Old Ruins (short story)

 was the eighth and final story in the anthology In Time.

Plot
On an expedition unauthorised by the university, the seventy-year-old Benny enters a cave on Matryoshka with Perce, searching for three Matryoshkan masks. She finds one of them, but the chamber fills with water.

The eighty-two-year-old Benny heads into the Matryoshkan cave system with eight students, whose parents have paid for the trip at Perce's suggestion, to find the second mask. They find it on an altar carved into a glacier and Benny sends the students back when the ice begins to crack. She plunges into the crevasse.

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Characters

 * Bernice Summerfield
 * Percival Lovelady
 * Alees
 * Chaniak
 * Deming
 * Memmerdine
 * Garzeni
 * Tai-gon-lahr
 * Zangor
 * Oshra
 * Fincher
 * Irving Braxiatel

Continuity

 * Bernice says that she once knew someone whose father had cellars of Draconian brandy. (AUDIO: Everybody Loves Irving)