The traveler in black by John Brunner

Author:John Brunner [Brunner, John]
Format: epub
Tags: sf
Publisher: Ace Books
Published: 1971-11-14T23:00:00+00:00

VII

"Oh, there you are!"

Perched on a grey rock atop a grey hill, Jacques the scrivener forwent his gazing at sunset-gilded Ys in favor of a scowl at the traveler in black who had come to join him. There were no footprints to show by what path he had arrived; still, where Laprivan wiped away the past that was no wonder.

"I've sat here long enough, in all conscience," Jacques complained. "This wind is cold! And, for all you promised I should witness the doom of Ys, I see nothing but what I've always seen when looking on the city from afar.

When will this doom befall, tell me that."

The traveler sighed. Now the course of events was grinding to its inexorable conclusion, he felt downcast, despite there never having been an alternative. He did not much like Jacques, regarding him as pompous and self-opinionated, but even so ...

"The doom is already in train."

Jacques leapt from his rock and stamped his foot. "You mean I've missed it?"

"That, no," said the traveler. He raised his staff and pointed across the twilight grey of the valley. "Do you not see, there by the gates, a certain number of persons making in this direction?"

"Why . . . Yes, I believe I do." Jacques peered hard. "But from this distance I cannot tell who they are."

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