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In addition, a few summits, which must have been of extraordinary height, appeared over the south side of the horseshoe. Maskull turned round to put a question to Sullenbode, but when he saw her for the first time in moonlight the words he had framed died on his lips.
"He need not be in such a hurry.... What do these pillars seem like to you?" "They might be the entrance to some mighty temple. Who can have planted them there?" She did not answer. They watched Corpang gain the summit of the hill, and disappear through the line of posts. Maskull turned again to Sullenbode. "Now we two are alone in a lonely world." She regarded him steadily.
The head had been split from the top downward into two halves, streaming with strange-coloured blood, as though it had received a terrible blow from an axe. "This couldn't be from the fall," said Maskull. "No, Sullenbode did it." Maskull turned quickly to look at the woman. She had resumed her former attitude on the ground.
But I would like to see you by sunlight." "Perhaps you never will." "Your life must be most solitary." She explored his features with her black, slow-gleaming eyes. "Why do you fear to speak your feelings, Maskull?" "Things seem to open up before me like a sunrise, but what it means I can't say." Sullenbode laughed outright. "It assuredly does not mean the approach of night."
During this embrace he turned very pale, but Sullenbode grew as white as chalk. A few minutes later the journey toward Adage was resumed. They had been walking for two hours. Teargeld was higher in the sky and nearer the south. They had descended many hundred feet, and the character of the ridge began to alter for the worse. The thin snow disappeared, and gave way to moist, boggy ground.
"What Corpang doesn't tell you, Sullenbode, is that I am far better acquainted with Muspel-light than he, and that, but for a chance meeting with me, he would still be saying his prayers in Threal." "Still, what he says must be true," she replied, looking from one to the other. "And so I am not to be allowed to " "So long as I am with you, I shall urge you onward, and not backward, Maskull."
Within half an hour they had reached the Mornstab Pass. The ground here was drier; the broken land to the north served to drain off the moisture of the soil. Sullenbode led them to the northern edge of the ridge, to show them the nature of the country. The pass was nothing but a gigantic landslip on both sides of the ridge, where it was the lowest above the underlying land.
Sullenbode listened, with half-closed eyes, nodding her head from time to time. only twice did she interrupt him. After his description of Tydomin's death, she said, speaking in a low voice "None of us women ought by right of nature to fall short of Tydomin in sacrifice. For that one act of hers, I almost love her, although she brought evil to your door."
Complete stillness was in the air, broken only by the distant thundering of an invisible waterfall. Maskull and Sullenbode sat down on a boulder, facing the open country. The moon was directly behind them, high up. It was almost as light as an Earth day. "Tonight is like life," said Sullenbode. "How so?" "So lovely above and around us, so foul underfoot." Maskull sighed.
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