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And weird, weird beyond all telling was that exquisite head and bust floating there in air and beautiful, sinisterly beautiful beyond all telling, too. So even might Lilith, the serpent woman, have shown herself tempting Adam! "And perhaps," she said, "perhaps I want you because I hate you; perhaps because I love you or perhaps for Lugur or perhaps for the Shining One." "And if I go with you?"
And her hand again sought in her breast for the cone of rhythmic death. Lugur touched her arm, whispered again, The glint of guile shone in her eyes; she laughed softly, relaxed. "The Silent Ones, Lakla, bade you say that they allowed me three tal to decide," she said suavely. "Go now in peace, Lakla, and say that Yolara has heard, and that for the three tal they allow her she will take council."
Scanning it we found no trace of Lugur and wondered whether he too had seen the worm and had fled. Quickly we passed on; drew away from the coria path. The mosses began to thin; less and less they grew, giving way to low clumps that barely offered us shelter. Unexpectedly another screen of fern moss stretched before us. Slowly Rador made his way through it and stood hesitating.
The Irishman was gripping my arm fiercely; the pain brought me back to my senses. "Olaf's right," he gasped. "This is hell! I'm sick." And he was, frankly and without restraint. Lugur and his others awakened from their nightmare; piled into the coria, wheeled, raced away. "On!" said Rador thickly. "Two perils have we passed the Silent Ones watch over us!"
"As you will, Lugur," she said. And as, shaken to the core, we passed out into the garden into the full throbbing of the light, I wondered if all the tiny sparkling diamond points that shook about us had once been men like Songar of the Lower Waters and felt my very soul grow sick!
She glanced swiftly at Lugur. "The ladala are stirring, and the Silent Ones threaten. Yet fear not for are we not strong under the Shining One? And now leave us." Her hand dropped to the table, and she gave, evidently, a signal, for in marched a dozen or more of the green dwarfs. "Take these two to their place," she commanded, pointing to us. The green dwarfs clustered about us.
For him there who plots with Lugur" she pointed at Marakinoff, and I saw Yolara start "they have no need. Into his heart the Silent Ones have looked; and Lugur and you may keep him, Yolara!" There was honeyed venom in the last words. Yolara was herself now; only the edge of shrillness on her voice revealed her wrath as she answered.
Lakla signalled the frog-men; they advanced toward the two but Olaf saw them, broke the red dwarf's hold, sent Lugur reeling a dozen feet away. "No!" shouted the Norseman, the ice of his pale-blue eyes glinting like frozen flames, blood streaming down his face and dripping from his hands. "No! Lugur is mine! None but me slays him!
Only once on our way did Larry speak. "Cheer up, darlin'," he said to her, "it's a long way yet before the finish. An' are you thinking that Lugur and Yolara are going to pull this thing off? Are you?" The handmaiden only looked at him, eyes love and sorrow filled. "They are!" said Larry. "They are! Like HELL they are!" The Meeting of Titans
"For her I meant and her you have pictured is Lakla, the hand-maiden to the Silent Ones, and neither Yolara nor Lugur, nay, nor the Shining One, love her overmuch, stranger." "Does she dwell here?" Larry's face was alight. The dwarf hesitated, glanced about him anxiously. "Nay," he answered, "ask me no more of her." He was silent for a space.
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