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Updated: June 23, 2025
There were footsteps on the path, and into sight came Rador but a Rador changed. Gone was every vestige of his mockery; curiously solemn, he saluted O'Keefe and Olaf with that salute which, before this, I had seen given only to Yolara and to Lugur. There came a swift quickening of the tumult died away. He shrugged mighty shoulders. "The ladala are awake!" he said.
"Because he wooed me! Because he is mine!" "That is a lie!" The handmaiden's voice shook with rage. "It is a lie! But here and now he shall choose, Yolara. And if you he choose, you and he shall go forth from here unmolested for Yolara, it is his happiness that I most desire, and if you are that happiness you shall go together. And now, Larry, choose!"
And there Yolara gripped herself; the hell that seethed within her soul leaped out of her eyes, a cry, a shriek of rage, tore from her lips. As at a signal, the Shining One flamed high; its spirals and eddying mists swirled madly, the pulsing core of it blazed radiance. A score of coruscating tentacles swept straight upon the pair who stood intrepid, unresisting, awaiting its embrace.
I felt O'Keefe grip my arm; Yolara threw her white arms out in a welcoming gesture; I heard from the tier a sigh of rapture and in it a poignant, wailing under-tone of agony! Over the waters, down the light stream, to the end of the ivory pier, flew the Shining One. Through its crystal pizzicati drifted inarticulate murmurings deadly sweet, stilling the heart and setting it leaping madly.
The red dwarf quivered, turned caught a robe from a priest standing by, and threw it over himself. The ladala, shouting, gesticulating, fighting with the soldiers, were jostling down from the tiers of jet. "Come!" commanded Yolara her eyes rested upon Larry. "Your heart is great, indeed my lord!" she murmured; and her voice was very sweet. "Come!"
Yolara took from her girdle something that looked like a small pencil, pressed it and shot a thin stream of light for all the world like an electric flash, upon its hasp. The lid flew open. Out of it she drew three flat, oval crystals, faint rose in hue. She handed one to O'Keefe and one to me. "Look!" she commanded, placing the third before her own eyes.
Yolara crept close, just beyond the reach of its spirals. She murmured and the Dweller bent toward her, its seven globes steady in their shining mists, as though listening. It drew erect once more, resumed its doubtful scrutiny. Yolara's face darkened; she turned abruptly, spoke to a captain of her guards. A dwarf raced back between the palisades of dead-alive.
For him there who plots with Lugur" she pointed at Marakinoff, and I saw Yolara start "they have no need. Into his heart the Silent Ones have looked; and Lugur and you may keep him, Yolara!" There was honeyed venom in the last words. Yolara was herself now; only the edge of shrillness on her voice revealed her wrath as she answered.
And her hand again sought in her breast for the cone of rhythmic death. Lugur touched her arm, whispered again, The glint of guile shone in her eyes; she laughed softly, relaxed. "The Silent Ones, Lakla, bade you say that they allowed me three tal to decide," she said suavely. "Go now in peace, Lakla, and say that Yolara has heard, and that for the three tal they allow her she will take council."
"O heart of mine!" she whispered to Larry, gazing deep into his eyes, his anxious face cupped between her white palms. "This they say that should the Shining One come to succour Yolara and Lugur, should it conquer its fear and do this then is there but one way left to destroy it and to save your world." She swayed; he gripped her tightly. "But one way you and I must go together into its embrace!
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