Necroscope #08 - Vampire World 3: Bloodwars by Brian Lumley

Author:Brian Lumley [Lumley, Brian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-02-05T21:49:54+00:00

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‘Because this is my world, and because everything I love is here.’

Also because everything you hate is here, 1 fancy.

The Wamphyri? Oh, yes! And we may have the means to destroy them at last…’ But here Nathan paused, for even in the seclusion of deadspeak that was something he didn’t want to go into. Anyway, he wasn’t sure of the details himself — except that the less anyone knew of them, dead or alive, the better. Which was why he now changed the subject:

Thikkoul… how did you know I was back?’

What, you? The one man who stands between life and death? Like a bridge between alien nations, a messenger between different spheres of existence, an envoy of the otherwise unknown? When you went from us, a solitary candle blinked out; when you returned, it burst back into flame! I would have tried to contact you earlier, but at first we did not dare believe.

‘We?’

Myself, and all of your friends among the Thyre ancients with whom you have spoken in the past, whose word you passed on to their descendants among the living. But in the Cavern of the Ancients, in Place-Under-the-Yellow-Cliffs, Rogei, Shaeken and others were suddenly excited! Via deadspeak, they spoke to their colleagues in other places. To Tolmia, and to Ethloi the Elder in Open-to-the-Sky, who passed the message on: that in fact you had returned! So it finally reached me, Thikkoul the Stargazer in the Hall of Endless Hours, in River’s Rush. And of course I had to speak to you, and offer my services.

‘Your services?’

Oh, yes! For now that you have a future - why, I can read it for you! But I admit, it’s for myself as much as for you: to see the stars again, through the eyes of the Necroscope!

Nathan thought about it. ‘It could be invaluable,’ he said eventually. And then, rather more cautiously: ‘But on the other hand, since whatever you see can’t be changed …? I mean, since what will be, will be …?

Of course, said Thikkoul, if disappointedly, and Nathan sensed his slow deadspeak nod. Of course. And I really can’t blame you that you do not wish to know. For after all, the future of any man, even the Necroscope, can only be so long. ..

‘But if I should change my mind -?’

- Yes, yes, that’s understood, said Thikkoul. And after a moment: I’ve interrupted your sleep enough. Only remember that I’m here if ever you should need me.

‘I will,’ Nathan answered, and felt 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

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