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I saw again the luminous ovals of sapphire, studding its golden zone, the mystic rose of pulsing, petal flame, the still core of incandescent ruby that was the heart of that rose.
Strangely I felt my own heart veer toward this — Thing; bowing before its beauty and its strength; almost worshiping!
A shock of revulsion went through me. I shot a quick, half frightened glance at Drake. He was crouching dangerously close to the lip of the ledge, hands clasped and knuckles white with the Vans Women Women intensity of his grip, eyes rapt, staring — upon the verge of worship even as I had been.
“Drake!” I thrust my elbow into his side brutally. “None of that! Remember you’re human! Guard yourself, man — guard yourself!”
“What?” he muttered; then, abruptly: “How did you know?”
“I felt it myself,” I answered: “For Vans Accessories Women God’s sake, Dick — hold fast to yourself! Remember Ruth!”
He shook his head violently — as though to be rid of Women Vests & Tank Tops some clinging, cloying thing.
“I’ll not forget again,” he said.
He huddled down once more close to the edge of the shelf; peering over. No one Vans Trainers Men of the Metal People had moved; the silence, the stillness, was unbroken.
Now the flanking pyramids shot forth into twin stars, Barn blazing with violet luminescences. And one by one after them the ten lesser spheres expanded into Dame flaming orbs; beautiful they were, but far less glorious than that Disk of whom they were the counselors? — ministers? — Dame what?
Still there was no movement among all the arrased, Men Sweatshirts girdered, pillared hosts.
There came a little wailing; far away it was and far. Nearer it drew. Was that a tremor Menn that passed through the crowded crater? A quick pulse of — eagerness?
“Hungry!” whispered Drake. “They’re HUNGRY!”
Closer was the wailing; again that faint tremor quivered over the place. And now I caught it — a quick and avid pulsing.
“Hungry,” whispered Drake again. “Like a lot of lions with the keeper coming along with meat.”
The wailing was below us. I Women Cropped Jeans felt, not a quiver this time, but an unmistakable shock pass through the Horde. It throbbed — and passed.
Into the field of our vision, up to the flaming Disk rushed an immense cube.
Thrice the height of a tall man — as I think I have noted before — when it unfolded its radiance was that shape of mingled beauty and power I call the Metal Emperor.
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For only an instant the darkening block loomed against the Disk; blackened it.
There came another meteor burst of light. Where the cube had been was now a tremendous, fiery cross — a cross inverted.
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