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Updated: May 29, 2025
"I will never forget what you have done for me this night; and should the High Gods see fit to bring me back to Atlantis and power, you shall taste my gratitude." "I do not want to return. I am sick of this old life here." "But you have your palace in the city, and your servants, and your wealth, and Phorenice will not disturb you from their possession."
There must be something warmer than the ordinary between us two, Deucalion, if you could guess who walked beneath all these mufflings." I let that pass. "But what's your errand, girl?" "Aye," she said bitterly, "there's my reward. All your concern's for the message, none for the carrier. Well, good my lord, you are husband to the dainty Phorenice no longer." "This is news." "And true enough, too.
With rebels merely biting at the walls, it was fine to put strong trust in the defences, and easy to affect contempt for the besiegers' powers, and to keep the business of pageants and state craft and marryings turning on easy wheels. It was no moment for further delay, and Phorenice was the first to admit it.
As I passed along the tortuous way between the ponderous stones of the pyramid, which led to the apartments that had been given me by Phorenice, a woman glided up out of the shadows of one of the side passages, and when I lifted my hand lamp, there was Ylga. She regarded me half-sullenly. "I have lost my place," she said, "and it seems I need never have spoken.
The nature of it even is too awful to be told in words. Our other powers will be launched against you first, and for this poor country's sake I pray that they may cause you to wince. Yet rest assured, Phorenice, that we shall not step aside once we have put a hand to this matter. We shall carry it through, even though the cost be a universal burning and destruction.
But Phorenice was self-made, and appeared to be a rule unto herself; if Zaemon was to be trusted, he was the mouthpiece of the Priests, and their Clan had set her at defiance; and how was a mere honest man to choose on the instant between the two? But cold argument told me that governments were set up for the good of the country at large, and I said to myself that there would be my choice.
One shrieked once, the other gave no sound: they were clever thrusts both. The old man found his voice, thin, and high, and broken. "Another crime added to your tally, Phorenice. Not half your army could have hindered my entrance had I wished to come, and let me tell you that I am here to bring you your last warning.
So I went and stood before Phorenice, and said the words which the ancient forms prescribed concerning the carrying out of her wish. "Then, now," she said, "I will give myself to you as wife. We are not as others, you and I, Deucalion. There is a law and a form set down for the marrying of these other people, but that would be useless for our purposes.
Phorenice knows by her arts she has stolen nearly all the ancient knowledge now that still you live, and she keeps Nais unharmed beneath the granite throne in the hopes that some time she may use her as a weapon against you. Little she knows the sternness of our Priests' creed, my brother.
With any other schoolmistress than you, Phorenice, I should not be near so forward. "I suppose you think I should be satisfied with that? Well, I am not. I can be finely greedy over some matters." The banquet this night did not extend to inordinate length.
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