Merlin calls the thunder over Camelot

No bridge of causes leads to the timeline recorded here. The atlas files it among the fables, where the question is not how but what then. Camelot is a hill fort of oak and turf in Britain, around the year 500. Forty nights the Saxons have pressed it. The gate is splinters. Two wells run brown. On the last wall an old counselor named Myrddin lifts his hands to a black storm. He asks the sky for a champion. The lightning does not become a dragon. It becomes a made thing of grey iron, four legs, one glass eye, and a spine of copper wire that steams in the rain.