The Importance of Sunstones

The first chunky cracked off had nothing in it. The scanner gave the uninterrupted pattern of homogenous structure. On the 15th chunk he got an interruption pattern that told him that a sunstone or something, probably something, was inside. Some 50 million years ago, when the plan having called Zarathustra for the last 25, was young. There had existed a marine life form, something like a jellyfish. As these died, they had sunk into the sea bottom ooze. Sand had covered the ooze and pressed it tighter and tighter until it had become a glassy flint - little beans of dense stone. In his gems, they glowed from the wearer