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We drew back, staring silently at each other's ghastly green faces. "Let's let's get away," Mercer whispered finally. "No use staying here now." We hurried back to the nearest place where one of our projectors was set up. The two men guarding it looked at us anxiously, and smiled triumphantly when Miela told them what we had done.
I gripped her with my hands, fumbling to catch her wrists, but before I could succeed she toppled forward and fell partly over me. I heard Miela give a cry of fright. I struggled free and raised myself up to a half-sitting position. Baar's wife lay beside me dead, with the slave woman's knife buried to the hilt in her back.
I dropped wearily into a seat, and Miela sat on the floor at my feet with her arms on my knees. I stroked her glossy black hair idly. "I'm tired, girl. I'm all in. Aren't you?" We had not slept since the afternoon before, and so much had happened since. Suddenly I remembered Lua. "Miela your mother. We must find her." I started to my feet, then sat down again.
The silence from below continued. I spread my hands out before me and smiled. "But there will be no trouble. I am with the Light Country, heart and soul. Its interests are my interests, for I have married one of its women, and now I too am one of its people. "Tao shall be overthrown tell them that, Miela. The Twilight People never again shall threaten our cities.
Just give me a chance at them." He leaned over the balcony. "How are we going to get down there? It's too far to drop." Miela spoke to Anina, and they both flew away. In a moment they were back with two other girls. All four clung to the outside of the balcony railing, and formed a cross with their joined hands. Into this little seat of their arms I clambered.
The girl withdrew after a moment. Mercer and Anina left in the Twilight Country! Miela and I stared at each other blankly. Mercer sat on the rear end of the platform and waved good-by vigorously as he was carried swiftly up and out over the water.
Yet, Miela said, the leaders of the women now felt that some progress was being made in changing public sentiment, although so far not a single man had been found who would take for mate a woman with wings unclipped.
We followed the main route at the best speed we could make. "We shall tell our king, of course, about this disturbance," said Miela. "Perhaps he will think there is something he can do. But I fear greatly that unless he appeals directly to the people, and they are with him " "He's an old man," I said, "and all his councilors are old. They're not fit to rule at such a time as this.
I remembered then Bob Trevor's mention of it as the metal of the apparatus used by the invaders of Wyoming. We went on three or four miles without encountering a single sign of life. No insects stirred underfoot; no birds flew overhead. We might have been by the look of it alone on a dead planet. "Is none of your mountain country inhabited, Miela?" I asked. She shook her head.
"Your commands shall be obeyed, my husband," she said quietly. I felt again that sudden sense of helplessness as I saw her leave. "Be careful, Miela. Order every one in the castle to the roof. Here! Tell the queen before you go. Send every one up there with me. The mob may come in. We'll make our stand up there." I understood Baar's plot better now.
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