#p: Jagged Gorgeous Wings

[notmuchofatail]

Jagged Gorgeous Wings || Glow

Summary: As the first blooms of spring arrive, Zero wants to show Gregory one of the many wonders of a march equinox in Enchantra.  Date: Early March  Warnings: None - fluffy.......’friendship’ @zerohallows

Zero: Zero kept a curious eye to the weather; spring was exceedingly busy for him. Winter was melting away, all the dormant decay that had been working under the chilly blanket of snow and sludge had finally begun to thaw, so it was time for new things to grow from it. Spring was exhausting; a reminder that no matter how much time he spent in town his role in the Hollow would be no less demanding. Zero was tired, but he was also waiting for something very specific.

He'd been ghosting around Enchantra for days, feeling the tug of change and the way the spread of old things sinking back into nature was almost a full ache under his own skin. Spring was difficult, but it wasn't without its positives. He had been studying a cluster of trees when he felt that little itch of awareness he had been waiting for and while he had been planning to keep this to himself his thoughts shifted in that moment and he reached for his phone instead.

I want to show you something. Come to the forest. He typed the vague message. Edgar will find you. And hit send, looking at the screen a moment longer to check for a reply before reaching down to give the small dog's ears a scratch. "Okay buddy, go find him."

Edgar tilted his head, not fully understanding the words but the idea seemed clear enough and when the dog darted off through the brush Zero wasn't worried; Enchantra had a way of making sure people ended up where they were supposed to, if they were welcome there.

Gregory: For Gregory, Spring time was both his favorite and least favorite season. While he loved the season of blossoms and blooms, the season of new life and creatures, baby animals and growth — there was also just... Something about it that tensed his muscles all the same.

At the very least, it was a good time for him to be able to open the windows without freezing himself while he did his usual tasks; work or mope. It was on this particular day, in the middle of a furious mope session that his phone vibrating interrupted him.

With that of a request from Zero. Honestly, it wasn't really that much a request Gregory had to think about, already tugging on a jean jacket over his sweatshirt as he gave a quick affirmation to his.... friend in response and headed out the door. After all, he rarely needed an excuse for Enchantra.

Thankfully finding Edgar wasn't too hard a task either - the tall man greeting the little terrier with a gentle scratch behind the ears before he went running off into the woods ahead of him again. No matter. Gregory wasn't too far behind.

And truly Enchantra would always guide him where he needed to go. This case was no different, as he came up on the familiar figure after only a few minutes of trudging through the wilderness.

"....using messenger dogs now, are we...?" Gregory teased as he approached, gesturing lightly towards his ever helpful guide.

Zero:  Edgar bounced along, he wasn't a pup by any means but there was a lot of energy in that small form as he ran along the path and hopped over fallen branches and damp spots where the melted remnants of winter puddled, splashing through the larger ones he couldn't jump across. And as soon as he'd made it back he ran up to paw at Zero's leg, nose shoved under his chin with a little wiggle when he was scooped up.

"Well, the birds don't listen to me." He pointed out with a chuckle, arms full of squirming dog a few moments before he set Edgar back down again.

"That didn't take much convincing," he mused, sometimes it did with Greg, but that was only if you didn't know the sort of things that were bound to catch the other man's curiosity. "What were you going to do if you came all the way out here for nothing?" He teased, but that was hardly the case, and Greg knew it.

He took a step towards the cluster of trees,  he rarely wore his gloves in the forest, so his fingers rested bare on the bark. "Want to see my favorite part of the spring?"

Gregory: "They listen to me." Gregory teased back, but he knew it wasn't necessarily true. They 'listened' in the fact that they seemed respectful of his property and other animals. That didn't mean he thought he could send a message through them of course. He shrugged though, easily. "..Dunno why you thought it would. Even if I came for nothing, I'm still coming to see Enchantra." The part where he was still going to see Zero too went unsaid.

He was curious though - what Zero had brought him all the way out here to see. "...your favourite part..?" He responded as he trailed behind Zero carefully. "...'course I would."

Zero: He was tempted to point out that it was less listening and more that they liked Greg, but that seemed too obvious. It wasn't magic, it was just Greg and his strange connection to the natural world; or maybe it was magic and just a different kind than what a person was born with. One cultivated over time with patience and a need to do no harm, unfortunately probably because too much harm had been done to the person exercising kindness.

"Enchantra, huh?" He countered, his shoulder was turned to Greg but the lifted eyebrow range clearly in his amused tone. "Well, I can't compete with an entire magic forest I guess."

