Vampire World III: Bloodwars by Brian Lumley

Author:Brian Lumley [Brian Lumley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror, Fiction, Vampires
ISBN: 9780812536287
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1995-10-02T04:00:00+00:00

t Thikkoul's incorporeal probe dwindling to nothing in his

metaphysical mind. In another moment the deadspeak void had disappeared, too, and the Necroscope's dreaming mind was open again ...

... Open to those several others who had been trying to reach him ever since his return to his home world some hours ago, who had known that their best chance would come when he slept. Various obstructions — for one, the mass of the barrier mountains; for another, the fact that Nathan's mind was either fully occupied or totally empty, a deadspeak void; and for a third, the fact that he slept in the Rock, though close to its outer perimeter - had so far kept them from him. But while they waited they had talked among themselves, as was their wont.

In previous times it had scarcely been necessary for them to communicate in this current fashion: living together and as joint leaders of the same pack (in itself a situation unthinkable among previous packs), and brothers out of the same litter, daily contact had more than sufficed. Recently, however, bitter circumstances had forced them apart, which was the reason they contacted Nathan now. That, and to welcome him home.

He had been listening to their telepathic conversation for several minutes before true cognizance dawned: that it wasn't a dream but a reality. Had he been awake, Nathan would have made the connection at once; his own telepathy had long developed to that degree where he recognized the

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thoughts of others for what they were, no longer as the vague s tati c or mental interference which he had known as a child. His telepathy and his deadspeak (different talents yet plainly analogous) had always been present in him but undeveloped through lack of practice, or lack of sympathetic minds on whom to practise. The dead wouldn't speak to him, and apart from 'his' wolves, h e had known no telepathic contact — or perhaps some, but only with Nestor, which was not an un common phenomenon between Szgany kith and kin.

In his travels, however, the 'nomadic' Thyre had opened up both of these esoteric channels to him, and in Ben Trask's parallel world he had finally used his talent to befriend the teeming dead in a way superior to all his expectations in Sunside. For as far as Nathan was aware — and with the exception of the Thyre, of course - the Great Majority of his own world had not changed in their attitude: desiring no truck with him at all, they continued to shun him. Wherefore these communications he intercepted now, since they were not Thyre sendings and could not be Szgany deadspeak, were telepathic.

But to speak mind-to-mind with such as these! It resolved a ques

tion of old concern whose answer, while it had been m

ade apparent in Trask's world, was one that might only be verified here. And t his co mmunication was that verification.

It was something

that Nathan had always questio

ned, while in his heart knowing that it was true:

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