The Weird of the White Wolf (Elric Saga) by Michael Moorcock

Author:Michael Moorcock
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, General, Epic, Fantasy fiction
ISBN: 9780441888054
Publisher: ACE Charter
Published: 1988-02-01T09:17:29+00:00

'This is no cave,' Elric whispered, 'it's a tunnel

but I cannot guess where it leads.' "

For several hours they pressed onwards in pitch darkness, dinging to one another as they reeled for

ward, uncertain of their footing and still aware that they were moving down a gradual incline. They lost all sense of time and Elric began to feel as if he were living through a dream. Events seemed to have be,.

come so unpredictable and beyond his control that he could no longer cope with thinking about them in ordinary terms. The tunnel was long and dark and wide and cold. It offered no comfort and the floor eventually became the only thing which had any reality. It was firmly beneath his feet. He began to feel that possibly he was not movingthat the floor, after all, was moving and he was remaining station

ary. His companions clung to him but he was not aware of them. He was lost and his brain was numb.

Sometimes he swayed and felt that he was on the edge of a precipice. Sometimes he fell and his groan

ing body met hard stone, disproving the proximity of the gulf down which he halfexpected to fall.

All the While he made his legs perform walking motions, even though he was not at all sure whether he was actually moving forward. And time meant nothingbecame a meaningless concept with relation to nothing.

Until, at last, he was aware of a faint, blue glow ahead of him and he knew that he had been moving forward. He began to run down the incline, but found that he was going too fast and had to check "his speed. There was a scent of alien strangeness in the cool air of the cave tunnel and fear was a fluid force which surged over him, something separate from himself.

The others obviously felt it, too, for though they said nothing, Elric could sense it. Slowly they moved downward, drawn like automatons towards the pale blue glow below them.

And then they were out of the tunnel, staring awestruck at the unearthly vision which confronted them. Above them, the very air seemed of the strange blue colour which had originally attracted them. They were standing on a jutting slab of rock and, although it was still somehow dark, the eerie blue glow illuminated a stretch of glinting silver beach beneath them. And the beach was lapped by a surging dark sea which moved restlessly like a liquid giant in disturbed slumber. Scattered along the sil

ver beach were the dim shapes of wrecksthe bones of peculiarly designed boats, each of a different pat

tern from the rest. The sea surged away into darkness and there was no horizononly blackness.

Behind them, they could see a sheer cliff which was also lost in darkness beyond a certain point. And it was coldbitterly cold, with an unbelievable sharp

ness. For though the sea threshed beneath them, there was no dampness in the airno smell of salt. It was a bleak and awesome sight and,

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