Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 10, 2025
Travis thought he would flee from the eyes of the sleepers throughout his dreams that night, but on the contrary he slept heavily, finding it hard to rouse when Jil-Lee awakened him for his watch. But he was alert when he saw a four-footed shape flit out of the shadows, drink water from the stream, and shake itself vigorously in a spray of drops. "Naginlta!" he greeted the coyote. Trouble?
"Against a mixed-up Redax broadcast, you mean!" Jil-Lee exclaimed. "Yes, but you stay here, younger brother. This is a risky climb, and you are not yet strong." Travis was forced to accede to that, waiting as Manulito and Lupe climbed up to the tear and entered. At least Buck and Deklay's experience had forewarned them and they would be prepared for the weird ghosts haunting the interior.
After seeing that," his chin indicated the slit and what lay behind it "do you wish the Reds to forage here?" "Still," Buck's words came slowly, "this is a choice between two evils, rather than between an evil and a good " "Then let us see how powerful this evil is!" Jil-Lee headed for the corridor leading to the pillar.
"But you say that the camp of your people lies well out in the plains " Jil-Lee was up on one knee, using the field glasses they had brought from the stores of the wrecked ship. He passed them along to Travis. There was nothing to be sighted but the rippling amber waves of the tall grasses, save for an occasional break of a copse of trees near the foothills.
"If these Reds depend upon their machine to control what they seek, then they may be taken by surprise " "But not yet!" Travis spoke sharply. Nolan frowned at him. Jil-Lee chuckled. "The way is not so dark for us, younger brother, that we need your torch held for our feet!" Travis swallowed back any retort, accepting the fairness of that rebuke.
He was surprised when Jil-Lee put out his palm up as if to warn the younger man. "Take care, younger brother! This is not a lucky business. And remember, if one goes too far down a wrong trail, there is sometimes no returning " "We shall wait on the other side of the pass for one day," Nolan added. "Then " he shrugged "where you go will be your own affair."
The Apache made a similar gesture, and Jil-Lee and Buck, their own weapons well in sight, came out to back him. Travis knew that the Tatar had no way of knowing that the three were alone; he well might have believed an unseen troop of Apaches were near-by and so armed. "You would talk then talk!" Menlik ordered. This time Travis outlined events with an absence of word embroidery.
But what if they come across the mountains, perhaps driving the Tatars before them to do their fighting ?" "And you believe that if you find weapons in these towers, you will know how to use them?" Jil-Lee asked. "What will give you that knowledge, younger brother?" "I do not claim such knowledge," Travis countered.
This place had been set up with a single purpose: to protect and preserve the ancient rulers of Topaz. And perhaps the very presence here of the intruding Terrans had released a force, started an unseen installation. Now Travis answered simply: "They want out...." Jil-Lee glanced back at the slit door, but Buck still watched Travis. "They call?" he asked. "In a way," Travis admitted.
That ndendai enemy people have marked this as their land?" Jil-Lee questioned. "That may be true, but now I hunt for what this world was at one time, the reason why the ancient star men marked it as their own." "And this knowledge may be of value to us?" Jil-Lee asked slowly. "Will it bring food to our mouths, shelter for our bodies mean life for us?" "All that is possible.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking