now it was truth. Had not inklings of it come to you even before he spoke? They had to me. His message was but an interpretation, a synthesis of facts I, for one, lacked the courage to admit.”
“I, too,” he nodded. “But he went further than that. What did he mean by the Keeper of the Cones — Mats Sundin Tröja and that the Things — were vulnerable under the same law that orders us? And why did he command us to go back to the city? How could Marco Reus Fotbalové Dres he know — how could he?”
“There’s nothing inexplicable in that, at any rate,” I answered. “Abnormal sensitivity of perception due to the cutting off of all sensual impressions. There’s nothing uncommon in that. You have its most familiar form in the Victor Mete Tröja sensitivity of the blind. You’ve watched the same thing at work in certain forms of hypnotic experimentation, haven’t you?
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“I know,” he said. “I don’t need to be convinced. But we accept these things in theory — and when we get up against them for ourselves we doubt.
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Suddenly he moved away from me, strode over to the curtained oval through which Norhala had gone.
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“You’re wrong,” he answered stubbornly. “I’m going to get her. She’s got to talk.”
He thrust out a hand to the curtains. Before he could touch them, they were parted. Out from between them slithered the black eunuch. He stood motionless, regarding us; in the ink-black eyes a red flame of hatred. I pushed myself between him and Drake.
“Where is your mistress, Yuruk?” I asked.
“The goddess has gone,” he replied sullenly.
“Gone?” I said suspiciously, for certainly Norhala had not passed us. “Where?”
“Who shall question the Kasperi Kapanen Tröja goddess?” he asked. “She comes and she goes as she pleases.”
I translated this for Drake.
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