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Updated: June 26, 2025
Then the Antelope spake in a silver-ringing voice, saying, 'What is it, O my brothers? They answered, 'Thou knowest we dare not attempt interchange of speech with Aklis, seeing that we disobeyed him in visiting the kingdoms of the earth: so it is for thee to question him as to the object of this youth, and it is the Shaving of Shagpat. So she said, ''Tis well; I wot of it.
By the gall of the Roc! it is well for thee thou camest armed with potent spells, and hadst one to advise and inspirit thee, or thou wouldst have stayed here to people Aklis, and grazed in a strange shape. Now, the seven waxed in impatience, and he laid their hands upon his head and moved from them with Abarak, to where in the dusk the elephant that had brought them stood.
While he was proceeding to recount the story of his search for the Sword, they said, 'Enough, O potentate of the braying class and of the scratching tribe! we have seen thee through the eye of Aklis since the time of thy first thwacking. What says the poet? "A day for toil and a day for rest Gives labour zeal, and pleasure zest."
She said, 'On our way to Aklis. She bade him grasp the Lily, and follow her; and he followed her down the rock and over the bright shells upon the sand, admiring her stateliness, her willowy lightness, her slimness as of the palm-tree.
Thereupon he hurried the youth yet faster across the dark lawns of Aklis toward the passage of the Seventh Pillar, by which the twain had entered that kingdom.
Surely the dragon-fly that darteth all day in the blaze over pools is like what they were. Abarak bit his forefinger and said, 'Who be ye, O sons of brilliance? They answered, 'Karavejis and Veejravoosh, slaves of the Sword. Then he said, 'Come with us now, O slaves of the Sword, and help us to the mountain of outer Aklis.
Upon that, he ran up rapidly to the summit of the mountain and drew the Sword from his girdle, and leaned it toward Aklis, and it lengthened out over lands, the blade of it a beam of solid brilliance.
And this Sword swayed by thee, and with thy skill and strength and the hardihood of hand that is thine, wullahy! 'twould shear him now, this moment, taking the light of Aklis for a lather. Shibli Bagarag knotted the brows of impatience, crying, 'Hast thou forgotten Karaz in thy calculations?
Then the Queen cried angrily, ''Tis well thou hadst wit to close the shell, O Noorna, or there would have been delay indeed. Say, is not the road to Aklis through my palace? And it is the road thousands travel. So Noorna bin Noorka said, 'O Queen, this do they; but are they of them that reach Aklis?
Then the thought of his betrothed Noorna, and her beauty, and the words, 'Remember the seventh pillar, struck the heart of Shibli Bagarag, and he exclaimed passionately, 'Is she in safety? Noorna, my companion, my betrothed, netted by thee, O Abarak! Abarak answered sharply, 'Speak not of betrothals in this place, or the sword of Aklis will move without a hand!
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