title: Two Moons Rising
author:  Ernest Solar 
description: Ernest Solar has been a writer, storyteller, and explorer of some kind for his entire life. He grew up devouring comic books, novels, and any other type of book, along with movies, which allowed him to explore a multitude of universes packed with mystery and adventure. A professor at Mount St. Marys University in Maryland, he lives with his wife and family in Lovettsville, Virginia.
zlib_text: `Cradle`
  
  `by: Arthur C. Clarke`
  
  `& Gentry Lee`
  
  ` `
  
  `THE emerald water smashes against the dark volcanic cliffs. Fine white spray
  hovers over the harsh rock creating a misty veil that glimmers in the fading
  light. In the distance, two yellow suns set simultaneously, separated by about
  forty degrees as they disappear together below the horizon. Across the blue-
  black sky, on the opposite side of the isthmus that slopes gently downward
  from the volcanic cliffs to another ocean, a pair of full moons rise as the
  two suns vanish. Their twin moonlight, although much weaker than the shine of
  the disappearing suns, is still strong enough to create dancing moon shadows
  on the ocean beneath the rocky overhang.`
  
  ` As the dual moons rise on the eastern side of the isthmus, light begins to
  glow on the horizon beside them, about twenty degrees to the south. At first
  the glow looks like the light of a distant city, but with each passing moment
  it brightens until it spreads across the sky. At leng