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In this captivating sequel to Palos of the Dog Star Pack, Jason Croft embarks on a thrilling new chapter of his adventures on Palos. Having shed his earthly form, his astral projection now inhabits the body of a Palosian man. With his exceptional knowledge and skills, the high priest hails Jason as the voice of God. However, this divine status threatens to derail his ultimate goal marrying Naia, the very reason for his journey. Will he be able to navigate the complexities of his new role while pursuing love? - Summary by Krista Zaleski
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Section twelve of Mouthpiece of Z two. This is a
LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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Read by Tom Frea The Mouthpiece of Z two by
(00:27):
John Ulrich Gezi, Chapter twelve on the Wings of a
zeal The end of the month following the election found
Kroft beginning to carry out his material plans, Robert coming
to Zeitra for the inauguration of jack Gor bringing Gaya
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and Naya with him. The latter, at Lacan's request, found
time to insist that Jason returned to Jimaira at once
and in statute the work they had before discussed, nor
to tell the truth was Croft in any way loathe. Indeed,
work was what he craved rather than a life such
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as for the past two weeks he had found himself
compelled to live in the Zitron pyramid. In addition, he
felt that the atmosphere of Zitra would be subtly changed
once Jaguar was upon the ground. While in affre with Roeber,
his friend and collaborator in his endeavors, the course of
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his plans would be cleared. Then too, he was thrilled
by the thought of contriving a material meeting with Naya
even more than by anything else. That thought it was
which set him to work on the development of electric
power first. Before that, however, he took zud and journey
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to Skira in a galley. Its hull glided its sails
of azure blue, with a blue canopy above its after deck,
driven by a motor rather than the oars which had
formerly projected from its waist. And at Skira he interviewed Korifu,
the head of the university, regarding the establishment of schools.
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It was arranged that he should induce Mutlass to take
the matter up with Jackgar and Croft, and the high
Priests sailed south to the mouth of the Nah and
up its yellow flood. Then once more Emyra's forges flared,
as they had flared for the greater part of that
strange year before. Roeber, Democratic despite his royal birth, went
(02:43):
with Croft to the shops. In them was posted a
notice printed from Jason's original alphabetical blocks, announcing that past
the command of the mouthpiece of Zeno, there was no
further word in all things pertaining to the development of
the things he had planned, Kraft found himself supreme. He
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directed and designed, while at the same time he cultivated
the friendship of his superintending captains and their men. One
of his first steps was to set about developing the
vein of coal he had discovered. He organized a band
of miners and a motor transport train. It was a
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strange site when the latter for the first time rolled forth.
Robert and he went with it and saw to the
starting of the work. Save for his faith in Jason,
the new governor of Auffur, would have doubted. Laughing, Kroft
gave him and the staring bands of miners and captains
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a demonstration and allayed their doubts. On the second day,
after the strippers were uncovering the vein and others of
the men were erecting cabins to house the workers, Robur
and he drove back. Copper, wire and rubber or a
substitute were what he next required. The first was easily
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gained for generations. The Tamarisians had worked in metal, as
shown by their couches, their molded doors, their carriages and chariots,
and their tempered swords and spears. Kroft sat hundreds of
the workers to the task of making wire. The second
requirement was far less readily gained, but he did not
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despair Affour's climate. Affur's climate was tropical. In the main,
he believed he might find some vegetable product such as
he needed for the insulation of the wires, and set
about an extensive questioning of the city's learned men. So
in the end he learned of a tree which exuded
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milk like sap in the forest south along the nah.
Thither he and Robert went straight away in a motor
driven galley, and the thing was done in theory, at least,
depending for its practical working out on the efforts of
an army of local natives, whom the two set to
gathering sap back again Innimyra save at night. Kroft gave
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himself little rest, and even at night, since on Robert's insistence,
he had taken up residence at the palace rather than
in the Himaryan pyramid. Robert and he discussed their plans
unless the governor was called by his duties somewhere else. Occasionally,
when this happened, Kroft talked with Gaya instead. In this way,
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he succeeded in winning her sympathetic understanding of his position,
even as concerning his love for Naya he had wanted
once before, and Guia, whose nature was characterized by a
sweet simplicity, questioned him frankly concerning the episode of Naya's
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attempted suicide in the pool. Robert swore to Zitu, he
believed you present in the same guise in which you
have told me you move when your body sleeps. Yes,
Robert was right, Kroft told her, and described step by
step what had occurred. The princess nodded. Now that Lakhan
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remains with Jack guar at Zetra, the maid grows lonely.
