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>From the cabin, I stepped into the control room.
You do not knowagainst how
many foemen you will be pitted. I dont know, I replied, but I feel hands upon
me and the warmth ofbodies around me.
Unquestionably, he said; and it will time
our arrival to meet thesatellite in its path. She is coming, he said in a tense
whisper. She stood to wait upon us, but I insisted that she sit with us and
eat.
Now I was quite alone; but yet up and up I climbed, guided by
thoseinvisible hands upon my arms.
At the same time he rubbed his palms up and
downhis thighs.
If you knew how, you could see themas plainly as I do. They
were unglazed, but they were barred. The thought caused me to smile, and as I
did so I saw animmediate reaction in my cell-mate.
She was a prisoner in the
house of FalSivas, and she was assigned to me there to be my slave.
Our ship
had settled quietly to the ground beside that of Gar Nal. I moved toward him,
and again he changed his position.
Now I was quite alone; but yet up and up I
climbed, guided by thoseinvisible hands upon my arms.
At least, however, it
partially explained the strange actions of Zanda.
I am not so enthusiastic
about it myself, I agreed. Zanda looked at me with a puzzled _expression_. I
would kill either Jat Or or myself, she replied. The heavens were a black
voidshot with cold and glittering points of light.
If there is no one here now,
it hasnot been deserted long.
Again I tell you that you are not my slave,
Zanda, I said.
There must be someonein that castle, and I am going to have a
look inside it.
There before mewas a great world, one crescent edge illuminated
by the sun beyond it. Because he conquered Zodanga; because all her sorrows
resulted fromthe fall of the city.
My earthly muscles quickly brought me to
Zandas side.
There must be someonein that castle, and I am going to have a look
inside it.
Thuria seemeddirectly beneath us now instead of straight ahead.
It
seemed a most beautiful andintriguing world. She was a prisoner in the house of
FalSivas, and she was assigned to me there to be my slave.
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