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CHILDREN OF THE STONES

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Dai! Dai!

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Matt? Matt?
Matt!

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- Hello, Matt!
- Dad!

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Now what happened?
Have you got any idea of what happened?

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Matt, it's important. Do you remember
how you came to be outside?

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Dad...

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Matt, this is doctor Lyle,
he helped me carry you in.

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Now it's very important that
you tell him what happened.

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Watch this, will you, Matt.
Follow it all the way.

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You see.
Now all the way back again.

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Good. I don't think there's anything
permanently wrong with you, young man.

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But I'll look back in the
morning just to be sure.

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Thank you doctor.

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Dad, what happened?

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That's what I want to know, old boy.

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And what were you doing down here,
you were supposed to've been in bed.

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- It was Dai...
- Go on...

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He...
I came down...

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...and I heard this...
chanting sound...

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Yes, but go on, Matt

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Then...
I don't know...

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I was flung against the stone...

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and as I touched it...
I felt this terrible pain.

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- Like an electric shock?
- Yes.

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What then?

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I don't rememer.
I really don't.

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It's important he gets
a good night's sleep.

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- See that he takes these.
- Right.

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Matthew...
Your father found you on the doorstep.

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Did you fall, do you remember?

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That's a nasty bump you've
got on your head there.

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You really ought to try and
find out how you came by it.

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- I'm afraid I can't help.
- Now, but relax.

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But if you'll take my
advice, Matthew,

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you won't go rushing around in
the middle of the night again.

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Next time it might be something
worse than concussion.

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Thank you for your help, doctor.

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I am only too glad for the exercise.

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These villagers, they're
all so damned healthy.

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I never get a call.

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I came here for semi-retirement
after a heart attack,

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but I didn't expect to be totally ignored.

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Well, we'll keep you busy
for a couple of days.

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Goodbye.

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Good night, doctor.

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Thank you, Mrs. Crabtree.
That smells delicious.

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Yes?
- The boy, who is he?

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- He is going to be alright.
- Good.

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Hey, wait a minute!

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Oh, morning Matt, how do you feel?
- It was Dai.

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- Some man wanted to know how you were.
- Yes, it was Dai.

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- Well, who is Dai?
- He said he was a friend.

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Sit.

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Now, do you want to eat?
- Yes.

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Was he the man that tied the
handkerchief around your head?

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Could have been, dad.
Told you.

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The last thing I remember is
of people standing in a circle.

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- Mrs. Crabtree?
- Yes sir?

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One invalid breakfast, please.

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Poor dear,
how do you feel this morning?

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Matt, Mrs. Crabtree
asked you how you felt.

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Alright, bit of the head.
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I'm not surprised.
It's hard stuff, stone.

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- Which stone?
- The doorstep.

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That's where you fell, wasn't it?
- Was it?

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Well... what would you like then,
some nice scrambled egg?

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Yes, anything.

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That wasn't very polite.

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She was there, dad.
Part of the circle.

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You sure?
You shouldn't dream it?

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You found me on the doorstep,
did you dream that?

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You could have been sleepwalking.

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You don't understand.
It happened, just as I said.

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The painting coming to life,
did that happen too?

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- Yes!
- Right. Now don't get upset.

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What you saw is probably some
traditional local ceremony.

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Lots of villages around here have ancient
rites and rituals that they perpetuate,

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even though their
origins are totally lost.

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You don't understand, dad.

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It wasn't just a Morris dance
or a village sing-song.

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The people in the circle were...
I don't know...

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...possessed.

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Hi.
I want to ask you something.

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- Happy day.
- Not here.

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What's that all about?

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New people having to stick together.

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What do you mean?

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You said that when we first met.

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- Well, we do.
- Okay, why?

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- For protection.
- Protection? Protection against what?

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I don't know, really.

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You told Kevin I must be human,
because I had only just arrived.

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That's right.

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So after people have been here for a while,

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they aren't human anymore,
like those children in there.

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Yes. Something seems to happen to them.

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I don't know what it is,
but something seems to happen.

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- They change?
- Oh, you must have noticed.

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Some of us is normal, and
the rest are "happy ones".

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- Yes.
- But they don't seem happy.
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Oh, I know, they always behave well,

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never loose their tempers,
always shine in class,

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but they're like...
- ...zombies.

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Yes. Robots, puppets.

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Come on, we'd better go.

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There's a man called Dai, do you know him?

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The poacher?
He's potty, I think.

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Always trying to warn me,
telling me to be careful.

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He told me, if I ever needed sanctuary,
I could go to him for help.

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No! If we ever need help,
we should go to the sanctuary.

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The sanctuary, of course.

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Linnet Barrow.
Dai lives there.

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- How far is it?
- At the end of the avenue.
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Outside the circle?

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Well, it's outside the village, I suppose.

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But it's still... well it's
still within the stones,

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though it's not really inside the circle.

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It's like some terrible nightmare.

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It's having a traumatic effect on Matt.

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Could it be Milbury as it was?

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Why not? There's certainly
an uncanny resemblance.

