/authors/phantom/ Recent content in Phantom on Utopia Stories Library Hugo en-us /stories/56732/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 /stories/56732/ <p><em><strong>Author's Note:</strong> It&rsquo;s the classic story; boy meets girl, boy gets imprisoned by a fantastical empire, both get framed, and the two of them are punished by being used as guardians in a tomb. Such is the life of the adventurer.</em></p> <p>It hung in the air, its supporting base invisible in the soft light. It was a globe, as though filled with moonlight and hung before them in a net of frosted stars; its hundreds of facets each shone individually. The temple&rsquo;s dust had not marred it, the sand and sun&rsquo;s only effect the reflection of more and more light onto its sparkling frame.</p>