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Updated: June 18, 2025
I recognize in him one of my craft, a poet, tragic and taciturn of humor, and with a taste for melodramatic simile, . . marked you not the mixing of his word-colors in the picture he drew of Al-Kyris, foundering like a wrecked ship in a blood-red sea, whilst overhead trembled a white sky set thick with blackening stars?
Nay, but I forget! ... thou art a stranger in Al-Kyris, and therefore thou art ignorant of the last words spoken by the Sacred Oracle some hundred years or more ago. They are these: "'When the High Priestess Is the King's mistress Then fall Al-Kyris!
Khosrul's vibrating accent struck sharply across that muffled murmur. "The Poet and the People of Al-Kyris are further asunder than light and darkness!" he cried vehemently "For the Poet has been false to his high vocation, and the People trust in him no more!"
"How can I" then mused Theos disconsolately, "How can I make him believe that some undeclared evil threatens him, when he is at the very pinnacle of fame and fortune with all Al-Kyris at his feet? ... He would never listen to me, ... nor would any persuasions of mine induce him to leave the city where his name is so glorious and his renown so firmly established.
"Forgotten you? Forgotten Sah-luma? Impossible!" and her silvery laughter shook the air into little throbs of music. "When the greatest poet of the age is forgotten, then fall Al-Kyris! ... for there shall be no more need of kingdoms!"
An earthquake or land-slip would perhaps account sufficiently for everything, but then an inquiring mind would desire to know WHERE the earthquake or land-slip occurred, and also WHY these supposed far-off disturbances should thus curiously affect the river surrounding Al-Kyris?
There are strange powers at work! ... powers of the undug earth and unfathomed sea! ... hark how they tear at the stately foundations of Al-Kyris! ... Flame! flame! it is already kindled! it shall enwrap thee with more closeness than thy coronation robe, O mighty Sovereign! ... with more gloating fondness than the serpent- twining arms of thy beloved! Listen, Zephoranim, listen!"
Under the cloudless, star-patterned sky, in the soft, warm air that brimmed with the fragrance of roses, they drove once more together through the spacious streets of Al-Kyris streets that were now nearly deserted save for a few late passers-by whose figures were almost as indistinct and rapid in motion as pale, flitting shadows.
Fool thou must be, and breaker of the King's law, else thou hadst never dared to bask in such swine-like ease outside the gates of Al- Kyris the Magnificent!" Al-Kyris the Magnificent! What was the man talking about? Uttering a hasty exclamation, Alwyn staggered to his feet with an effort, and shading his eyes from the hot glare of the sun, stared bewilderedly at his interlocutor.
He smiled at the absurdity of the idea, and to change the drift of his own foolish fancies he asked suddenly, "Concerning this wondrous city of Al-Kyris...is it of very ancient days, and long lineage?"
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