High up the Hip they stood, two Blue Knights, The Sphinx and Sheba.
Look, said the Sphinx, I can feel it with my eyes and heart and bones and blood, the incessant creeping of the darkness. Come in here to crush all our rights and freedoms, with lies, insinuations and power games, not to mention bombs and guns. I shall go there where it is darkest, where the lies stand shoulder to shoulder and lay about me with mighty claws, nowish. Then she moved to go there.
That is all well and, but look now how the darkness laps at the very base of the Hill of a Woman and surrounds our positioning. It will see you coming and thicken at the very roads and exits from our vantage, spoke Sheba.
How bout I let you down with my hair as a rope, down the cliff of the waist and belly of this Hill of a Woman, so that you might take surprise and unexpected of them at all.
That is a grand plan with fine ideas in it, spoke the voice Sphinx, I will descend at first light, I shall go now to a quiet place to sharpen my mind and my claws. She left the company a short distance over the Hip.
The Knights were also and going down to climb the hair rope to go as well and also made good their armour and armament with all swords and a morning star, sharper and more pointy.
I shall remain upon the Hill, said Sheba, to hold the fort and I will let down my hair when you want to reascend from darkness to the light, for some respite and light refreshment from this war on darkness.
When the night had done its pass by and the stars had skimmed around their wheel of sky, the Sphinx and the two Blue Knights, full armed into the teeth, claws and spears and swords, climbed down the longness of Sheba’s hair, down across the belly of the Hill of a Woman and came in surprise and shocking. They came behind a line of lies which held each other in support as a skein of untruth. These were hard to see or make out clear, being there was no face and yet a face appeared but then a mask, and then just.
The Sphinx said in quiet to the knights, I shall rip through their flimsy facades whilst you may reveal them to the light of your spears in it.
Enlightenment ensued, clearing the webs that the sun’s rays might pierce the dark and the swords of the wind might cut away.
A cup, a spirit, a tree, a breeze, a dance, a dance around the mountain.
Now the forces of untruth gathered about the skirts of the Hill of a Woman making a dance to undo all that had been made good. The Knights and the Sphinx fought hard and a circle of light was around them but they could not and it seemed their was doomed to gallant failure, when in the West came a wind to blow and the Sun came then to burn and the Ice froze everywhere and then, the clincher, a great army of Penguins rolled in from the away with their Empress at the fore, and their cries of More Ice, More Fish, came ringing down the wind, till all the darkness was quashed and they could all relax.
The Guardians of the Cave 