Garan the Eternal
“From its depths came a faint sighing murmur, a distant hum as if some form of life crawled and had its being far beneath us.
“The end,” said Zacat. “Our choice was the wrong one.”
“I wonder,” I mused. Something suspended out in the gulf had caught my eye. Two long chains, of the same substance as that which walled the Ways, hung taut and steady as if they supported some unseen weight. I unhooked my ray rod and held it before me so that the pencil of light from the still burning charge could pic...k out what might hang between the chains.
“Ah — “ Zacat purred like a giant Ana, for the ray revealed a bridge of some light-resisting substance, a bridge that ran on out into the curtain of darkness.
Moving the ray I traced the outlines of the bridge to see where it touched on our side of the gulf. It did not touch. A good three feet away it ended in a mass of broken splinters. Whether the break was new or centuries old we had no way of telling, but it might prove an effective barrier.MoreLess
“The end,” said Zacat. “Our choice was the wrong one.”
“I wonder,” I mused. Something suspended out in the gulf had caught my eye. Two long chains, of the same substance as that which walled the Ways, hung taut and steady as if they supported some unseen weight. I unhooked my ray rod and held it before me so that the pencil of light from the still burning charge could pic...k out what might hang between the chains.
“Ah — “ Zacat purred like a giant Ana, for the ray revealed a bridge of some light-resisting substance, a bridge that ran on out into the curtain of darkness.
Moving the ray I traced the outlines of the bridge to see where it touched on our side of the gulf. It did not touch. A good three feet away it ended in a mass of broken splinters. Whether the break was new or centuries old we had no way of telling, but it might prove an effective barrier.MoreLess
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