In the audience watching the Games were all four of the kings, including those of the Sea and Sky Kingdoms. During the Games, the two kings engaged in polite conversation but, curiously, the subject of the Chinese splashdown never came up.

After Jack had dropped off Wally at his home in the desert, Wally had quickly packed up his stuff and moved to new isolated location.

Wally Ferguson—outback loner, zombie satellite hunter, lost soul—remained a quirky figure. His posts on online astronomy noticeboards continued although no-one knew from where.

That said, he did leave one other mark on the world.

He didn’t know it, but in the years since he’d seen her, Lily West had become a devoted lover of classical music.

Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Debussy, Schubert, Stravinsky, Brahms: she enjoyed them all and had ever since that afternoon at Wally’s farm back in 2006 when old Wally had played ‘Hooked on Classics’ for her.

THE END

THE MYSTERIOUS ALTAR ON THE MOON
WILL BE EXPLORED FURTHER IN
THE TWO LOST MOUNTAINS