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The stones, the hill...
Yes...

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There are less stones
in the picture of course.

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The incomplete circle.

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But there's the avenue,
leading to the sanctuary,

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the head of the solar serpent.

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Certainly could be Milbury.

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So if the subject is real,

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it's likely the story it tells
has some real significance.

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- It's a reasonable assumption.
- The question is what?

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A brilliant source of light

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that appears to have the power
to turn people to stone,

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and a man and a boy escaping
towards the sanctuary.

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Some pagan superstition, perhaps.

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The beginning is a ritual,

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and the ending is... terrifying.

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We're lucky we live in this century.

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Oh, I don't know.
there's a lot we don't understand.

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Matthew said he saw a ring
of people holding hands.

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That echoes the painting again.

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I suppose he could have dreamt it,
but he seemd very sure.

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A ring of people, holding hands?

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I didn't know they did that here.
- Did what?

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Well, it's known as
"clipping the church".

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The parisioners clasp hands and walk
around it in a clockwise direction,

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with the sun, and then advance
and retreat three times.

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It's an old custom,
it's something to do with

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renewing one's faith by binding
minds and souls together.

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But it doesn't make sense here.
- Why not here?

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Well the church is deconsecrated,

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it's in the gift of the marrow,
it hasn't had an incumbent for years.

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Yes, but according to Matthew, those
people were nowhere near the church.
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Now you're all new to Milbury,
and to the school.

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and it may be some time before you're able
to move to the high table with the others.

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In the meantime, I thought a little
extra work would do you no harm.

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Although I'm as sorry as you are
that it will cut into the weekend.

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That's why I was dropped from
the football, it's her fault.

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This, for instance, is the standard
you will eventually take.

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This is the weekend prep
for the rest of the class.

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No good asking if any of you
could attempt to prove it.

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- Please, miss.
- Yes, Jimmer?

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That'd be a special case of
the Hilbert transform, miss?

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Splendid!

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Now... Would you like
to show us your proof?
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Bravo!

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We're going to have to make room
for you on the table, aren't we.

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It seems you finally made
the breakthrough at last.

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Extraordinary!

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Extraordinary good, or extraordinary bad?

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Hang on a minute.
Careful.

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Stone acting as a magnet!
Well it's not possible!

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How much do you know
about magnetic fields?

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Teach me, professor.
I know the Earth has one.

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So do rocks.
Normally the Earth's magnetic field

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is in aligment with that of the rocks,

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at the time the stratum was formed.

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And there aren't?
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No, these are in alignment with
the Earth's present magnetic field.

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Which means...?

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Which means there's
only one possible solution.

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Some tremendous energy has passed
through these stones. Very recently.

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I don't get it.

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Yesterday a dumdum, today he's
doing tricks on the blackboard.

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What happened in between?

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The same that happened
to the rest of them.

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And what's that?

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Whatever it is, I don't
want it to happen to me.

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What about bright boy here?

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You think that's a treatment will look
Einstein look like a no-no, won't you?

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Treatment? Is that what you think
Jimmo got, some kind of treatment?

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Don't ask.

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If it is a treatment,
who gives it, and why?

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We'll just have to wait and see.

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- What do you mean?
- It's obvious.

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There's only us three left.
It's just a question of who'se next.

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Then we must stick together,
and pair notes whenever we can.

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Then no-one can take us by surprise.
- Right.

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- Dai!
- It had to be done!

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- What?
- The shock treatment.

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I had to get you away from there.

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Didn't you see?
Didn't you realize what it was?

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- So it was you.
- Your saviour I am.
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- Saved me from what?
- The past.

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That past, that's what it was.
My past.

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And your future.
- I don't understand.

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I let you in a secret, boy, and I know I...

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Dai?
You do understand.

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You understand something,
which is more than we do.

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I've got feelings, which is quite
different from understanding.

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- What do you feel?
- What do I feel?

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I feel...
death.

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No, no, no...
ghosts and that.

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Something...

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happened here in the past,
and it's happening again today.

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Any idea what?

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- Everyone turned to stone.
- Go on!

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Go on, boy, explain yourself.

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I have a picture, a very old
painting, it's of Milbury.

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It shows people turn into stone.

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You mean all those stones
out there might be people?

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- Petrified...!
- It's more complicated than that.

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Bigger...
like a maze, it is...

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And at the centre... treasure!
- Treasure...

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- But there's this danger too...
- What kind of danger?

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If I knew that, we could avoid it,
couldn't we, but we can't.

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You say there's treasure here.
What treasure?

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The most priceless treasure of all...
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Knowledge.
- Knowledge?

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- What do you make of that?
- What is it? Where did you get it?

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It's mine. I found it.

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It... came to me...

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Your father would be interested in that.

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Dad?
It's more in your mum's line, isn't it?

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Yes! Shall I show it to her?
To my mother?

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It's mine. I found it.
It came to me.

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Dai, we won't take it.

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We make a tracing.
- Yes.

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That's what we'll do. We'll copy it.

