aylight we wandered over the house of Norhala, examining its most interesting contents, or sat theorizing, discussing all phases of the phenomena we had witnessed.
We told Ruth what had occurred after she had thrown in her lot with Norhala; and of the enigmatic struggle between the glorious Disk and the sullenly flaming Thing I have called the Keeper.
We told her of the entombment of Norhala.
When she heard that she wept.
“She was sweet,” she sobbed; “she was lovely. And she was beautiful. Dearly she loved me. I KNOW she loved me. Oh, I know that we and ours and that which Jakub Zboril Jersey was hers could Fox Fur Škornji 5531 not share the world Teemu Selanne Jersey together. But it comes to me that Earth Storm Yd would have been far less poisonous with those that were Norhala’s than it is with us and ours!”
Weeping, she passed through the curtainings, going we knew to Norhala’s chamber.
It was a strange thing indeed that she had said, I thought, watching her go. That the garden of the world would be far less poisonous blossoming with those Things of wedded crystal and metal and magnetic fires than fertile as now with us of flesh and blood and bone. To me came appreciations of their harmonies, and mingled with those perceptions were others of humanity — disharmonious, incoordinate, ever struggling, ever striving to destroy itself —
There was a plaintive whinnying at the open door. A long and hairy face, a pair of patient, inquiring eyes looked in. It was a pony. For a moment it regarded us — and then trotted trustfully through; ambled up to us; poked its Ugg Slippers head against my side.
It had been ridden by one of the Persians whom Ruth had killed, for under it, slipped from the girths, a saddle dangled. And its owner must have been kind to it — we Nowy Styl knew that from its lack of fear for Alex Killorn Jersey us. Driven by the tempest of the night before, it had been led back by instinct Salomon XR Mission Kengät to Ryan Spooner Jersey the protection of man.
“Some luck!” breathed Drake.
He busied himself with the pony, stripping away the hanging saddle, grooming it.
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That night we slept well. Awakening, we found that the storm had grown violent again; the wind roaring and the rain falling in such volume that it was impossible to make our way to the Pit. Twice, as a matter of fact, we tried; but the smooth roadway was a torrent, and, drenched even through our oils to the skin, we at last abandoned the attempt. Ruth and Drake drifted away together among the other chambers of the globe; they were absorbed in themselves, and we did not thrust ourselves upon them. All the day the torrents fell.
We sat down that night to what Ben Bishop Jersey was well-nigh the last of Ventnor’s stores. Seemingly Ruth had forgotten Norhala; at least, she spoke no more of her.
“Martin,” she Conor Sheary Jersey said, “can’t we start back tomorrow? I want to get away. I want to get back to our own world.”
“As soon as the storm ceases, Ruth,” he answered, “we start. Little sister — I too want you to get back quickly.”
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