That night the two gods mocking at their worshippers mocked not at
Shaun nor his three followers, who coming to the plain still travelled
on till they came at last to a place where the eyes of Shaun at night
could closely see the vast form of their god. And beyond them as far as
the sky there lay a marsh. There they rested, building such shelters as
they could, and said to one another:

"This is the End, for Shaun discerneth that there are no more gods, and
before us lieth the marsh and old age hath come upon us."

And since they could not labour to build a temple, Shaun carved upon a
rock all that he saw by starlight of the great god of the plain; so
that if ever others forsook the gods of Old because they saw beyond
them the Greater Three, and should thence come to knowledge of the
Twain that mocked, and should yet persevere in wisdom till they saw by
starlight him whom Shaun named the Ultimate god, they should still find
there upon the rock what one had written concerning the end of search.
For three years Shaun carved upon the rock, and rising one night from
carving, saying:

"Now is my labour done," saw in the distance four greater gods beyond
the Ultimate god. Proudly in the distance beyond the marsh these gods
were tramping together, taking no heed of the god upon the plain. Then
said Shaun to his three followers:

"Alas that we know not yet, for there be gods beyond the marsh."

None would follow Shaun, for they said that old age must end all
quests, and that they would rather wait there in the plain for Death