He was studying the surface of the tree, the sudden twitch of motion that was masked by the same earthy tones, a tiny little flick of wings. "Most moths only live through summer, but some types go dormant in the cold, make little nests and sleep through winter. It's still early, not spring yet, but the forest is thawing out, and they're waking up."

There were spots like that around the forest, where the moths clustered their burrows and waited out the winter. And then they woke up, damp wings fluttering and little fluffy bodies shaking to get rid of the moisture. Most people assumed moths weren't out in the day, most people were wrong.

Little fuzzy bugs shuffled around the trees in hollow spots, a few were testing their wings. Zero watched, then caught one as it lost grip and tumbled. "Hey, careful, you gotta dry out first." He reminded the creature as it crawled up his fingertips and perched there, fluffing itself up.

"See?" He turned to Greg, the insect was nearly as big as his thumb and a dapple brown color with silky wings, the breeze making its fuzzy body sway a bit while it held on.

Gregory: Gregory listened carefully, swapping his gaze between whatever Zero was looking at and his own shoes as he stepped closer - careful to avoid trudging on any blooming flowers, plants or little animals as he stopped beside Zero.

It made a bit more sense as the other began explaining - referring to the moths as Gregory felt himself give a fond little exasperated huff. Of course it was about the moths. Though believe me, this was not to say it was a complaint. Instead it was so incredibly endearing, and Greg was more than interested to hear what Zero had to say about his little winged friends. Especially as Gregory spotted them started to move around the bark in which Zero had been inspecting - noticing the little shuffles of emerging moths with a curious eye.

That was - until one slipped from the tree. Greg felt his entire body twitch like he was going to reach out and grasp it but Zero beat him to it, gently catching the little guy and hoisting him up for Greg to see as it settled upon Zero's hand. The first thing Gregory noticed, of course, was that it was adorable.

He adored fluffy moths. They were as cute as any kitten or puppy to him, and obviously this was no exception. Immediately he melted, leaning in softly as a soft coo slipped from his lips. "...oh my god." He breathed, a rare genuine smile catching at the corner of his lips. "It's beautiful. It's so cute! I don't think I've ever seen a moth that fluffy?"

Zero: "Enchantra has some species that are unique; these guys are pretty big." He pointed out, watching the moth flutter and dry its' wings in the crisp air. "Wood moths are usually smaller, same colors though, not usually as much fluff." And said fluff was rustling as the moth finally fluttered off his fingertips, circling around. By then a few others had dried their wings enough to start moving around, most moving around from tree to tree. "They won't go too far until it's actually warmer, just stay here, eat and get ready for spring when they'll start traveling around."

Since they were standing so close to the trees a few moths fluttered close, one landing on his head and sitting there, delicate, fuzzy antenna waving.

"Well, there is that," he pointed out, letting another of the moths land on his fingers. "Moths have no concept of personal space." Clearly, they were fine with landing anywhere, including on Greg.

He bit back an amused sound when one decided to attach itself to the arm of Greg's jacket and crawl around, inspecting him. "I think she likes you, or your jacket tastes good, maybe both."

Moths really were basically just winged fuzzy puppies anyway, and chattery little things, even if Greg couldn't hear that part, they definitely were.

"Hold your fingers out," he motioned towards the one clinging to Greg's jacket and when the other man did the insect waved two small legs his direction, testing the idea before grabbing hold of his fingers and climbing over onto them. "Just remember, fragile wings," Zero added, busy reaching up to scoop up the fuzzball in his hair.

Gregory: Of course Gregory had some idea of the life cycle of moths - or... well, bugs and insects more generally. He'd learned about them in school - looked them up and studied them himself, but he didn't know the specifics. Didn't know exactly how these moths worked or operated. Certainly didn't know that these big fluffy ones existed and started coming out in the early spring.

"...hmm. That almost sounds familiar." Gregory teased softly, letting his gaze leave the small fuzzy moth inspecting him for just a moment so that he could glance up at Zero with a warm, but clearly playful smirk. It wasn't as if he was upset by Zero being in his personal space most nights, after all. Especially since he invited him there. It was just too easy of a comment to make, was all. He listened easily to the man's instructions though, gently offering his hand as a bridge to the clambering little moth, and only moving his hand a little closer after it was securely perched on his fingers. His gaze inspected the adorable little creature as his smiled only seemed to grow.