She declared. She has asked me to visit her. May
I speak with her concerning these things? If she mentions
to me her dreams. Kroft smiled on pay loss roun
earth woman, he thought was the same, and Gia, happy
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behind question in the arms of the man of her choice,
stood ready to lead or drive Naya a woman to
a mating if she could, and smiling, he nodded assent,
but added a caution, yet speak not of it, save
as of a dream wife of my true friend, for
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the growth of the soul must be as the growth
of a flower which the light of truth expands. His
wire being made, his rubber gathered, Kroft turned next to
the harnessing of the mountain stream. He chose copper for
his penstocks instead of wood, furnishing specifications to the molders
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for the sections of the pipe, and designing the model
of the turbines to be mounted in the pits. In
all things, Robert rendered him such assistance as he could,
while he never ceased to marvel at the very things
he planned. Mouthpiece of Zitu, you are indeed, he exclaimed,
again and again, with flashing eyes, as some new detail
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was unfolded to his mind. Let Jack gar be president
at his leisure. Thou and I, my Jason, shalt take
Tamarizia yet and make it a new world. And with
such a Lieutenant Kraft found his work advance. Wire was
being made in miles. Rubber was being delivered in enormous
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chunks from the commercial galleys down the nah, loaded onto
trucks along the keys drawn by the dog like creatures
harnessed to them through the merchandise tunnels beneath the streets
and stored in the huge warehouses against future use. Indeed,
all of Jimayra all affir hummed. At the end of
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the month, and the founders were beginning to turn out
the sections of the giant pen stock pipes. Thereupon Kroft
collected another train of motors, and, organizing a party of
road builders and masons, made his way into the hills
to select the site of his power station on the
mountain stream. At the camp he established beside the mountain torrent,
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he lost no time long, since he had cast aside
Zud's choice of temple dress for the metal leg cases,
the short skirted tunic of a military captain, falling half
way down the thighs and belted at the waist, a
costume affording the utmost freedom of movement while he directed
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the beginning of each task habited. Thus he sat one
day on the hill side, watching his laborers digging trenches
for the mighty penstocks, preparing the pits for the turbines, when,
with a crash through some nearby bushes, was thrust a
huge animal face open. It was gaping with a lolling
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red tongue and yellow fanglike teeth. For a moment and
it stared at him, panting, and then with a bound
the whole lithe creature advanced and flung itself against him
as he scrambled to his feet. Hi Hoopoor, he cried,
recognizing the huge houndlike beast which had fawned upon him
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once before in Lacan's mountain house, and excited Naya's comment
by the act. Then, as the creature dropped down beside
him and turned its eyes, he followed their direction with
his own and found his heart begin a gladden. Leaping
a trifle further up the hillside, Naya of Affur stood
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between two trees. Soft climbing sandals of nupa hide were
on her feet and embraced her tapering calves to just
below the knees. Brown was her garment above them, embroidered
simply in green, and on her golden hair was a
band of brown supporting a shimmering drape against the heat
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of the afternoon, and a curling plume green as the
leaves above it. In that first glance, it seemed to
Kraft that seemed so she was more beautiful than she
had ever been. He went toward her, his pulses hammering
in his ears. The giant beast trailing at his heels.
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Greetings made of affort, he said, when he stood before
her and bowed deeply from the hips in formal fashion,
hail mouthpiece of Zitu. Naya inclined her head. Did hup
or break upon your meditations, or or distract your attention
from the work in hand, Hugh poor An, I said Kroft,
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with a glance at the beast, are friends? Nor is
my work a thing requiring such haste that I may
not spare time to admire the fairest work of Zitu's hands.
A swift color mounted into Naya's cheeks. Her glance shifted.
I walk frequently with Hoopoor. She began a somewhat confused explanation.
