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Updated: June 5, 2025
"We mustn't stir up the city if we can help it; with giants running around, the people would get worked up to a frenzy. You could see that with Lylda this afternoon. Not that you can blame them altogether, but we want to get Loto back before we start anything here in Arite." He took the pellets out as he spoke, and they each touched one of them to the tip of their tongues.
The court-house of Arite, though a larger building, from the outside was hardly different than most others in the city. It was distinct, however, in having on either side of the broad doorway that served as its main entrance, a large square stone column. As they entered, passing a guard who saluted them respectfully, the visitors turned from a hallway and ascended a flight of steps.
But that he could speak, in the centre of Arite, after this morning, and that the people would listen " "It seems to me things are getting worse every minute," said the Big Business Man. Oteo spoke again. The Chemist translated. "The police did nothing. They simply stood and listened, but took no part." "Bad; very bad," repeated the old man, shaking his head.
The country here was crossed by a winding river running in a general way at right angles to my line of progress. At the right, near at hand, and on the nearer bank of the river, lay a little city, perhaps half the size of Arite, with its back up against a hill.
I must tell you now, gentlemen, that never for a moment during my stay in Arite was I once free from an awful dread of this return trip. I tried to conceive what it would be like, and the more I thought about it, the more hazardous it seemed. "You must realize, when I was growing smaller, coming in, I was able to climb down, or fall or slide down, into the spaces as they opened up.
"At my feet, hardly more than a few steps away, lay the tiny city of Arite and the lake. I could see all around the latter now, and could make out clearly a line of hills on the other side. Off to the left the road wound up out of sight in the distance.
Behind them, hardly more than a mile away, according to their present stature they had stopped growing entirely now lay the city of Arite. They could see completely across it and out into the country beyond. The lake, with whose shore they had been running parallel, was much closer to them. Ahead, up near the rim of the horizon, lay a black smudge. Aura pointed. "Orlog is there," she said.
But the main point now," he added seriously, "is for us to make sure of getting down to Arite as speedily as possible." The Very Young Man surveyed the barren waste around them in dismay. The floor of the valley was strewn with even larger rocks and bowlders than those on the surface above, and looked utterly pathless and desolate. "What do we do first?" he asked dubiously.
The real sky with its stars will be even then as far above us as your sky at Arite was above you." Aura breathed a long sigh. "It's too wonderful really to understand, isn't it?" she said. The Very Young Man pulled her down on the ground beside him. "The most wonderful part, Aura, is going to be having you up there."
"Yet they accept you without fear and they look to you and to me for help." "This morning, there at the court," said Lylda, "I heard them say that Targo spoke against you. Devils, he said, from the Great Blue Star, come here with evil for us all. And they believe him, some of them. It was for that perhaps they acted as they did before the court. In Arite now, many believe in Targo.
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