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such women, two holding swords on us, while the third held an arrow notched on
her bow string, the weapons themselves, I "noted" with interest here, being
quite obviously "Imperial".
"We need a guide to take us to Valeris," Darlanis answered. I felt it
wise to let her do all the "talking" right now as while the Free Women and
California were "allies", the Dularnian Feder- ation was well known to be an
"enemy" of everything Valeris stood for. Our own military activities the year
before ample "proof"!
"It is several days' ride from here," another ventured then.
"In the airplane only an hour's flight," Darlanis answered.
"In the morning," the leader answered, easing her bow then.
"Down there," the woman said, pointing. In the close con- fines of the
airplane's cabin it was obvious she didn't have much acquaintance with soap
and water, or with bathing in general... They lived for the most part in small
villages, hard to see from the air unless you looked carefully due to their
living beneath large spreading trees which partly concealed them from above. I
might note here that many of these are built nearly underground.
"Looks `roomy' enough," Darlanis answered, circling around.
"The field is free from logs or anything, isn't it?" I said.
"I've never been here," the woman answered, grinning at me. The snow
covered terrain such that one could not really tell now.
"Lorraine will be `pissed' if we crash," Darlanis "grinned", coming
about for the landing, the ground coming up to meet us...
"Valeris is not here right now, but she will return tonight when the
`coven' is formed," the woman said, a sudden "chill" go- ing through me at her
words. Was Tara's "warning" TRUE? I felt a sort of "evil" that seemed to be
everywhere here, but was such a feeling just a "reaction" to the words I just
heard? The woman was tall, dark haired, in a way much like Lorraine save for
the differences in attire and not being pregnant. The smoky interior of
Valeris' "palace" like something out of an old legend. The attire of the "Free
Women" leaving no doubts as to their primi- tive life. They were a savage
people, living close to nature, people to whom life I suspected would mean
"little" now. The rough hewn logs of this big wooden structure reminded me of
de- scriptions I've read of long houses of the old time "Vikings". A couple of
male slaves, castrated men, were doing menial labors, a woman with a whip,
clad in furs, seeing that they did their work.
"I will require distilled pure alcohol, a hundred gallons of it, and
`strained' through silk," the Empress answered back, her hand on the hilt of
her sword, her eyes like some azure blaze... Like me she "understood" the
"implications" of the word "coven"!!
"I will `inform' the Queen," the woman answered, smiling. "There will be
a `great wonder' tonight," she added. The tone of her voice also implying
something then that terrified me. There was a "hint" of something, a "feeling"
in this place that we might be in great danger, but not from these people, but
from what? My strange "astral" sense was picking up something EVIL! And Tara's
letter had said that the EVIL ONE would "come" when the Moon was eclipsed,
leaving no doubts as to the "TRUTH" as the eclipse of the Moon was due tonight
shortly before midnight now!!
"Tara was `right'," I said as soon as we were alone, Darla- nis nodding,
a look in her eyes as if she had looked into the pits of Hell itself and saw
the ruler of that place face to face!
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"I wish I'd taught you to fly," Darlanis answered, looking out through
one of those strange "windows" the Free Women used. The tone of her voice
leaving no doubts as to her "feelings" now!
"We don't have enough fuel to reach Arsana," I pointed out. I knew that
much about the airplane, about its "requirements"...
"And we know `who' the `QUEEN OF DARKNESS' is," she spoke, drawing her
sword, the stainless steel thirty inch blade gleaming in the light that came
through the semi-transparent "window". I sensed the thoughts in her mind,
understood much just then of how she felt. I recalled what Lorraine had "said"
of her one time... "Guess Lorraine was `right' after all about `things'," she
added.
"They'll kill you!" I breathed, knowing "what" she planned.
"Better than having `Old Ugly' taking over," she answered.
"I'm going with you," I said, taking her hands in mine.
"We'll stand together before Lys," Darlanis answered.
"Quiet," Darlanis breathed, her sword gleaming in her hand. The sun had
set hours ago, the full Moon now up high there in the sky, a bit of it already
in the Earth's shadow. I could hear the howling of the gigantic wolves, the
sound making a cold chill go down my back as the fur clad Empress then
beckoned me forward. I recalled what Tara had written, of the "Gateway" that
would be opened between our own plane of existence and that called "HELL"! I
recalled the "spider thing" I'd seen there in the pits beneath my palace, the
other evil creatures that had been there with it! I could feel "something"
with my astral sense, a sense of "evil" somewhere nearby, the village
seemingly strangely deserted now...
"Valeris' palace would be the most `logical' place," I said. The Empress
nodding, giving me a smile more a forced grin then...
"Guards," Darlanis breathed, pushing me back into the shad- ows. She
was, I mused to myself, a rather competent Warrioress. Not a Lorraine or a
Carol, but I had confidence in Darlanis here. That it was unlikely that either
one of us would survive this was something I "accepted". As Darlanis had said
earlier when we had cut each other's hands to taste of each other's blood, the
action perhaps "one" only those of our own caste might "understand", we would
at least die as Warrioresses with our swords in our hands.
"Daggers would be best," I breathed, seeing Darlanis nod. I then stepped
out into the moonlit clearing before Valeris' rough hewn log palace, the two
fur clad women regarding us curiously, a howl from a wolf somewhere seemingly
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