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The temptation came upon me to inspect the work, which
I have watched from my father's home for the past
three sons since it began. Hoo poor, I think was
more surprised to see you than was I You expected
to find me. Kroft caught her words up quickly. Why not,
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she rejoined with an upward flash of her eyes. Is
not the work of Zitu's mouthpiece. Under his direction, her
manner changed became charged with covert meaning and more I dreamed, dreamed,
Kroft repeated, striving to steal a rising tumult in his
breast at what seemed a challenging of his spirit by hers. Nay,
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I know not, she said, almost faintly, while her white
lids quivered above each purple iris. But it was as
though one told me this stream was to be used
to bring new light to Himira, that such was a
part of your plans. Yes, he said, it is to Hamira,
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and to La Khan thy father's house, if so you desire,
and to all of Affir, all of Tamarizia in time,
if so you saw it, it would appear as a
vision rather than a dream made of aphor. Come and
I will show you its beginning and explain. For an hour.
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After that, she wandered with him and watching her now
and then Kraft surprised, a puzzled expression on her face.
Yet he said no definite word, since he knew that
the leaven of his past acts was working in her,
was slowly rising up until at last it should wake
her fully to the truth. It were hardly fitting were
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Lakhan's daughter not to offer to Zitu's mouthpiece the freedom
of Lakhan's house, she said at the last, when Kraft
had escorted her back to the mountain valley wherein the
palace was placed, and her tone was vaguely wistful. There
was something in her eyes that cried out to him
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wholly unlike that blue fire of scorn they had held
when she flung the betrothal seal of a zeal against
his breast. Jason the mouthpiece shall do himself the honor
of Lakhan's house when Lakhan is within it, he replied
with meaning, as he bowed and turned and left her,
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and heard her catch her breath. Yet he took with
him a song in his heart because of the invitation
which had faltered from her lips, Because as he knew
now the cry of spirit to speak, it was beginning
to actuate the flesh. And he walked more as a god, indeed,
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than a man, as he made his way back to
his workmen, threading his way on springing feet, glorying in
the strength of his free limb stride on the wooded slopes,
holding in his heart the knowledge that it was because
she had felt he would be present, because of an
urge to be near him, to speak with him as
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man and woman, that she had come to view the
new work, but he did not attempt to approach her
again in the astral condition during the week longer that
he remained at the sight of the power plant, nor
didn have venture to it any more. And so soon
as he was satisfied that his subordinates understood the exact
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scope of their duties, he returned to set about the
actual construction of the dynamo that water driven should light
Myra with a myriad of glowing lamps. But that night,
after he had received Robeut's report of progress and they
had talked over the dynamo plans, he sought his own
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apartment and stretched himself upon his couch. And then he
went seeking the two women who in all his life
he had known the best, because he thought that it
would be on this first night with Gaya that Nya
would unburden herself. Failing to find them in the palace,
he sought and found them in the garden. Seated on
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a carved bench of stone inside the vine grown walls
of the pool, Naya's eyes were fixed upon its surface,
silvered by the light of Palos's moons. Very wide and dark,
they seemed beneath the shadow of her hair. Her lips moved.
Whether these be dreams induced by those things of which
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you told me were, Whether too much thinking has tired
my mind until it makes a vain imaginings the seeming
of other thought? I know not, she said, in a
musing voice. Yet even as you said he had told
my cousin Robert that he left his body, so has
it seemed to me that I left my flesh? When
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he called me to him that hand in hand, we
wandered forth together to himaira over the mountains, And once
that we had leaped all space, as he says, his
spirit leaped from earth to Paylass, and stood upon the
larger of the moons up yonder, whose light sparkles here
on the pool ze too. Gaya's tones were a trifle unsteady,
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filled with a certain awe as Kroft waited her answer,
But Nia swe'd, maid may not dreams in body truth.
If dreams they be, I think it may be so.
Her companion rejoined. For on that time we went to Hmayra,
as it seemed I saw my father asleep, and he
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whispered my name. And the next time he came to me.
He spoke to me about it, said that he saw
me standing beside him and had called me, and abruptly,
her soft voice took on the speaking semblance of a child. Gia.
The night was the same on which I had my dream,
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and again on an afternoon, when it seemed he called me,
and we wandered over hill and valley where flowers bloomed,
and up to the everlasting snows. It seemed also that
on returning, Maya thought that I had died, and he
bade me back into my body, promising to come to
me again. And when I woke, Maya and Mitlass stood
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beside me in tears and terror, thinking my spirit flown. Gia,
how explain such things as these? I may not tell you?
