Kulun loosed his hood1, let it fall about his shoulders.
He stepped forward, held out his arms to Norhala.
“A strong man!” she cried approvingly. “Hail — my bridegroom! But stay — stand back a moment. Stand beside that man for whom I came to Ruszark. I would see you together!”
Kulun’s face darkened. But Cherkis smiled with evil understanding, shrugged2 his shoulders and whispered to him. Sullenly3 Kulun stepped back. The ring of the archers4 lowered their bows; they leaped to their feet and stood aside to let him pass.
Quick as a serpent’s tongue a pyramid tipped tentacle5 flicked6 out beneath us. It darted7 through the broken circle of the bowmen.
It LICKED up Ruth and Ventnor and — Kulun!
Swiftly as it had swept forth8 it returned, coiled and dropped those two I loved at Norhala’s feet.
It flashed back on high with the scarlet9 length of Cherkis’s son sprawled10 along its angled end.
The great body of Cherkis seemed to wither11.
Up from all the wall went a tempestuous12 sigh of horror.
Out rang the merciless chimes of Norhala’s laughter.
“Tchai!” she cried. “Tchai! Fat fool there. Tchai — you Cherkis! Toad13 whose wits have sickened with your years!
“Did you think to catch me, Norhala, in your filthy14 web? Princess! Queen! Empress of Earth! Ho — old fox I have outplayed and beaten, what now have you to trade with Norhala?”
Mouth sagging15 open, eyes glaring, the tyrant16 slowly raised his arms — a suppliant17.
“You would have back the bridegroom you gave me?” she laughed. “Take him, then.”
Down swept the metal arm that held Kulun. The arm dropped Cherkis’s son at Cherkis’s feet; and as though Kulun had been a grape — it crushed him!
Before those who had seen could stir from their stupor18 the tentacle hovered19 over Cherkis, glaring down at the horror that had been his son.
It did not strike him — it drew him up to it as a magnet draws a pin.
And as the pin swings from the magnet when held suspended by the head, so swung the great body of Cherkis from the under side of the pyramid that held him. Hanging so he was carried toward us, came to a stop not ten feet from us —
Weird20, weird beyond all telling was that scene — and would I had the power to make you who read see it as we did.
The animate21, living Shape of metal on which we stood, with its forest of hammer-handed arms raised menacingly along its mile of spindled length; the great walls glistening22 with the armored hosts; the terraces of that fair and ancient city, their gardens and green groves23 and clustering red and yellow-roofed houses and temples and palaces; the swinging gross body of Cherkis in the clutch of the unseen grip of the tentacle, his grizzled hair touching24 the side of the pyramid that held him, his arms half outstretched, the gemmed25 cloak flapping like the wings of a jeweled bat, his white, malignant26 face in which the evil eyes were burning slits27 flaming hell’s own blackest hatred28; and beyond the city, from which pulsed almost visibly a vast and hopeless horror, the watching column — and over all this the palely radiant white sky under whose light the encircling cliffs were tremendous stony29 palettes splashed with a hundred pigments30.
Norhala’s laughter had ceased. Somberly she looked upon Cherkis, into the devil fires of his eyes.
“Cherkis!” she half whispered. “Now comes the end for you — and for all that is yours! But until the end’s end you shall see.”
The hanging body was thrust forward; was thrust up; was brought down upon its feet on the upper plane of the prostrate31 pyramid tipping the metal arm that held him. For an instant he struggled to escape; I think he meant to hurl32 himself down upon Norhala, to kill her before he himself was slain33.
If so, after one frenzied34 effort he realized the futility35, for with a certain dignity he drew himself upright, turned his eyes toward the city.
Over that city a dreadful silence hung. It was as though it cowered36, hid its face, was afraid to breathe.
“The end!” murmured Norhala.
There was a quick trembling through the Metal Thing. Down swung its forest of sledges37. Beneath the blow down fell the smitten38 walls, shattered, crumbling39, and with it glittering like shining flies in a dust storm fell the armored men.
Through that mile-wide breach41 and up to the inner barrier I glimpsed confusion chaotic42. And again I say it — they were no cowards, those men of Cherkis. From the inner battlements flew clouds of arrows, of huge stones — as uselessly as before.
Then out from the opened gates poured regiments43 of horsemen, brandishing44 javelins45 and great maces, and shouting fiercely as they drove down upon each end of the Metal Shape. Under cover of their attack I saw cloaked riders spurring their ponies46 across the plain to shelter of the cliff walls, to the chance of hiding places within them. Women and men of the rich, the powerful, flying for safety; after them ran and scattered47 through the fields of grain a multitude on foot.
