The City of the Black Moon (short story)

The City of the Black Moon was a Blind Atlas short story by Simon Bucher-Jones. It referenced the Order of the White Peacock from The Book of the War as well as Malachi Yarrow, who would later appear in Bucher-Jones' The Book of the Enemy.

Summary
In 1968, Professor N. Wagstaff translates the scroll "The Yarrow of the White Peacock". The scroll's eleventh aphorism, "The City", describes the City of the Black Moon, named for the material of its foundation: the crashed moon that predated the new one. It sits on the edge of a great chasm.

The trees ringing the chasm are like "the eyelashes of that great eye that lies in the heart of the world", and the wind moving through the trees makes noises like the cries of dragons. Rarely, travellers come and seek the thousand steps which spiral downwards into the void; each must leave a finger hanging on a tree branch like a windchime.

Characters

 * N. Wagstaff

Continuity

 * The scroll is entitled "The Yarrow (PROSE: Subjective Interlock, et al.) of the White Peacock". (PROSE: The Book of the War, Subjective Interlock, et al.)
 * A great eye lies at the heart of the world. (PROSE: Head of State)