The City And the Stars / the Sands of Mars
“said Khedron, “but I knew you would call sooner or later.”This confidence annoyed Alvin; he did not like to think that his behavior could be predicted so accurately. He wondered if the Jester had watched all his fruitless searching and knew exactly what he had been doing.“I am trying to find a way out of the city,” he said bluntly. “There must be one, and I think you could help me find it.”Khedron was silent for a moment. There was still time, if he wished, to turn back from the road that stret...ched before him, and which led into a future beyond all his powers of prophecy. No one else would have hesitated; no other man in the city, even if he had the power, would have dared to disturb the ghosts of an age that had been dead for millions of centuries. Perhaps there was no danger, perhaps nothing could alter the perpetual changelessness of Diaspar. But if there was any risk of something strange and new coming into the world, this might be the last chance to ward it off.Khedron was content with the order of things as it was.MoreLess
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