Guya faltered In these days since Zityu's mouthpiece came among us,
Affir and all Tameerisia have witnessed wondrous sights, have dreamed
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of undreamed truths. Mouthpiece of Zitu Nya repeated, turning to
face her companion. I like not the name Jason. He
calls himself to me in my dreams, and as Jason,
I prefer to think of him as Jason, A man
an an my lover, Ah, Gya. Should I blush for
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such a thought? Nay, thou art a woman ripe for loving,
Guya reassured her quickly, And to women be they fit.
I think that Ga herself sends dreams, dreams. Abruptly, Nyah
clenched a fist and struck the tapered outline of her thigh.
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Dreams A dreams, they must be, Gya, For to me
he came no more again. Only when I thought not
of his coming did it happen. And since when I
have called him sought once more to sleep and find him,
it is vain. Yet if I be shameless, let me
speak the same. Greater happiness have I never known since
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I tore the seal of a zeal from my girdle. Then,
when in my sleep he called me to him, and
I answered, and saw him standing before me in my chamber,
fair as a zeal himself, with his form shot through
by the soft light of the moon. Or when I slept,
then Maya fanned me, and he came and led me
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into the outer world, where he wandered in far places.
He and I alone. You saw him while he was
in the mountains. Guya asked as her companion paused, causing
Kroft to smile as he saw her intent to learn
what he himself had not told. Yes, what am I saying, Gaya,
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I forget myself, even as that day I forgot myself
and bade him to my father's house. Suddenly she broke
off to throw her arms about Gya's neck and bury
her face gone white in the silver moonlight against her breast,
and the arms of the older woman crept about her.
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He replied he would enter it when Lakhan was within it.
Naya told her in a smothered voice, as he would,
were he careful of your honor, Guya held her close. Child.
When my visit is ended, you must return with me
to Himira, nor longer spend your time in dreams and thoughts.
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But Nia sat up abruptly. Her question came with a
sweetly feminine inconsistency. Would he not think I sought his presence?
Were I to accompany you to the palace? Are you
not roverse? Cousin? Guya answered? Can he expect you to
remain forever in your father's house? Croft's smile was very
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tender as he turned away. Time in those dreams of
hers were fighting his battle for him in Naya's soul,
and had he need of other assistance in winning the
one woman he desired in a million worlds or years.
Gia was his lieutenant. He blessed her as he returned
to Himyra, for that propinquity of Naya and himself in
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the future, that feminine endeavor at match making for which
he now knew that she schemed. End of Section twelve.
Section twelve of Mouthpiece of Z two. This is a
LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
To learn more or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
Read by Tom Frea The Mouthpiece of Z two by
(00:27):
John Ulrich Gezi, Chapter twelve on the Wings of a
zeal The end of the month following the election found
Kroft beginning to carry out his material plans, Robert coming
to Zeitra for the inauguration of jack Gor bringing Gaya
(00:49):
and Naya with him. The latter, at Lacan's request, found
time to insist that Jason returned to Jimaira at once
and in statute the work they had before discussed, nor
to tell the truth was Croft in any way loathe. Indeed,
work was what he craved rather than a life such
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as for the past two weeks he had found himself
compelled to live in the Zitron pyramid. In addition, he
felt that the atmosphere of Zitra would be subtly changed
once Jaguar was upon the ground. While in affre with Roeber,
his friend and collaborator in his endeavors, the course of
(01:32):
his plans would be cleared. Then too, he was thrilled
by the thought of contriving a material meeting with Naya
even more than by anything else. That thought it was
which set him to work on the development of electric
power first. Before that, however, he took zud and journey
(01:53):
to Skira in a galley. Its hull glided its sails
of azure blue, with a blue canopy above its after deck,
driven by a motor rather than the oars which had
formerly projected from its waist. And at Skira he interviewed Korifu,
the head of the university, regarding the establishment of schools.
(02:17):
It was arranged that he should induce Mutlass to take
the matter up with Jackgar and Croft, and the high
Priests sailed south to the mouth of the Nah and
up its yellow flood. Then once more Emyra's forges flared,
as they had flared for the greater part of that
strange year before. Roeber, Democratic despite his royal birth, went
(02:43):
with Croft to the shops. In them was posted a
notice printed from Jason's original alphabetical blocks, announcing that past
the command of the mouthpiece of Zeno, there was no
further word in all things pertaining to the development of
the things he had planned, Kraft found himself supreme. He
(03:05):
directed and designed, while at the same time he cultivated
the friendship of his superintending captains and their men. One
of his first steps was to set about developing the
vein of coal he had discovered. He organized a band
of miners and a motor transport train. It was a
(03:26):
strange site when the latter for the first time rolled forth.
