Syth and Axe (part 6) : In the Hall of the Crystal Sage
Read part 1 here: https://parallaxrealms.blogspot.com/2024/04/bunyan-went-down-to-jersey-part-1.html Part 7: In the Hall of the Mountain King 1904 - Mount Shasta, California Brown looked down into the dark cave. “I’m not going in there.” “You call yourself a miner?” “That’s not a mining tunnel. I don’t know what that is, but it’s not a mine!” “Ah, ya coward. Get your hide down in the hole and see what’s in there. C’mon!” He lived with people calling him a coward, a liar, a fraud, a trickster. Yet JC Brown insisted that there, deep below the slopes of Mount Shasta, he found a cache of treasures beyond imagining - mighty shields, walls lined with gold, mummies ten feet tall. It was too deep to drag them free of that place. And so, thirty years later, against all opposition, he rallied a crew and sought to strike out on the several-hour drive back up to Mount Shasta to recover the artifacts. When everyone had assembled in Stockton, he vanished, apparently never to be heard