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Yes, like a brass rubbing.
I'll get the stuff.

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It's a... key...
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Yes,
that's what it is...

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My key...

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The original is made of clay, you say?

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Either that or some kind of stone.

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It looked very old.
- Yes.

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- A snake...
- A serpent.

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Or cobra, what's the difference?

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They all give me the shudders.

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A serpent's bigger and more powerful.

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It's also a symbol.
- A symbol of what?

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Well, it was originally the guardian
of knowledge, but later,

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serpents were supposed to
protect sacred hills and mazes.

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Dai knew that.
He said something about the village
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being like a maze,
with treasure at the centre.

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And the treasure was knowledge.

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Dai? Well how did he know?

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He didn't know, mum, he just felt it.

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And the danger in the maze may
have been this shucky snake thing.

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Ah yes, of course.
Dai's feelings are remarkably accurate.

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This symbol has a special
significance here.

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The church! There's a carving
of a serpent on the font!

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- It's biting the foot of a bishop.
- I told you what that meant, remember?

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It represents the battle
between pagan and christian.

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Yes, that's right.
You see, After the battle was ovened,

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the christians built their churches
on the sites of pagan temples.

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Within ground that was already sacred.

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But they couldn't
be absolutely sure

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that the ancient religion had
been completely stamped out.

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So the carving on the font was
probably intended as a warning.

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- A warning?
- Yes, to be constantly on their guard.

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- Against the power of the serpent!
- That's right.

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Then this thing of Dai's, whatever it is, is pagan.

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There's no doubt about that.

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Some sort of amulet, to keep
the owner from harm, perhaps.

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I'd love to see the original.
Could you get it for me?

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- Adam?
- Mr. Hendrick?

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- I've been looking for you.
- Oh, what have I done?

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First things first.
What will you have?

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No no, let me please.
Two large whiskeys, would you.

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- I was told there was a telegram for you.
- Oh?

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- I promised to deliver it.
- Thank you.

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Will you excuse me...

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Not bad news, I hope.

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No, no, it's from California.
Mount Palomar observatory.

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They're doing some research for me,
it's in reply to a telegram of my own.

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- Research about Milbury?
- Yes.

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Well I wondered what the stones of the
circle were all pointing at up there.

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As far as I could work out, they form
no alignment with the sun nor the moon

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or any of the other major planets or stars.
Just didn't seem to make sense.

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- But now it does.
- In a way, yes.
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According to this, it's aligned
to a supernova which exploded

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centuries before christ,
about the start of our existance.

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There's nothing there now
but a black hole.

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That's a huge mass of imploding energy.

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- I could have told you that.
- Let's go and sit down.

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What do you know about the supernova?

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It's unfair. I should've introduced
myself properly when we first met.

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Of course...
Hendrick's supernova.

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You discovered ithe black hole.
Rafael Hendrick, the astronomer.

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Ex-astronomer. I resigned my
chair in Cambridge five years ago.

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Yes, I always wondered why.

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Because of some papers, I suppose.

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May I ask what papers?

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They were given to me by a colleague...
Written in dog latin,

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the style earlier than Bede's.
About sixth century.

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A mishmash of fact and fiction
about megalithic Britain.

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Legends and stories
handed down through the centuries,

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which the author had picked up.
No-one had ever paid much account to it.

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Like so much of that
stuff at the Ashmolean.

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None of the stories
were authenticated, but...

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there was one event which because
of my discovery of the black hole,

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made me sit up and take notice.
- What was that?

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Someone in the village,
"Weal Weka" as it was then called,

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was reported by bardic tradition
as having seen a star explode.

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So that's why you settled in
Milbury, because somebody

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had actually witnessed the
beginning of the black hole?

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It was my coming home.

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- Even though there's nothing there?
- The black hole's there.

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Gravitational forces so powerful
they're beyond our comprehension.

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I meant nothing we can see.

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Well that's what's so intriguing,
don't you think?

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To know it's there,
and yet not be able to see it.

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I'm afraid at the moment my
interests are more earthbound.

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You know which
constellation it's in?

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- Ursula Major.
- The great bear.

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And you know, for early man the
bear was an object of veneration.

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The bear cult is probably
as old as any other religion.

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Are you suggesting it was started

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by the primitive cave dweller
who saw your supernova explode?

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Primitive cave dweller?
I think you do him an injustice.

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According to legend, he was a visionary.

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A spiritual leader.
A man of destiny.

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I beg his pardon.

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I think you might be
well advised to do so.

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It's not all that serious, is it?

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You see that man there?
The one with the white hair?

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- Yes.
- That's Tom Browning.

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The farmer who invited
doctor Lyle and me for supper

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the night we were all
newcomers, remember?

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- I remember.
- I know Mr. Browning, he's Jimmo's father.

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It's the first time he's taken
part in one of these occasions.

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- So unlike him?
- He was so contemptuous of them.

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He said they were an anachronism,
a complete waste of time.

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He's obviously changed his mind,
he's having the time of his life!

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Happy day!

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- Look...
- It's Jimmo!