Robert and he went with it and saw to the
starting of the work. Save for his faith in Jason,
the new governor of Auffur, would have doubted. Laughing, Kroft
gave him and the staring bands of miners and captains
(03:48):
a demonstration and allayed their doubts. On the second day,
after the strippers were uncovering the vein and others of
the men were erecting cabins to house the workers, Robur
and he drove back. Copper, wire and rubber or a
substitute were what he next required. The first was easily
(04:11):
gained for generations. The Tamarisians had worked in metal, as
shown by their couches, their molded doors, their carriages and chariots,
and their tempered swords and spears. Kroft sat hundreds of
the workers to the task of making wire. The second
requirement was far less readily gained, but he did not
(04:35):
despair Affour's climate. Affur's climate was tropical. In the main,
he believed he might find some vegetable product such as
he needed for the insulation of the wires, and set
about an extensive questioning of the city's learned men. So
in the end he learned of a tree which exuded
(04:57):
milk like sap in the forest south along the nah.
Thither he and Robert went straight away in a motor
driven galley, and the thing was done in theory, at least,
depending for its practical working out on the efforts of
an army of local natives, whom the two set to
gathering sap back again Innimyra save at night. Kroft gave
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himself little rest, and even at night, since on Robert's insistence,
he had taken up residence at the palace rather than
in the Himaryan pyramid. Robert and he discussed their plans
unless the governor was called by his duties somewhere else. Occasionally,
when this happened, Kroft talked with Gaya instead. In this way,
(05:47):
he succeeded in winning her sympathetic understanding of his position,
even as concerning his love for Naya he had wanted
once before, and Guia, whose nature was characterized by a
sweet simplicity, questioned him frankly concerning the episode of Naya's
(06:08):
attempted suicide in the pool. Robert swore to Zitu, he
believed you present in the same guise in which you
have told me you move when your body sleeps. Yes,
Robert was right, Kroft told her, and described step by
step what had occurred. The princess nodded. Now that Lakhan
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remains with Jack guar at Zetra, the maid grows lonely.
She declared. She has asked me to visit her. May
I speak with her concerning these things? If she mentions
to me her dreams. Kroft smiled on pay loss roun
earth woman, he thought was the same, and Gia, happy
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behind question in the arms of the man of her choice,
stood ready to lead or drive Naya a woman to
a mating if she could, and smiling, he nodded assent,
but added a caution, yet speak not of it, save
as of a dream wife of my true friend, for
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the growth of the soul must be as the growth
of a flower which the light of truth expands. His
wire being made, his rubber gathered, Kroft turned next to
the harnessing of the mountain stream. He chose copper for
his penstocks instead of wood, furnishing specifications to the molders
(07:36):
for the sections of the pipe, and designing the model
of the turbines to be mounted in the pits. In
all things, Robert rendered him such assistance as he could,
while he never ceased to marvel at the very things
he planned. Mouthpiece of Zitu, you are indeed, he exclaimed,
again and again, with flashing eyes, as some new detail
(08:00):
was unfolded to his mind. Let Jack gar be president
at his leisure. Thou and I, my Jason, shalt take
Tamarizia yet and make it a new world. And with
such a Lieutenant Kraft found his work advance. Wire was
being made in miles. Rubber was being delivered in enormous
(08:22):
chunks from the commercial galleys down the nah, loaded onto
trucks along the keys drawn by the dog like creatures
harnessed to them through the merchandise tunnels beneath the streets
and stored in the huge warehouses against future use. Indeed,
all of Jimayra all affir hummed. At the end of
(08:45):
the month, and the founders were beginning to turn out
the sections of the giant pen stock pipes. Thereupon Kroft
collected another train of motors, and, organizing a party of
road builders and masons, made his way into the hills
to select the site of his power station on the
mountain stream. At the camp he established beside the mountain torrent,
(09:10):
he lost no time long, since he had cast aside
Zud's choice of temple dress for the metal leg cases,
the short skirted tunic of a military captain, falling half
way down the thighs and belted at the waist, a
costume affording the utmost freedom of movement while he directed
(09:31):
the beginning of each task habited. Thus he sat one
day on the hill side, watching his laborers digging trenches
for the mighty penstocks, preparing the pits for the turbines, when,
with a crash through some nearby bushes, was thrust a
huge animal face open. It was gaping with a lolling
(09:55):
red tongue and yellow fanglike teeth. For a moment and
it stared at him, panting, and then with a bound
the whole lithe creature advanced and flung itself against him
as he scrambled to his feet. Hi Hoopoor, he cried,
recognizing the huge houndlike beast which had fawned upon him
(10:17):
once before in Lacan's mountain house, and excited Naya's comment
by the act. Then, as the creature dropped down beside
him and turned its eyes, he followed their direction with
his own and found his heart begin a gladden. Leaping
a trifle further up the hillside, Naya of Affur stood
(10:38):
between two trees. Soft climbing sandals of nupa hide were
on her feet and embraced her tapering calves to just
below the knees. Brown was her garment above them, embroidered
simply in green, and on her golden hair was a
band of brown supporting a shimmering drape against the heat
(11:00):
of the afternoon, and a curling plume green as the
leaves above it. In that first glance, it seemed to
Kraft that seemed so she was more beautiful than she
had ever been. He went toward her, his pulses hammering
in his ears. The giant beast trailing at his heels.
