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QUETZAL'S FLOCK They clasped each other in an embrace. Eridos smiled sardonically as Nuraghe limped out of sight. "I wonder if we will ever be friends, Kane Ashford. Somehow, I doubt it!" The Bole interjected. Kane jolted into alertness. Eridos' lips tightened. Kane eyed the metal cube, it appeared to have suffered no damage during the onslaught of crazed Picun. "My sensors record the imminent departure of the Ship from its present coordinates." Kane and Eridos limped to the rise of ground which surrounded the Arch on three sides. They were witnesses to the marvellous sight of the Ship rising from its distant nest. It was monstrous, a great, bloated, shimmering spheroid, which had expanded under his command and had made itself ready to evacuate the People of Jubal. From their vantage point, they could see the reaction of the tribesmen. They fell in awe to their faces, as it glided towards them and then hovered over their heads. It filled the sky and cast an immense shadow on to the plain. It landed gently, hardly disturbing the crust of the surface. Eridos let out a jagged breath and his jaw muscles tightened into knots. For a moment, Kane thought that he might repudiate his agreement and try to board her. He knew the Masters would not allow it. Eridos must have known too. He contented himself with watching the embarkation. Hammadi had a tight control of the herd and the people. A steady stream of white clad figures walked through the perimeter skin of the Ship. They were swallowed through the force field. The Picun were led through another area. They were a little more trouble, but this was solved by the herders leading them, one by one, until they were all safely aboard. In the end, two figures remained, otherwise, the plain was empty, except for the great bulk of the Ship. Even from the distance, Kane and Eridos could see that it was Hammadi and Nuraghe. The two brothers lifted their hands in a final salute. Kane already sensed that the distance between them was something more than the few kilometres of the red plain. They would never meet again. The people of Jubal were now the People of the Ship in the fullest sense of the phrase. Kane glanced at Eridos, his face was impassive, the only sign of emotion being the familiar tightening of the jaw muscles. They watched as the two brothers walked into the side of the Ship and were swallowed within. It took them time to find their way to the great open platform of the control room. Kane could visualise their progress through the Ship, perhaps pausing here and there to reassure or advise those who were no more than simple herders and who were now transported into an environment they couldn't even have imagined in their dreams. The Ship began to rise, vast, silent, destination unknown. It was beyond the business of the two solitary figures who remained. It rose swiftly, decreasing in size rapidly, until the tiny speck disappeared. "So, now we are alone, Kane Ashford. The only two left." "There's still one other, Eridos - Urartu. He told me he would remain in his cavern until the floor burst under him and he was overwhelmed by fire!" "And what about those who tended the fields around the Crag Caverns?" "I don't know, perhaps they stayed also - or maybe, Urartu sent them to Obeid and they went on the Ship." "I am surprised that you admit to things you do not know, my great, Lord Quetzal!" 162
QUETZAL'S FLOCK CHAPTER 25 The light of the red star glinted on the Pentacle around Kane's neck. The man whose image it carried, walked with him back to the Arch. Eridos had said that there could be no stranger union than that which existed between them, born as it was, out of thousands of years of hatred. They reached the Arch and the Bole. It was the one familiar thing which remained of his original life. The Masters of Psi were in full command. The inner man had fulfilled his and their purpose in that the Ship was gone and with it, the rescued people of the two Gens who had become one. Eridos voiced Kane's unspoken question. "Well, O great Lord Quetzal, what happens now?" "We wait!" His Companion of the Image didn't press the question, perhaps it was as well. 163
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