That is true. But nevertheless, you are like the prisoners in the cave, your legs and necks shackled by your maps and your walls so that all you can see is the shadows thrown by the fire on the wall of the cave. You think they are the truth, but they are only a shadow of the truth, which lies-" He gestured to the sky and the plain and the distant spiral curl that was the growing city of Sarai. "-out here, under the gaze of the sun and the moon and the stars.
( Kate Elliott )
[ The Novels of the Jaran: Jaran ]
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