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Greetings made of affort, he said, when he stood before
her and bowed deeply from the hips in formal fashion,
hail mouthpiece of Zitu. Naya inclined her head. Did hup
or break upon your meditations, or or distract your attention
from the work in hand, Hugh poor An, I said Kroft,
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with a glance at the beast, are friends? Nor is
my work a thing requiring such haste that I may
not spare time to admire the fairest work of Zitu's hands.
A swift color mounted into Naya's cheeks. Her glance shifted.
I walk frequently with Hoopoor. She began a somewhat confused explanation.
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The temptation came upon me to inspect the work, which
I have watched from my father's home for the past
three sons since it began. Hoo poor, I think was
more surprised to see you than was I You expected
to find me. Kroft caught her words up quickly. Why not,
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she rejoined with an upward flash of her eyes. Is
not the work of Zitu's mouthpiece. Under his direction, her
manner changed became charged with covert meaning and more I dreamed, dreamed,
Kroft repeated, striving to steal a rising tumult in his
breast at what seemed a challenging of his spirit by hers. Nay,
(12:55):
I know not, she said, almost faintly, while her white
lids quivered above each purple iris. But it was as
though one told me this stream was to be used
to bring new light to Himira, that such was a
part of your plans. Yes, he said, it is to Hamira,
(13:16):
and to La Khan thy father's house, if so you desire,
and to all of Affir, all of Tamarizia in time,
if so you saw it, it would appear as a
vision rather than a dream made of aphor. Come and
I will show you its beginning and explain. For an hour.
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After that, she wandered with him and watching her now
and then Kraft surprised, a puzzled expression on her face.
Yet he said no definite word, since he knew that
the leaven of his past acts was working in her,
was slowly rising up until at last it should wake
her fully to the truth. It were hardly fitting were
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Lakhan's daughter not to offer to Zitu's mouthpiece the freedom
of Lakhan's house, she said at the last, when Kraft
had escorted her back to the mountain valley wherein the
palace was placed, and her tone was vaguely wistful. There
was something in her eyes that cried out to him
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wholly unlike that blue fire of scorn they had held
when she flung the betrothal seal of a zeal against
his breast. Jason the mouthpiece shall do himself the honor
of Lakhan's house when Lakhan is within it, he replied
with meaning, as he bowed and turned and left her,
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and heard her catch her breath. Yet he took with
him a song in his heart because of the invitation
which had faltered from her lips, Because as he knew
now the cry of spirit to speak, it was beginning
to actuate the flesh. And he walked more as a god, indeed,
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than a man, as he made his way back to
his workmen, threading his way on springing feet, glorying in
the strength of his free limb stride on the wooded slopes,
holding in his heart the knowledge that it was because
she had felt he would be present, because of an
urge to be near him, to speak with him as
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man and woman, that she had come to view the
new work, but he did not attempt to approach her
again in the astral condition during the week longer that
he remained at the sight of the power plant, nor
didn have venture to it any more. And so soon
as he was satisfied that his subordinates understood the exact
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scope of their duties, he returned to set about the
actual construction of the dynamo that water driven should light
Myra with a myriad of glowing lamps. But that night,
after he had received Robeut's report of progress and they
had talked over the dynamo plans, he sought his own
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apartment and stretched himself upon his couch. And then he
went seeking the two women who in all his life
he had known the best, because he thought that it
would be on this first night with Gaya that Nya
would unburden herself. Failing to find them in the palace,
he sought and found them in the garden. Seated on
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a carved bench of stone inside the vine grown walls
of the pool, Naya's eyes were fixed upon its surface,
silvered by the light of Palos's moons. Very wide and dark,
they seemed beneath the shadow of her hair. Her lips moved.
