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Updated: June 8, 2025
"Come with me, my Holly," and, followed by the main body of the horsemen, she rode a little way into the river, and there waited until the shattered troops had fallen back upon us. Oros whispered to me "It is madness, the Hesea will be slain." "Thinkest thou so?" I answered.
Now she lifted her sceptre and the chant ceased. In the midst of the following silence, she rose from her seat and gliding down its steps, came to where Leo stood and touched him on the forehead with her sistrum, crying in a loud, sweet voice "Behold the Chosen of the Hesea!" whereon all that audience echoed in a shout of thunder "Welcome to the Chosen of the Hesea!"
She looks at the shaven priest; she laughs as though in triumph; she points to the westering sun and to the river, and is gone. Aye, and that laugh of long ago is echoed by Atene at our side, for she also laughs in triumph and cries aloud to the old Shaman "True diviners were my heart and thou! Behold how I won him in the past." Then, like ice on fire fell the cold voice of the Hesea.
"Lady," I said blandly, "am I also a magician?" "Aye," she answered, "I think that you are, and that you have a mistress who dwells in fire." "Then, Khania," I said, "such servants and such mistresses are ill to meddle with. Say, what answer has the Hesea sent to your report of our coming to this land?" "Listen," broke in Leo before she could reply.
Should the Khania Atene attempt to detain them against their will, then raise the Tribes upon her in the name of the Hesea; depose her from her seat, conquer her land and hold it. Hear and obey." "Mother, we hear and we will obey," answered Oros and Papave as with a single voice.
Then we began to speak with hope and fear of that mysterious Hesea who had sent the letter from the Mountain, commanding the Shaman Simbri to meet us: the priestess or spirit whom he declared was "mighty from of old" and had "servants in the earth and air."
"Aye, speak! speak!" said Leo, "for know I am in sore suspense. I also am bewildered by memories and rent with hopes and fears." And I too echoed, "Speak!" "Leo Vincey," asked the Hesea, after she had thought awhile, "whom dost thou believe me to be?" "I believe," he answered solemnly, "that thou art that Ayesha at whose hands I died of old in the Caves of Kor in Africa.
We wondered whether the man from beyond the mountains was as good as his word and had brought down the vengeance of that priestess called the Hesea upon the community which sheltered him. Also we wondered ah! how we wondered who and what this Hesea might be.
The Hesea paused, and we saw her frame shake as though beneath some fearful inward effort of the will. "Look now behind you," she cried, throwing her arms wide. We turned, and at first saw nothing save the great curtain of fire that rose from the abyss of the volcano, whereof, as I have told, the crest was bent over by the wind like the crest of a breaking billow.
"To the Hesea of the College on the Mountain, known as Ayesha upon earth, and in the household of the Over-world whence she has been permitted to wander, as 'Star-that-hath-fallen " "A pretty sounding name, forsooth," broke in Ayesha; "ah! but, Atene, set stars rise again even from the Under-world. Read on, thou Oros." "Greetings, O Ayesha.
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