    Chapter 6. The Council
     
    The council met in the White Tower. A small room at the base served as the meeting hall. The white walls shined from the light fixtures hanging from the ceiling. Incense was smoking in the corners. It smelled of tulips. Fifteen elders were sitting at a table in the center of the room. Fourteen men, among whom sat the Teacher. The fifteenth was a woman in yellow. The elders were faintly glowing, as if they were surrounded by a cloud of bluish ether.
    Samir led the guests into the hall, and stopped before the council.
    -         "Thank you for agreeing to help us," pronounced the woman. Her beautiful, lively eyes carefully surveyed each of the guests. "I thank you in the name of the citizens of Olmolungring."
    -         "That is the elder Kriida," answered Samir in an undertone.
    -         "What a beautiful woman!" whispered Margo, "we agreed to help? Who? Whom?"
    -         “Kut Kumi, you didn't tell them?" Kriida asked the teacher.
    -         "I was not able, Kriida." "I am not sure that they are ready.”
    -         “Well, in any case, thanks for bringing them," answered Kriida. And silently began to look over the guests. There was an awkward pause. The travelers shifted from foot to foot.
    -         "What's going on here! Why are we here?" ask Boris, frustrated .
    Kriida, after holding her gaze on Margo for an abnormally long time, finally spoke.
    She explained that a tragedy had occurred in Olmolungring. A relic, stored here since the city's founding, has been stolen. The Shintaman stone, or Chintamani, as the ancient Lemurians called it, was taken up to earth. This threatened a catastrophe.  Without the Stone, the city became defenseless, and visible to dark forces.  Now they could attack at any minute and destroy their hated stronghold of Light on Earth.
    -         "How could you have let this happen?!" cried Nastia in horror, "with your abilities..."
    -         "They recruited one of our own... We were not expecting a strike from within," lamented Kut Kumi.  "They are fiendishly clever, those servants of Lucius."
    -         "Lucius? Who's that?" asked Andrei.
    -         "Lucifer," said Kriida, "you've heard of him, I'm sure."
    -         "Of course we have," responded Margo, "but we didn't think he was real."
    -         “There is much more to reality than you imagine," answered Kut Kumi.
    -         "What will happen now?" asked Marina.
    -         "If we cannot return the Stone by the end of the lunar month," answered Kriida, "it is frightening to imagine what Lucius may do. He has always dreamed of destroying mankind. We've been fighting with him since the world was created..."
    -         "So then you are powerless against him?"
    -         "No, we are still strong," answered Kriida. But if he attacks Shambhala, we will have to concentrate all our forces here. People will be without protection. Lucius will not miss this chance to destroy humanity. His army is much more numerous than ours. He can succeed, both there and here. When we eventually win, we will have to make mankind again. Which takes millions of years...  But you can help us."
    -         "How?! In what way?" asked Andrei.
    -         "Are we the raw materials to recreate man? Human guinea pigs for breeding?" grunted Margo.
    -         If that was our goal, we would have chosen the best..." interrupted Samir, stopping under the gaze of Kut Kumi.
    Margo gave Samir a glare. Nastia asked,
    "Then what