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Updated: June 3, 2025
I looked up and my whole heart relieved itself in a long deep sigh of ecstasy! it was Aselzion himself who bent over me, Aselzion whose grave blue eyes watched me with earnest and anxious solicitude. I smiled up at him in response to his wordless questioning as to how I felt, and would have risen but that he imperatively signed to me to lie still.
Gradually I became aware that what I was reading was intended for my instruction, and that the book itself was a gift to me from Aselzion if I proved a 'faithful student. A thrill of hope and gratitude began to relieve the cold weight upon my heart, and I suddenly resolved that I would not listen to any more voices, even if they spoke again. "Rafel Santoris is not dead!"
The world and its conventions will hold you " "Never!" I exclaimed, passionately "Aselzion, I will not fail!" He looked earnestly in my face then laid his hands on my head in a mute blessing, and signed to me to pass into my turret room. I obeyed. He closed the door upon me instantly I heard the key turn in the lock and then just the faint echo of his retreating footsteps down the winding stair.
Aselzion and his disciples had vanished, noiselessly, as though they had never been present. Only the Cross and Star still remained glittering against its dark purple background darting out long tremulous rays, some of which were pale violet, others crimson, others of the delicate hues of the pink topaz.
It was quite sufficient for me, in fact I had not felt at any time the sensation of hunger. I began to wonder how long I had been a 'probationer' in the House of Aselzion? Days or weeks? I could not tell.
A folded paper fell out of this letter, it contained full instructions as to the way I should go on the journey I intended to make to the mysterious House of Aselzion and I was glad to find that I should not have to travel as far as I had at first imagined.
Then I at once reproached myself for allowing the merest suggestion of a complaint to enter my mind, for, after all, I was an uninvited guest in the House of Aselzion I was not wanted and I remembered the order that had been issued concerning me: 'The moment she desires to leave, every facility for departure is to be granted to her. I was much more afraid of this 'facility for departure' than I was of my present solitude, and I determined to look upon the whole adventure in the best and most cheerful light.
"I do not wish to live!" he said "I came here to study life, but not to learn how to keep it. I would lose it gladly for the merest trifle! For life is to me a bitter thing a hideous and inexplicable torment! Why should you, O Aselzion, teach us how to live long? Why not rather teach us how to die soon?" Aselzion's eyes were bent upon him with a grave and tender compassion.
A mirror in the room showed me my own face, happy and radiant, my own eyes bright and smiling, no care seemed to have left a trace on my features, and I was fully conscious of a perfect strength and health that made the mere act of breathing a pleasure. In a very short time I was ready to receive Aselzion, and I touched the bell he had indicated as a signal.
"With Aselzion there are no dead men" said another of the unseen speakers "They have merely passed into another living state. And according to his theories, lovers cannot be separated, even by what is called death, for long." "Poor comfort!" and with the words I heard a laugh of scornful mockery "The women who have loved Rafel Santoris would hardly thank you for it!"
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