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Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930
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In
the
strange
light,
which
was
oddly
like
moonlight
in
some
painted
desert
of
Earth,
shapes
were
distorted
and
somehow
menacing,
colors
were
raw,
almost
bleeding--and
distances
that
seemed
but
a
step
required
hours
to
traverse.
Ever
and
anon,
as
they
traveled
they
looked
back
up
at
the
Earth
which
was
their
home.
It
still
was
visible,
though
plainly
smaller
with
distance,
and
for
a
time
Sarka's
heart
misgave
him;
but
he
only
clasped
tighter
the
hand
of
Jaska
and
moved
on.
They
were
just
at
the
base
of
the
first
hill,
which
had
now
become
a
mountain
of
gloomy,
forbidding
aspect,
when
the
first
sound
they
had
heard
on
the
moon
came
to
them.
A
sound
that
was
a
commingling
of
the
laughter
of
Dalis,
the
barking
of
jackals
of
the
olden
times,
the
humming
of
a
million
Beryls
revolving
at
top
speed,
and
a
strident
buzzing
such
as
neither
had
ever
heard.
Had
they
been
discovered?
Was
the
sound
a
warning?
They
could
not
know;
but
as
they
stared
at
the
crest
of
the
hill,
two
long,
snaky,
waving
things
appeared
above
the
crest,
undulating,
waving
to
and
fro,
as
though
questing
for
something.
They
crouched
low
in
the
white
ashes
at
the
base
of
the
mountain,
and
waited,
scarcely
breathing.
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