There was no need for the reminder, if only because Gregory treated every single living creature with the utmost gentle careful behavior; light and respectful touches or just a harm free gaze. It was cute to see the fuzzy little thing so close though, tilting his hand slowly as the moth traversed over his skin and investigated her surroundings. She was truly a beautiful thing - unique markings and tiny fuzzy legs that tickled ever so slightly with every step she took. "...are they always this friendly?" Gregory asked softly, reaching out his opposite hand to let her bridge across and explore more, drying out her fluffy wings easier. "...I mean - not that I've ever met a mean moth. They're just so cute though."

Zero: "The adorable part? Yes, it does; I am." He countered with a smirk, "And who made their personal space free range anyway?" Not that Zero wasn't aware of how seldom that happened with Greg and people; it didn't exactly take much time around him to see that while Greg could be kind, and tried to be to people, he wasn't often very fond of them, or the things they did. Which was fair, Zero supposed; he tended to see things as people were just people, flaws and all. But Greg had a lot of scars, some that existed under the surface and Zero hadn't asked, but he knew it wasn't easy to forgive people when a person carried those things.

Nor did he concern himself with other people in that regard; Greg trusted him and he knew that was really all that mattered. Well, that and the fact that he did enjoy spending time with the other man.

"No; they're usually more cautious because people are huge, clumsy, dangerous things who think they're pests." Zero frowned, gathering the moth from his hair up into his palms and letting it settle there. "But they know I wouldn't let anyone around them that isn't safe; they can understand me and I can understand them." Even the smallest creatures knew caution and in turn knew trust; the latter had to be earned most of the time because people were fickle and to many of them a moth was just a moth and an insect was some terrible creature. But to the moths fluttering around, readying themselves for the change in season, the forest was safe and they were curious.

"Moths don't know how to be mean, they just know how to be moths; harmless, curious, and friendly if you're careful with them." Zero nodded, watching the one in his palms flex its wings to return to the air. His attention then turned to the few stragglers freeing themselves from their burrows, scooping up a small, nearly black toned younger moth from the tangle it had made of itself trying to get free.

Gregory: He managed to resist rolling his eyes - but for the record it was very close. It would have been fondly, regardless, but he supposed he deserved that answer for giving Zero an opening just as easy to follow up with. Again, it really wasn't like he was complaining. Nor... refuting the claim by any means. Zero was adorable. "..Don't think I ever made it free range." He did refute though, half heartedly as he shifting to peer a little closer at his new little friend, watching their path carefully.

"I suppose they're right about that..." Because most people were. Most people didn't care about or for moths. If they stepped on them, swatted them, hit them, ran them over. They were just bugs. But... bugs were precious too. Gregory treated them just like he would any cat or dog. Any rat or goat. They were living beings. There was a reason he'd come under harm for the sake of protecting animals.

Letting the original one settle against his palm, Gregory easily opened his opposite hand towards another moth attempting to dry themselves - a beautiful little fluffy white one, his thumb brushing over its side ever so softly as a small smile curled at his lips. Cute. Cute cute cute. "...I think they do a very good job at just knowing how to be moths. Dunno if I ever realized how bloody many there were." He mused, glancing over at Zero and spotting the most recent moth he'd just picked up with an amused huff.

Oh how opposites always attract.

Zero: "Uh-huh," he replied, more than a little amused over Greg's huffing, because that was entirely expected. Not that Greg was predictable, often, but sometimes he really was, if you paid attention. There were certain Greg-specific reactions that really came as no surprise anymore. But unsurprising didn't mean boring.

"Not everyone, but enough to make them careful." Zero sighed, because that was not a fact that was bound to change. "I have a feeling people wouldn't be so fond of butterflies either if they knew they're carrion feeders and not just pretty little bugs that sit on flowers. They've got better PR than moths." But a close connection because of that, yes, Zero was familiar with them as well.

"You know they're like most insects; they are usually around and people just don't notice. I can relate." He laughed softly, waiting for the moth in his hands to right itself before he held his palm out towards one of the tree trunks and let it flutter over to it. When he looked back to Greg he shook his head, amused. "Looks like you made another friend."

Gregory: "Alternatively -... people might be more fond of them if they knew that." Gregory commented with a soft smile, because.. well, people were weird like that. He knew that. Sometimes people became more fascinated with something the weirder it was. Most of the time though, he knew it was the opposite. People were afraid of things they didn't understand.

