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Thirty feet wide they were at their widest, then drew toward each other with no break in their symmetry; they did not close. Above was, roughly, a ten-foot rift, ragged edged, through which poured light like that in the heart of pale amber, a buttercup light shot through with curiously evanescent bronze shadows. "Quick!" commanded Rador, uneasily, and set off at a sharp pace.
Hardly had I reached it before Rador came hurrying up, in his manner a curious exultance mingled with what in anyone else I would have called a decided nervousness. "Come!" he commanded before I could speak. "The Council has made decision and Larree is awaiting you." "What has been decided?" I panted as we sped along the mosaic path that led to the house of Yolara. "And why is Larry awaiting me?"
After, sleep a little for not soon will Rador and Olaf return. And let me feel your lips before you go, Larry darlin'!" She covered his eyes caressingly with her soft little palms; pushed him away. "Now go," said Lakla, "and rest!"
Far, far behind us, so far that the road was but a glistening thread, a score of shining points came speeding. "Lugur and his men," said Rador. "Can't you step on her?" asked Larry. "Step on her?" repeated the green dwarf, puzzled. "Give her more speed; push her," explained O'Keefe. Rador looked about him.
And as they touched them there was the swift dissolution, the melting away into putrescence of flesh and bone that I had witnessed when the dart touched fruit that time I had saved Rador and upon this the Medusae gorged; pulsing lambently; their wondrous colours shifting, changing, glowing stronger; elfin moons now indeed, but satellites whose glimmering beauty was fed by death; alembics of enchantment whose glorious hues were sucked from horror.
"For how know you that one within them creeps not to you with hand eager to strike?" "There is no danger," she said indifferently. "I am the keeper of them." She mused for a space, then abruptly: "And now no more. You two are to appear before the Council at a certain time but fear nothing. You, Goodwin, go with Rador about our city and increase your wisdom.
We were pacing down the length of the bridge, guards of the Akka beside us, others following with those companies of ladala that had rushed to aid us; in front of us the bandaged Rador swung gently within a litter; beside him, in another, lay Nak, the frog-king much less of him than there had been before the battle began, but living. Hours had passed since the terror I have just related.
And thereafter he never addressed the green dwarf except by the avuncular title, which Rador, humorously enough, apparently conceived to be one of respectful endearment. For me a light broke.
"In that at least your world and mine differ little," said the dwarf. "How great is this world of yours, Rador?" I spoke. He considered me gravely. "How great indeed I do not know," he said frankly at last. "The land where we dwell with the Shining One stretches along the white waters for " He used a phrase of which I could make nothing.
And in the meantime we shall have disposed my Akka to meet Yolara's men. And on that disposal we must all take counsel, you, Larry, and Rador, Olaf and Goodwin and Nak, the ruler of the Akka." "Did the messenger give any idea when Yolara expects to make her little call?" asked Larry. "Yes," she answered.
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