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I knew what she meant, and, stepping back a few paces, came running forward and leaped into the air. I cleared the intervening space with no more effort than I could have jumped less than half that distance on earth. Miela flew over beside me. "You see, Alan, my husband, it is not so bad, perhaps, that I can fly." She was smiling whimsically, but I could see her eyes were full of pride.
Only ahead in the sky I could see a little cluster of black dots that Miela said was a group of females hovering about the summit of the Great City. "It is the time of sleep now, Alan," she said, in answer to my question. I had not thought of that. It was broad daylight, but here on Mercury there was no day or night, but always the same half light, as of a cloudy day.
Miela sat in the stern, steering and operating the mechanism. I sat with her. Mercer was farther forward, beside Anina, talking to her earnestly. Our prisoners lay huddled in various attitudes frightened, all of them, and obviously in no condition to give us further trouble.
Take me there." She pulled me back through the doorway. A man scurried past. I leaped at him and struck him a glancing blow with the heavy wooden pestle. He stumbled to his knees. Without thought of giving quarter, I hit him again before he could rise. He sank back, senseless or dead. Miela was ahead of me, and I ran after her along a hallway.
I did want her to fly, to keep those beautiful wings. And in that moment they came to represent not only her freedom, but my trust in her, my very love itself. I stroked their sleek red feathers gently with my hand. "I shall never feel that way again, Miela," I said earnestly. She laughed once more and kissed me, and the look in her eyes told me she understood.
We might, indeed, have barred the several roads that entered it, but it seemed probable that if Tao wanted to come out he would come, for all we could do to stop him. And yet to starve him out seemed our only possible plan. "We'll have to send back for reënforcements," I told Mercer, Miela and Anina at one of our many conferences. "An army of several thousand, if we can maintain it up here."
No one could be found to come with her. Lua, her mother, wanted to, but Miela would not let her take the risk, saying she was needed more there in her own world. "As a matter of fact, the thing, while difficult perhaps to understand in principle, in operation works very simply. Miela knew that, and merely asked them to show her how to operate it practically. This they did.
Mercer and I, with Anina and Miela, traveled as before through the air on the two platforms with the girls. We crossed the Narrow Sea without incident and entered the river. Several hours up, the river narrowed and entered a rocky gorge, four or five hundred feet wide and a thousand feet deep, with almost perpendicular sides. Along one of these ran the Lone City trail.
A knock on the door of our room brought me to myself. A young girl stood respectfully on the threshold. Miela listened to what she had to say, questioned her swiftly, and then turned to me. Her face had gone suddenly white. "The girls have returned from over the sea, Alan. This is one of them. But Anina and our friend Ollie have stayed there." "Stayed there?" I cried. "Why?"
Then they entered the vehicle. Its heavy door closed. A moment later it rose silently slowly at first, then with increasing velocity until we could see it only as a little speck in the air above us. And then it was gone. With hardly more than a perceptible tremor our strange vehicle came to rest upon the surface of Mercury. For a moment Miela and I stood regarding each other silently.
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