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The roof was high above their heads, and six men could have walked side by side. Leehallfae was visibly weakening. Ae dragged aerself along slowly and painfully, with sunken head. Maskull caught hold of aer. "You can't go on like that. Better let me take you back." The phaen smiled, and staggered. "I'm dying." "Don't talk like that. It's only a passing indisposition.
As he continued staring into those strange, archaic eyes, he had an intuitive feeling that her lover was no other than Shaping himself. It came to him that the design of this love was not the continuance of the race but the immortality on earth of the individual. No children were produced by the act; the lover aerself was the eternal child. Further, ae sought like a man, but received like a woman.
Maskull obeyed, and laid aer down at full length on the rocky ground. The phaen raised aerself with difficulty on one arm, and stared with fast-glazing eyes at the mystic landscape. Maskull looked too, and what he saw was a vast, undulating plain, lighted as if by the moon but there was of course no moon, and there were no shadows. He made out running streams in the distance.
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