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He turned again to the other kaldanes. "Will you notify Luud that I am here?" he asked. "Sept has already gone to Luud. He will tell him," replied one. "Where did you find this rykor with the strange kaldane that cannot detach itself?" The girl's captor narrated once more the story of her capture.
Look at their wonderful trappings, their gold, their jewels." "Thank you," she said. "You called them kaldanes what does that mean?" "We are all kaldanes," he replied. "You, too?" and she pointed at him, her slim finger directed toward his chest. "No, not this," he explained, touching his body; "this is a rykor; but this," and he touched his head, "is a kaldane.
Following the ravine upward they finally topped the summit of the ridge, from which they had an excellent view of that part of the city which lay nearest them, though themselves hidden by the brush behind which they crouched. Ghek had resumed his rykor, which had suffered less than either Tara or Turan through their enforced fast.
I am scarcely objectively aware that I think when I fight, so quickly does my point take advantage of every opening, or spring to my defense if I am threatened that it is almost as though the cold steel had eyes and brains. You, with your kaldane brain and your rykor body, never could hope to achieve in the same degree of perfection those things that I can achieve.
But when we dominate the rykor ah, that is different, and when I hear you sing and look at your beautiful body I know what you mean by love. I could love you." The girl shrank from him. "You promised to tell me the origin of the rykor," she reminded him. "Ages ago," he commenced, "our bodies were larger and our heads smaller. Our legs were very weak and we could not travel fast or far.
When I am through with you you shall be killed if it seems the logical thing to do. You have no conception of the possibilities for power which lie in a perfectly developed brain. Look at that rykor. He has no brain. He can move but slightly of his own volition.
When the warriors had departed from the prison in which Ghek was confined, the kaldane crawled from the shoulders of the rykor to the table. Here he drank a little water and then directed the hands of the rykor to the balance of it and to the food, upon which the brainless thing fell with avidity.
It is the brain, the intellect, the power that directs all things. The rykor," he indicated his body, "is nothing. It is not so much even as the jewels upon our harness; no, not so much as the harness itself. It carries us about. It is true that we would find difficulty getting along without it; but it has less value than harness or jewels because it is less difficult to reproduce."
Tara of Helium gasped in horror and turning away covered her eyes with her palms. "Come!" said her captor. "What is the matter?" "They are eating the flesh of the woman," she whispered in tones of horror. "Why not?" he inquired. "Did you suppose that we kept the rykor for labor alone? Ah, no. They are delicious when kept and fattened.
He heard the man enter the chamber and halt. He heard a muttered exclamation, followed by the jangle of metal dishes as a salver was slammed upon a table; then rapidly retreating footsteps, which quickly died away in the distance. Ghek lost no time in returning to the chamber, recovering the key, relocking the rykor to his chain.
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