Elysia: The Coming of CTHULHU by Brian Lumley

Author:Brian Lumley
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780312868666
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2000-10-18T22:00:00+00:00

hung over Zura the land, and once again the Princess Zura commanded her legions of the morbidly dead. But corpses disintegrate all too quickly, and suitable lovers are rare in the ranks of the direfully dead and last only a little while. So Zura dreamed dreams within dreams of a great disaster, which would send dreamland's peoples to her in their thousands, and a war where they would slaughter each other mindlessly but no disaster came, and the peoples of dream war hardly at all. And so her frustration grew .

Then -

- Then came Gudge and his 'pirates'? Oh, that peculiar band of supposed buccaneers fooled her not at all she knew who and what they were, if not what they were about They'd be up to no good, be sure, but fell motives were not Zura's concern.

What they offered was this: that if Zura step aside ark give them free run of the skies over Zura and land adjacent, and if she make no report of them or their presence here - in other words, ignore them entirely ant let them get on with their dubious business - then they'd send her the poor doomed remains of crews and passenger of all the vessels they intended to sack over and mum Zura the land, Thalarion, and the Southern Sea Fo ostensibly they were to be pirates, and where pirates sai death is a frequent occurrence and corpses very COMMIX place. Lathi of Thalarion had been likewise approached though in her case (because she had no interest in cadavers the pressure applied had been that of sheer threat us disguised: if she failed to accept the presence of the pirate or created any sort of difficulty for them, then they'd simply fire-bomb Thalarion the hive; which the eidolon Lathi knew all too well would prove a very harrowing an possibly fatal experience!

Zura had considered, and it had seemed to her that at was getting the better of the bargain; Gudge, as he callled, himself, had not even requested harbour or mooring for ship, in Zura (oh, yes, for there had been only one black Pirate vessel in the beginning) but had settled for an extinct volcano in the mountains between Zura and Leng for his -headquarters. And there, in that dead cone and in the tunnels formed of ancient lava ruins, he had made his home and garrisoned his crew.

Things had gone well at the start; Zura reaped the rewards of her passive assistance; her zombie legion grew apace. But then things started to change, however marginally at first. Numbers of zombie recruits, initially highm began to drop off; Zura complained and the pirates offered her booty rather than bodies, for which she had little use. Then, periodically, the 'extinct' volcano would throw up smoke rings in the hinterland, which might or might not be responsible for certain strange and unforeseeneclipses of the, moon; also, there were at times dull rumblings underfoot like the evenly-paced pounding of mighty hammers or

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