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sunlight pooled on a big stone table in the center of the room. Urn unrolled the length of a scroll. Brilliant flowers glowed in the golden light.
"Orinjcrates' On the Nature of Plants," said Didactylos. "Six hundred plants and their uses . . ."
"They're beautiful," whispered Brutha.
"Yes, that is one Brutha looked down at a picture of a turtle. There were . . . elephants, they're elephants, his memory supplied, from the fresh memories of the bestiary sinking indelibly into his mind . . . elephants on its back, and on them something with mountains and a waterfall of an ocean around its edge . . .
"How can this be?" said Brutha. "A world on the back of a tortoise? Why does everyone tell me this? This can't be true!"
"Tell that to the mariners," said Didactylos. "Everyone who's ever sailed the Rim Ocean knows of the uses of plants," said Didactylos. "And one which old Orinjcrates neglected to notice, too. Well done. Show him Philo's Bestiary, Urn."Another scroll unrolled. There were dozens of Pictures of animals, thousands of unreadable words."But . . . pictures of animals . . . it's wrong . . . isn't it wrong to . . .""Pictures of just about everything in there," said Didactylos.Art was not permitted in Omnia."And this is the book Didactylos wrote," said Urn.