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Updated: May 10, 2025
Of what use? We were paired. Georg with Maida; Elza with Tarrano. And I? Tarrano told me curtly and with a smile of ironic amusement that when we reached the festival so handsome a man as I would have no trouble engaging the attention of some Venus maiden. On cushions in the barge we reclined while our slaans poled us along the streets.
But they would not hear her. Shouts went up; a roar of threats. The press of additions to the mob landing from other boats, forced the front ranks forward. They were now on the palace steps, jammed there waving their weapons yet still hesitating to advance. "Slaans my people " Maida's frail voice was lost in the uproar.
Then the boats began landing, disgorging their occupants, wild-eyed slaans each a potential murderer. The gardens of the palace were presently jammed with them. They did not at first come within our threshholds; they stood milling about under the palms, trampling the tropic flowers, screaming threats and epithets at us.
And then the sudden condensation brought snow a thick white fall of it sifting down into the palm-laden garden; falling gently, then swirling in a sudden wind which had begun. As though itself stiffened by the cold just overhead, the mob stood transfixed. Then a murmur of horror came. And I saw through the veil of whirling snow, that into some of the trees slaans had climbed.
It was against Maida herself. Trickery of the downtrodden slaans against the ruling class. Against the old order of government. Even against the Rhaals, who in their distant city were all-powerful, but who obeyed the laws and took no part in anything. Revolution! From down the waterways of streets which converged into the broad lagoon before the palace, boats began arriving.
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