The queen nods and has the workers bring the tome close and she begins to read. And she won't stop unless he asks it of her. She taps out a story telling of sudden environmental changes, with large structures causing earth shakes and carving through the earth deep down. In fact, there are a lot of deep description, using their units of measurement for when they saw the things, which was very rarely. Clearly whatever had done the damage were massive, even on a human scale.

Meanwhile rains are reported as changing, with their fall causing more plant damage, destroying plants and breaking down rock with a touch. This process is actually detailed over many years of records. One large metal thing cut up through the place that the Queen describes as the Quarry, where in the ground was emptied. Then a great rock fell from the ground and struck there. After that great metal structures like spiders arrived and shaped the stone into buildings like were there now.

All of this was the work of many years, and they even had records distressed contact from other plantkin. Meanwhile new plants are put in, and the great trees started to grow. The Barrys records indicated attempts to strike at these changes and take down the plants, and were attacked by the great metal spiders. They went into hiding for several years, noting only small changes for the life time of a fearful queen.

And then, at last, they moved out again, and there were large furry animals wandering around. They did not seem intelligent and did not communicate. There was war, but the creatures were capable of things the Barrys could not happen so they went again into hiding until great metal forms came from the sky and the animals left.

The whole telling takes nearly the rest of the day, with Workers clearly skipping quickly through records to find ones relevant to Dustin so the Queen could read them out without pause.

[Those are all of the stories of the time of the change. I can have our records searched for still more.]