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Updated: June 12, 2025
"Yolara," she said, "you have defied the Silent Ones, you have desecrated their abode, you came to slay these men who are the guests of the Silent Ones and me, who am their handmaiden why did you do these things?" "I came for him!" gasped the priestess; she pointed to O'Keefe. "Why?" asked Lakla. "Because he is pledged to me," replied Yolara, all the devils that were hers in her face.
Lakla shivered; gave a command. The frog-men moved about; peering here and there; lifting unseen folds revealing in stark rigidity torn form after form of the priestess's men. Lakla had been right her Akka were thorough fighters! She called, and to her came the frog-woman who was her attendant.
Her voice grew silk of silver merciless, cruel. "Now am I minded to send another answer to the Silent Ones. Yea! But not by you, Lakla; by these" she pointed to the frog-men, and, swift as light, her hand darted into her bosom, bringing forth the little shining cone of death.
It was a hydroid, a development of that strange animal-vegetable that, sometimes almost microscopic, waves in the sea depths like a cluster of flowers paralyzing its prey with the mysterious force that dwells in its blossom heads! "Put it down, Lakla," the distress in O'Keefe's voice was deep.
Well content!" He gripped our hands again. "We will fight!" he muttered. "Ja! And I will have vengeance!" The sternness returned; and with a salute Rador and he were gone. Two great tears rolled from the golden eyes of Lakla. "Not even the Silent Ones can heal those the Shining One has taken," she said. "He asked me and it was better that I tell him.
There's another thing" he hesitated, nervously "there's another thing that may startle you a bit when we meet up with Lakla her er frogs!" "Like the frog-woman we saw on the wall?" asked Olaf. "Yes," went on Larry, rapidly. "It's this way I figure that the frogs grow rather large where she lives, and they're a bit different too. Well, Lakla's got a lot of 'em trained.
But why, in going, did the thought come to me that from where the Three sat throned they ever watched the cavern mouth that was the door into their abode; and looked down ever into the unfathomable depth in which glowed and pulsed that mystic flower, colossal, awesome, of green flame that had seemed to me fire of life itself? The Wooing of Lakla
And when all was done, Lakla, Larry, and I made our way up to the scarlet stone that was the doorway to the chamber of the Three.
Further, here so far as I was able to discover, there were no malignant bacilli what immunity could Lakla have then to those microscopic evils without, which only long ages of sickness and death have bought for us a modicum of protection? I began to be oppressed. Surely they had been long enough by themselves. I went down the path. I heard Larry. "It's a green land, mavourneen.
Then Lakla bent toward me, and for the second time kissed me. "Come!" she said to Larry. Hand in hand they moved away, into the corridor that led to the door outside of which waited the Shining One and its priestess. And unseen by them, wrapped as they were within their love and sacrifice, I crept softly behind.
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