cabin-scene

Updated: May 13, 2025

Twice already in that cabin-scene, as also on the deck when Stahl had seized him the moment had come close. Now, again, had he kept hold of the boy's grasp, that inner transformation, which should later become externalized, must have completed itself. "No, no!" he tried to cry aloud, "for I'm not yet ready!" But his voice rose scarcely above a whisper.

Algernon Blackwood - The Centaur