(400-hundred years before the Great Flood) Armaros, beside him and below him was the deep well, it dropped down boundless it seemed, and there he stood by the winding staircase. And as he stared down into its blackness, it appeared to Armaros, that the end of this well that he stared into, perhaps even went deeper - a bottomless well beyond the crust of the earth, perhaps to the core, which is to say, he thought.