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Updated: May 23, 2025
"Look not upon the eyes of Luud," warned the kaldane, "or you are lost." Within the chamber Gahan saw Tara of Helium in the clutches of a mighty body, while close to the wall upon the opposite side of the apartment crouched the hideous, spider-like Luud.
There was no necessity for anticipating the end. Presently Luud spoke. "You think to escape," he said, in the deadly, expressionless monotone of his kind the only possible result of orally expressing reason uninfluenced by sentiment. "You will not escape. You are merely the embodiment of two imperfect things an imperfect brain and an imperfect body. The two cannot exist together in perfection.
Near the opposite wall lay his rykor, its beautiful form trapped in gorgeous harness a dead thing without a guiding kaldane. Luud dismissed the warriors who had accompanied the prisoner. Then he sat with his terrible eyes fixed upon her and without speaking for some time. Tara of Helium could but wait. What was to come she could only guess. When it came would be sufficiently the time to meet it.
With eyes averted she turned toward the aperture through which those baleful eyes had drawn her. Again Luud commanded her to stop, but the voice alone lacked all authority to influence her. It was not like the eyes.
The rykor had reached forth and seized her, and though she struggled the thing dragged her back into the room with Luud. It held her tight and drew her close, and then, to her horror, it commenced to caress her. "You see now," she heard Luud's dull voice, "the futility of revolt and its punishment."
The words seemed to release her momentarily from the spell. Quickly she turned away her eyes. "Look at me!" commanded Luud. Tara of Helium kept her eyes averted. She felt a new strength, or at least a diminution of the creature's power over her. Had she stumbled upon the secret of its uncanny domination over her will? She dared not hope.
"As I did with the rykor so can I do with you." Tara of Helium made no reply. Evidently no vocal reply was necessary. "You doubt my ability!" stated Luud, which was precisely the fact, though the girl had only thought it she had not said it. Luud crossed the room and lay down.
"The people of my race do not all like the same things," said the girl. "How strange!" commented Ghek. "All kaldanes like the same things and dislike the same things. If I discover something new and like it I know that all kaldanes will like it. That is how I know that Luud would like your singing. You see we are all exactly alike." "But you do not look like Luud," said the girl. "Luud is king.
But by far the most grewsome and uncanny sight of all was that of the heads crawling about upon their spider legs. If one of these should approach and touch her Tara of Helium was positive that she should scream, while should one attempt to crawl up her person ugh! the very idea induced a feeling of faintness. Sept returned to the chamber. "Luud will see you and the captive.
"I understand, Luud," replied the other. "Take it away!" commanded the creature. Ghek turned and led Tara of Helium from the apartment. The girl was horrified by contemplation of the fate that awaited her a fate from which it seemed, there was no escape.
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