Kenneth Bulmer - Keys to the Dimensions 06 by The Chariots of Ra

Author:The Chariots of Ra
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-02-10T13:16:48+00:00

XI

As the drapes rustled back Tulley saw dark irregular stains upon the purple and knew them for blood.

Then his eyes, all his skin, the nervous endings all over his body, tingled as though with an electric current. He saw—oh, a blaze of gems, colour, forms and sinuous shapes of gold and silver surrounding an oval shape of darkness, a brilliance that dazzled and made him close smarting eyes. But—more than he saw, more than he felt, he experienced a pain, a physical paralysing pain impinging on his mind. He opened his mouth, gasping, yet unaware of mere bodily reactions. The pain penetrated him. Sheets and floods of pain disoriented him so that he stumbled against Fangar. He could not see, could not hear, could not smell. Aware only of the pressure that insupportably tried to press his brains inward and simultaneously to lift his mind asunder from within, he lost track of the world.

And yet—and yet somehow, as though he peered through the fog of delirium, he became aware of a thin and intense spot of white light. It drilled him to the core of his being. He could not judge where it was, its distance, its location. Around this intense and burning centre he could feel—could feel!—a greenish haze, a flickering and uncertain coolness of colour. Then all vanished.

He found himself standing outside the temple, supported by Fangar, and with Akun looked anxiously at him.

Amoundei said: “Truly he was as one possessed. Transcendental manifestations undoubtedly were vouchsafed him. Blessed of AmounRa. Now I regain the faith I believed I had lost.”

The pain had completely gone. Tulley felt fine. Being Roy Tulley, confidant of Graham Pike, he thought that old Amoundei was pitching it a bit steep, way out, man, a real crazy groofer. This was for real. Sniff a little secret of the universe, man, and set in swinging.

“You are recovered, Roy?”

“Sure, Fangar, sure. I don’t know what came over me.”

Fangar looked uneasy. “They say there are dark secrets attaching to the Yonaphren. Even without the Linaphren it possesses awesome powers.”

Tulley began to get an inkling of what the fabled treasure of AmounRa had meant to these people. If the Hyktros had not stopped to plunder that fortune in gems but had merely snatched up the Linaphren and departed then what mighty and inconceivable power must that not contain?

This was no simple uncomplicated business of chiselling out an eyeball from an idol, however little or yellow or however far north of Khatmandu it might be. He’d been really sent back there in the sanctuary. That intense white core of light and its fuzzy cool greenness— had he seen that? Had that been real? Glaring at him from the centre of the jewelled oval of blackness, had he felt, seen, experienced, sensed all that?

He had made up his mind what he was going to do and in conversation with Fangar and Amoundei he learned enough to make him feverishly push ahead with his plans. For what Amoundei told them bore most significantly on their dilemma among the dimensions.

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