eed for us to care. For man will be done!”
“Martin! What do you mean?”
“It is the crisis,” he answered. “We can do nothing, Goodwin — nothing. Whatever is to be steps forth now from the womb of Destiny.”
Again there came that distant rolling — louder, now. Again the Thing trembled.
“The drums,” whispered Ventnor. “The drums of destiny. What is it they are heralding? A new birth of Earth and the passing of man? A new child to whom shall be given dominion — nay, to whom has been given dominion? Parajumpers Kobiety Gobi Or is it — taps — for Them?”
The drumming died as I listened — fearfully. About us was only the swishing, the sighing of the falling trees beneath the tread of the Thing. Motionless stood Norhala; and as motionless Ruth.
“Martin,” I cried once more, a dreadful doubt upon me. “Martin — what do you mean?”
“Whence did — They — come?” His voice was clear and calm, the eyes beneath the red brand clear and quiet, too. “Whence did They come Niger Dresy — these Things that carry us? That strode like destroying angels over Cherkis’s city? Are they spawn of France Dresy Earth — as we are? Or are they foster children — Karim Benzema Fotbalové Dres changelings from another star?
“These Survetement Allemagne creatures that when many still are Mężczyźni Barbour Waxed Kurtka one — that when one Real Madrid Femme still are many. Whence did They come? What are They?”
He looked down upon the cubes that held us; their hosts of tiny eyes shone up at him, enigmatically — as though they heard River Plate Dresy and understood.
“I do not forget,” he said. “At least not all do I forget of what I saw during that time when I seemed an atom outside space — as I told you, or think I told you, speaking with unthinkable effort through lips that seemed eternities away from me, the atom, who strove to open them.
“There were three — visions, revelations — I know not what to call them. And though each seemed equally real, of two of them, only one, I think, can be true; and of the third — that may some time be true but surely is not yet.”
Through the air came a louder drum roll — in it something ominous, something sinister. It swelled to a crescendo; abruptly ceased. And Wayne Gretzky Tröjor now I saw Norhala raise her head; listen.
“I saw a world, a vast world, Goodwin, marching stately through space. It was no globe — it was a world of many facets, of smooth and polished planes; a huge blue jewel world, dimly luminous; a crystal world cut out from Aether. A geometric thought of the Great Cause, of God, if you will, made material. It was airless, waterless, sunless.
“I seemed to draw closer to it. And then I saw that over every facet patterns were traced; gigantic Maillot Gerrard symmetrical designs; mathematical hieroglyphs. In them I read unthinkable calculations, formulas of interwoven universes, arithmetical progressions of armies of stars, Lias Andersson Tröja pandects of the motions of the suns. In the patterns was an appalling harmony — Palmeiras as though all the laws from those which guide the atom to those which direct the cosmos were there resolved into completeness — totalled.
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