The ends of the spindle drew back before the horsemen’s charge, broadening as they went — like the heads of monstrous48 cobras withdrawing into their hoods49. Abruptly50, with a lightning velocity51, these broadenings expanded into immense lunettes, two tremendous curving and crablike52 claws. Their tips flung themselves past the racing53 troops; then like gigantic pincers began to contract.
Of no avail now was it for the horsemen to halt dragging their mounts on their haunches, or to turn to fly. The ends of the lunettes had met, the pincer tips had closed. The mounted men were trapped within half-mile-wide circles. And in upon man and horse their living walls marched. Within those enclosures of the doomed54 began a frantic55 milling — I shut my eyes —
There was a dreadful screaming of horses, a shrieking56 of men. Then silence.
Shuddering57, I looked. Where the mounted men had been was — nothing.
Nothing? There were two great circular spaces whose floors were glistening, wetly red. Fragments of man or horse — there was none. They had been crushed into — what was it Norhala had promised — had been stamped into the rock beneath the feet of her — servants.
Sick, I looked away and stared at a Thing that writhed58 and undulated over the plain; a prodigious59 serpentine60 Shape of cubes and spheres linked and studded thick with the spikes61 of the pyramid. Through the fields, over the plain its coils flashed.
Playfully it sped and twisted among the fugitives64, crushing them, tossing them aside broken, gliding65 over them. Some there were who hurled66 themselves upon it in impotent despair, some who knelt before it, praying. On rolled the metal convolutions, inexorable.
Within my vision’s range there were no more fugitives. Around a corner of the broken battlements raced the serpent Shape. Where it had writhed was now no waving grain, no trees, no green thing. There was only smooth rock upon which here and there red smears67 glistened68 wetly.
Afar there was a crying, in its wake a rumbling40. It was the column, it came to me, at work upon the further battlements. As though the sound had been a signal the spindle trembled; up we were thrust another hundred feet or more. Back dropped the host of brandished69 arms, threaded themselves into the parent bulk.
Right and left of us the spindle split into scores of fissures70. Between these fissures the Metal Things that made up each now dissociate and shapeless mass geysered; block and sphere and tetrahedron spike62 spun71 and swirled72. There was an instant of formlessness.
Then right and left of us stood scores of giant, grotesque73 warriors75. Their crests76 were fully63 fifty feet below our living platform. They stood upon six immense, columnar stilts77. These sextuple legs supported a hundred feet above their bases a huge and globular body formed of clusters of the spheres. Out from each of these bodies that were at one and the same time trunks and heads, sprang half a score of colossal78 arms shaped like flails79; like spike-studded girders, Titanic80 battle maces, Cyclopean sledges.
From legs and trunks and arms the tiny eyes of the Metal Hordes81 flashed, exulting82.
There came from them, from the Thing we rode as well, a chorus of thin and eager wailings and pulsed through all that battle-line, a jubilant throbbing83.
Then with a rhythmic84, JOCUND85 stride they leaped upon the city.
Under the mallets of the smiting86 arms the inner battlements fell as under the hammers of a thousand metal Thors. Over their fragments and the armored men who fell with them strode the Things, grinding stone and man together as we passed.
All of the terraced city except the side hidden by the mount lay open to my gaze. In that brief moment of pause I saw crazed crowds battling in narrow streets, trampling87 over mounds88 of the fallen, surging over barricades90 of bodies, clawing and tearing at each other in their flight.
There was a wide, stepped street of gleaming white stone that climbed like an immense stairway straight up the slope to that broad plaza91 at the top where clustered the great temples and palaces — the Acropolis of the city. Into it the streets of the terraces flowed, each pouring out upon it a living torrent92, tumultuous with tuliped, sparkling little waves, the gay coverings and the arms and armor of Ruszark’s desperate thousands seeking safety at the shrines93 of their gods.
Here great carven arches arose; there slender, exquisite94 towers capped with red gold — there was a street of colossal statues, another over which dozens of graceful95, fretted96 bridges threw their spans from feathery billows of flowering trees; there were gardens gay with blossoms in which fountains sparkled, green groves; thousands upon thousands of bright multicolored pennants97, banners, fluttered.
A fair, a lovely city was Cherkis’s stronghold of Ruszark.
Its beauty filled the eyes; out from it streamed the fragrance98 of its gardens — the voice of its agony was that of the souls in Dis.
