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Updated: June 5, 2025
Miela explained then that we were some ten miles from the fertile country surrounding the city in which her mother lived, and about fifteen miles from the outskirts of the city itself. I give these distances as they would be measured on earth. We decided to start at once. We took nothing with us.
Another moment and they were in the air, with Mercer waving good-by to us vigorously. Miela and I, left alone, watched them silently as they dwindled to a speck in the haze of the sky. We were about to start back when we saw a girl coming toward us, flying low over the water. One of those we had directed to patrol the coast, Miela said when she came closer. She saw us, and came down on the beach.
Don't it get you, just?" Miela interrupted us here to translate to her mother and Anina what he said. Mercer went on: "The assumption is, you people here are not working with this gang of crooks I got away from this Tao? Am I right in thinking so?" "You're certainly right, that far," I laughed.
"Miela," I whispered, "surely that that is no one of your world." Her hand clutched my arm tightly as the man stepped forward again and waved at us. I crossed the rooftop, Miela following. At my sudden motion the man hesitated, then seemed about to run. I hardly know what thoughts impelled me, but suddenly I shouted: "Wait!"
"Miela," I said, "tell the queen her son shall be king. I am about to proclaim him king before the people, and I, as regent, will rule. Tell her that, and bring him here now to me." The queen made no answer, save a slight inclination of her head. But I saw that she had recovered composure. She pushed her son gently away from her, and I strode forward to meet him.
And even if this expedition of Tao's were destroyed, I don't see why that's any guarantee another attempt would not be made. Miela doesn't, either, and she ought to know. "Besides, don't you see, Bob" he turned to me earnestly "I can't have the eyes of the world turned on Miela and her affairs?
Miela did not know where they would be; but under the circumstances, as Baar had told his men, she believed the guards would disappear from the vicinity. This conjecture proved to be correct. The guards, not wishing to be concerned in the affair at all, had simply disappeared. We saw nothing of Baar and his men on the way up the mountain, although I had hoped we might overtake them.
When we were still a mile or so away from the outskirts of the city Miela spoke in her soft native tongue to Anina. The girl smiled at me in parting, and, unwinding the veil from about her breast, flew into the air. We stood watching her as she winged her way onward toward the sleeping city.
The throng was pushing close about us now, although those nearest us tried to keep away as best they could. Miela and Anina flew up over our heads, and, side by side, Mercer and I started off. The people struggled back before our advance, striving to make a path for us. At times the press of those behind made it impossible for them to give us room.
We decided that we should see the king and arrange our future course of action. Whatever was to be done should be done at once that we all agreed for Tao's men were steadily gaining favor with a portion of the people, and we had no means of knowing what they would attempt to do. "What will your people think of me?" I suddenly asked Miela.
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