Whether these be dreams induced by those things of which
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you told me were, Whether too much thinking has tired
my mind until it makes a vain imaginings the seeming
of other thought? I know not, she said, in a
musing voice. Yet even as you said he had told
my cousin Robert that he left his body, so has
it seemed to me that I left my flesh? When
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he called me to him that hand in hand, we
wandered forth together to himaira over the mountains, And once
that we had leaped all space, as he says, his
spirit leaped from earth to Paylass, and stood upon the
larger of the moons up yonder, whose light sparkles here
on the pool ze too. Gaya's tones were a trifle unsteady,
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filled with a certain awe as Kroft waited her answer,
But Nia swe'd, maid may not dreams in body truth.
If dreams they be, I think it may be so.
Her companion rejoined. For on that time we went to Hmayra,
as it seemed I saw my father asleep, and he
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whispered my name. And the next time he came to me.
He spoke to me about it, said that he saw
me standing beside him and had called me, and abruptly,
her soft voice took on the speaking semblance of a child. Gia.
The night was the same on which I had my dream,
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and again on an afternoon, when it seemed he called me,
and we wandered over hill and valley where flowers bloomed,
and up to the everlasting snows. It seemed also that
on returning, Maya thought that I had died, and he
bade me back into my body, promising to come to
me again. And when I woke, Maya and Mitlass stood
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beside me in tears and terror, thinking my spirit flown. Gia,
how explain such things as these? I may not tell you?
Guya faltered In these days since Zityu's mouthpiece came among us,
Affir and all Tameerisia have witnessed wondrous sights, have dreamed
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of undreamed truths. Mouthpiece of Zitu Nya repeated, turning to
face her companion. I like not the name Jason. He
calls himself to me in my dreams, and as Jason,
I prefer to think of him as Jason, A man
an an my lover, Ah, Gya. Should I blush for
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such a thought? Nay, thou art a woman ripe for loving,
Guya reassured her quickly, And to women be they fit.
I think that Ga herself sends dreams, dreams. Abruptly, Nyah
clenched a fist and struck the tapered outline of her thigh.
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Dreams A dreams, they must be, Gya, For to me
he came no more again. Only when I thought not
of his coming did it happen. And since when I
have called him sought once more to sleep and find him,
it is vain. Yet if I be shameless, let me
speak the same. Greater happiness have I never known since
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I tore the seal of a zeal from my girdle. Then,
when in my sleep he called me to him, and
I answered, and saw him standing before me in my chamber,
fair as a zeal himself, with his form shot through
by the soft light of the moon. Or when I slept,
then Maya fanned me, and he came and led me
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into the outer world, where he wandered in far places.
He and I alone. You saw him while he was
in the mountains. Guya asked as her companion paused, causing
Kroft to smile as he saw her intent to learn
what he himself had not told. Yes, what am I saying, Gaya,
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I forget myself, even as that day I forgot myself
and bade him to my father's house. Suddenly she broke
off to throw her arms about Gya's neck and bury
her face gone white in the silver moonlight against her breast,
and the arms of the older woman crept about her.
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He replied he would enter it when Lakhan was within it.
Naya told her in a smothered voice, as he would,
were he careful of your honor, Guya held her close. Child.
When my visit is ended, you must return with me
to Himira, nor longer spend your time in dreams and thoughts.
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But Nia sat up abruptly. Her question came with a
sweetly feminine inconsistency. Would he not think I sought his presence?
Were I to accompany you to the palace? Are you
not roverse? Cousin? Guya answered? Can he expect you to
remain forever in your father's house? Croft's smile was very
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tender as he turned away. Time in those dreams of
hers were fighting his battle for him in Naya's soul,
and had he need of other assistance in winning the
one woman he desired in a million worlds or years.
Gia was his lieutenant. He blessed her as he returned
to Himyra, for that propinquity of Naya and himself in
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the future, that feminine endeavor at match making for which
he now knew that she schemed. End of Section twelve.
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