The row of destroying shapes lengthened99, each huge warrior74 of metal drawing far apart from its mates. They flexed100 their manifold arms, shadow boxed — grotesquely101, dreadfully.
Down struck the flails, the sledges. Beneath the blows the buildings burst like eggshells, their fragments burying the throngs102 fighting for escape in the thoroughfares that threaded them. Over their ruins we moved.
Down and ever down crashed the awful sledges. And ever under them the city crumbled103.
There was a spider Shape that crawled up the wide stairway hammering into the stone those who tried to flee before it.
Stride by stride the Destroying Things ate up the city.
I felt neither wrath104 nor pity. Through me beat a jubilant roaring pulse — as though I were a shouting corpuscle of the rushing hurricane, as though I were one of the hosts of smiting spirits of the bellowing105 typhoon.
Through this stole another thought — vague, unfamiliar106, yet seemingly of truth’s own essence. Why, I wondered, had I never recognized this before? Why had I never known that these green forms called trees were but ugly, unsymmetrical excrescences? That these high projections107 of towers, these buildings were deformities?
That these four-pronged, moving little shapes that screamed and ran were — hideous108?
They must be wiped out! All this misshapen, jumbled109, inharmonious ugliness must be wiped out! It must be ground down to smooth unbroken planes, harmonious110 curvings, shapeliness — harmonies of arc and line and angle!
Something deep within me fought to speak — fought to tell me that this thought was not human thought, not my thought — that it was the reflected thought of the Metal Things!
It told me — and fiercely it struggled to make me realize what it was that it told. Its insistence111 was borne upon little despairing, rhythmic beatings — throbbings that were like the muffled112 sobbings of the drums of grief. Louder, closer came the throbbing; clearer with it my perception of the inhumanness of my thought.
The drum beat tapped at my humanity, became a dolorous114 knocking at my heart.
It was the sobbing113 of Cherkis!
The gross face was shrunken, the cheeks sagging in folds of woe115; cruelty and wickedness were wiped from it; the evil in the eyes had been washed out by tears. Eyes streaming, bull throat and barrel chest racked by his sobbing, he watched the passing of his people and his city.
And relentlessly116, coldly, Norhala watched him — as though loath117 to lose the faintest shadow of his agony.
Now I saw we were close to the top of the mount. Packed between us and the immense white structures that crowned it were thousands of the people. They fell on their knees before us, prayed to us. They tore at each other, striving to hide themselves from us in the mass that was themselves. They beat against the barred doors of the sanctuaries118; they climbed the pillars; they swarmed119 over the golden roofs.
There was a moment of chaos120 — a chaos of which we were the heart. Then temple and palace cracked, burst; were shattered; fell. I caught glimpses of gleaming sculptures, glitterings of gold and of silver, flashing of gems121, shimmering122 of gorgeous draperies — under them a weltering of men and women.
We closed down upon them — over them!
The dreadful sobbing ceased. I saw the head of Cherkis swing heavily upon a shoulder; the eyes closed.
The Destroying Things touched. Their flailing123 arms coiled back, withdrew into their bodies. They joined, forming for an instant a tremendous hollow pillar far down in whose center we stood. They parted; shifted in shape? rolled down the mount over the ruins like a widening wave — crushing into the stone all over which they passed.
Afar away I saw the gleaming serpent still at play — still writhing124 among, still obliterating125 the few score scattered fugitives that some way, somehow, had slipped by the Destroying Things.
We halted. For one long moment Norhala looked upon the drooping126 body of him upon whom she had let fall this mighty127 vengeance128.
Then the metal arm that held Cherkis whirled. Thrown from it, the cloaked form flew like a great blue bat. It fell upon the flattened129 mound89 that had once been the proud crown of his city. A blue blot130 upon desolation the broken body of Cherkis lay.
A black speck131 appeared high in the sky; grew fast — the lammergeier.
“I have left carrion132 for you — after all!” cried Norhala.
With an ebon swirling133 of wings the vulture dropped beside the blue heap — thrust in it its beak134.
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sullenly
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tentacle
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flicked
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forth
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scarlet
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sprawled
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wither
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tempestuous
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toad
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filthy
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sagging
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tyrant
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suppliant
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stupor
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hovered
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weird
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glistening
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groves
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slits
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hatred
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stony
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prostrate
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hurl
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slain
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futility
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cowered
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smitten
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breach
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regiments
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brandishing
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monstrous
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shrieking
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gliding
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projections
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sanctuaries
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