The island of the Creators. From the cycle "Universe"

Jordano walked forward, to the place of her execution, looking for a familiar face in the crowd. The black stone that he squeezed in his hand seemed hot, ready to erupt with fire. Meeting a look with an old friend, Geordano quietly dropped a stone, who was immediately selected by a boy who ran past, and then disappeared among hundreds of people.
A fire below it flashed and slowly flared up. People were waiting for the screams of pain and fear, and he only looked into the emerald eyes of the Egyptian and saw in them not a reflection of the soul, but a whole world created by invisible monads. A smile touched Jordano"s face when a friend showed him a black stone, which they have been looking for so long.
decades will pass, and the stone will indicate the path to the truth that once disappeared in the flame