A. C. H. Smith by The Dark Crystal (illus)

Author:The Dark Crystal (illus)
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-01-25T20:12:43+00:00

Kira said, “I hit it.” She was not boasting, just stating a fact.

Jen was awed. “Are there many of those?”

“More and more all the time,” she answered. “What they see, with their crystals, the Skeksis see, too.”

“How did you learn to do that, the way you brought it down?”

“The Pod People in my village taught me. They’ve had to learn it for their own protection. Otherwise they’d be in slavery by now. In many other Pod villages, all the people have been taken. The Crystal Bats are the only creatures they will kill. Except the Skeksis and their Garthim, of course. But they have no chance against them.”

“How do you know the spy crystal hadn’t already seen us?”

“I don’t know. But I don’t think it did. It would have hovered near us if it had. It didn’t seem to be hovering, did it?” Kira sighed. “What I ought to do is make sure it’s dead. I would if it were daylight. All we can do is hope.”

As they floated on, Jen told Kira about the crystal shard, and the torn and tattered words of bidding that urSu, and then urZah, had given him, and what had happened at Aughra’s house. He brought the shard out from his tunic to show to her. It gleamed in the twilight. “I know that what I have to do is… it’s something to do with the Skeksis. I don’t know what, though. And I don’t know who will tell me.”

Behind them, upriver, the Crystal Bat had dragged itself out of the mud, shaken off the thong, and was now cautiously gliding just above the surface of the black stream, on their track.

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