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At first he could not distinguish Leehallfae. Then he caught sight of legs and hindquarters a few feet up the cliff from the bottom. He perceived that the phaen had aer head in a cavity and was scrutinising something, and waited for aer to reappear. Ae emerged, looked up to Maskull, and called out in aer hornlike voice, "The entrance is here!" "I'm coming down!" roared Maskull. "Wait for me!"
If you could have drawn nearer still, would you not have done so?" "I would, regardless of the consequences." "Even if you personally had nothing to hope for?" "But I would have that to hope for." Leehallfae walked on in silence. "A man is the half of Life," ae broke out suddenly. "A woman is the other half of life, but a phaen is the whole of life.
Leehallfae pressed a hand to aer heart. "The stream leaves us, but what makes the stream what it is continues with us. Faceny is there." "But surely you don't expect to see him in person? Why are you shaking?" "Perhaps it will be too much for me after all." "Why? How is it affecting you?"
"I'm glad I fell in with you, Leehallfae, for this valley and everything connected with it need a lot of explaining. For example, in this spot there are hardly any organic forms left why have they all disappeared? You call this brook a 'life stream, yet the nearer its source we get, the less life it produces.
The second or third time he did so, he felt a sudden agony in his arm, where it had been wounded by Krag. His eyes grew joyful; his fears vanished; and he began deliberately to tread the stream. Leehallfae stroked aer chin and watched him with screwed-up eyes, trying to comprehend what had happened. "Is your luck speaking to you, Maskull, or what is the matter?" "Listen.
"That bears out what you said," commented Maskull, turning rather pale. "Yes," answered Leehallfae, "we have now come to the region of terrible life." "Then, since you're right in this, I must believe all that you've been telling me." As he uttered the words, they were just turning a bend of the ravine.
The valley brook did not flow along the floor of this tunnel, as he had expected, but came up as a spring just inside the entrance. "Well Leehallfae, not much need to deliberate, eh? Still, observe that your stream parts company with us here." As he turned around for an answer he noticed that his companion was trembling from head to foot. "Why, what's the matter?"
"I don't question the genuineness of your passion," replied Maskull, "but it's a pity you can't see your way to carry it forward into the next world." Leehallfae gave a distorted grin, expressing heaven knows what emotion. "Men think what they like, but phaens are so made that they can see the world only as it really is." That ended the conversation.
Leehallfae seemed annoyed, but raised no opposition. Maskull did not awaken till long after Blodsombre. Leehallfae was standing by his side, looking down at him. It was doubtful whether ae had slept at all. "What time is it?" Maskull asked, rubbing his eyes and sitting up. "The day is passing," was the vague reply. Maskull got on to his feet, and gazed up at the cliff.
Without becoming stale or unpleasant, it grew cold, clear and refined, and somehow suggested austere and tomblike thoughts. The daylight disappeared at the first bend in the tunnel. After that, Maskull could not say where the light came from. The air itself must have been luminous, for though it was as light as full moon on Earth, neither he nor Leehallfae cast a shadow.
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