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"I am done with Lugur and with Yolara and the Shining One!" cried Rador. "My hand is for you three and for Lakla and those to whom she is handmaiden!" The shell leaped forward; seemed to fly. A tal in Muria is the equivalent of thirty hours of earth surface time. The Casting of the Shadow
"And whence have the Silent Ones gained power to command, choya?" This last, I knew, was a very vulgar word; I had heard Rador use it in a moment of anger to one of the serving maids, and it meant, approximately, "kitchen girl," "scullion." Beneath the insult and the acid disdain, the blood rushed up under Lakla's ambered ivory skin. "Yolara" her voice was low "of no use is it to question me.
Now from Yolara burst chime upon chime of mocking laughter. She gave a command the hands loosened, the poniard withdrew from my heart; suddenly as I had been caught I was free and unpleasantly weak and shaky. "Have you that in Ireland, Larree!" cried the priestess and once more trembled with laughter. "A good play, Yolara." His voice was as calm as his face.
Yea, Yolara, for you and the Shining One, Lugur and the Nine and all those here and their kind shall pass! This say the Silent Ones, 'Surely shall all of ye pass and be as though never had ye been!" Now a gasp of rage and fear arose from all those around me but the priestess threw back her head and laughed loud and long.
"The Russian questioned much, but Lugur sent for more drink and grew merrier and threatened him, and the Russian was silent through fear. Thereafter I listened when I could, and little more I learned, but that little enough. Ja! Lugur is hot for conquest; so Yolara and so the Council. They tire of it here and the Silent Ones make their minds not too easy, no, even though they jeer at them!
She saw and, smiling, drew him down beside her. It came to me that of all, only these two, Yolara and O'Keefe, were in white and I wondered; then with a tightening of nerves ceased to wonder as there entered Lugur! He was all in scarlet, and as he strode forward a silence fell a tense, strained silence.
She pointed down upon Larry. He glanced up at her. "Can't quite make out what you say, Yolara," he muttered thickly. "But say anything you like I love your voice!" I turned sick with dread. Yolara's hand stole softly upon the Irishman's curls caressingly. "You know the law, Yolara." Lugur's voice was flat, deadly, "You may not mate with other than your own kind.
"Lakla will not return unless I carry to her these men as evidence of our good faith. Come we will speak to Yolara and she shall judge you " He started away but Serku caught his arm. "No, Rador, no!" he whispered, again panic-stricken. "Go you as you will. But bring her back! Speed, Rador!" He sprang toward the entrance. "I lift the Shadow "
The chamber we entered was large, closed on two sides by screens of grey; at the back gay, concealing curtains. The low table of blue stone, dressed with fine white cloths, stretched at one side flanked by the cushioned divans. At the left was a high tripod bearing one of the rosy globes we had seen in the house of Yolara; at the head of the table a smaller globe similar to the whispering one.
Now truly is my heart wrung, for there are few I would less like to see dance with the Shining One than you, Serku," he ended, softly. Livid now was the gateway's guardian, his great frame shaking. "Come with me and speak to Yolara," he pleaded. "There came no message tell her " "Wait, Serku!" There was a thrill as of inspiration in Rador's voice.
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