Even if there was nothing to be afraid of.

Man if he couldn't feel that comment though. He understood that feeling too moth-friends, believe him. "...I'd make lots of friends if they let me." Gregory laughed, though he gently turned his hands and let the two moths come together, fluffing up beside each other and flickering their little legs towards each other before he felt their wings move - and the pair of them fluttered off to the nearest tree.

"...much easier to befriend than people, you know?"

Zero:

"Maybe here." Zero trailed off with faint amusement, but his own experiences hadn't been nearly as warm. He had stopped letting that, among other things, bother him a long time ago, but he still knew the differences existed. In town though it did seem like people were just a little more receptive, but that wasn't always the rule. Some of the commentary online had proven that, reminding Zero the sort of person who weren't worth his attention.

"I'll keep that in mind; they can come bother you at work instead of fluttering around when I'm trying to do something around here." He countered, but honestly he figured Greg would have liked that.

"Hmm, depends on the people." Zero decided, after a moment; they were passively capable of getting along with most people, and had more friends now than before, but it did depend a lot on the type of person. Some were better left out of a person's life.

Greg though, well, for him that list was longer than most, they knew that. "Some people are, objectively, fine. Some are actually even interesting; but they'd probably argue it." He added, glancing from the moths back to the other man; some people were even surprising.

Gregory: "...I never mind." Gregory said confidently - because he was already used to the flock of other small winged bugs that would come and hang out around Ruff to Fluff for... some reason. Not mentioning any names, of course. It was nice though - to have frequent guests in moths or butterflies. Gregory would never turn that away.

He couldn't help but huff at Zero's words though - trying to pretend like he couldn't hear the underlying tone at all as he helped another moth gently onto his hand before he let his gaze shift back over towards Zero with a small raise of his brow.

Taking careful steps, Gregory made sure that his new little friend wouldn't be blown from his hand as he approached Zero - only lifting his hand once he was beside him and letting the moth crawl off the tip of his finger and onto the other man's nose as Gregory tried his best to hide his smirk. "...interesting, huh? You'll have to introduce me to these... interesting people." The taller man teased, smiling softly as he pressed a kiss to Zero's cheek and stepped away again to observe another moth that was fluttering around on the tree beside them.

Zero: "I wouldn't say that, these guys love having an invitation." Zero chuckled, it wasn't so much they understood the words said, but animals and even insects were excellent at picking up on the feel of a person, and when they found one that wasn't hostile towards them they tended to linger. Being around people was a good way to avoid other dangers, if the people themselves weren't a threat.

"I know some great people, then I've also known some terrible ones." Which, fair was fair, he supposed; there were no doubt people who didn't like him for reasons that made sense, but the ones who had reasons that were just narrow-minded he didn't really let affect his life if it could be avoided. It couldn't always though.

He was going to say something else but was left blinking at the insect and fighting the urge to sneeze because of the fuzzy little legs. "Hey," he started to protest, if only jokingly, but Greg had to go and make it basically impossible to complain. Zero liked that smirk, it was a step up from Greg's usual tired expression, the most he could manage was an indulgent roll of his eyes and a smile, a faint twinge of red across the bridge of his nose.

"Changed my mind, you're actually the worst." He was still trying not to sneeze, mind you, slight nose twitch and all, and managed to hold out until the moth fluttered up to his hair before he couldn't fight it, covering most of his face with his hands. "Terrible," he added, between sneezes until the sensation had passed.

"Using distraction against me? That's awful." Zero rubbed his nose with his palm and shot Greg an amused look. "Impressively sneaky, but awful." And he couldn't really complain anyway.

Gregory: "Still wouldn't mind." And truly rest assured - he would not. There would almost never be an issue when it came to Greg and animals. They were talking to the guy who'd tripped over grasshoppers, let raccoons raid his pantry, let his rats dictate his schedule. The world was the animal's - and he was just living in it.

"Bless you." Gregory said around a laugh, peeking over at Zero from where he'd been thoroughly 'investigating' a few moths with a very knowing smirk. It wasn't exactly the reaction he'd expected out of Zero, but it was a cute one nevertheless.

Still a win in his book.

And being added to the list of terrible people? Eh. Another win if you asked him, really. "...I don't think I was doing anything. The moth told me it wanted to be there." Obviously it did not. He was not the moth whisperer. "...or...maybe I misunderstood. I'm not fluent in moth, sorry. "

Zero: "Uh-huh, I definitely believe that." He replied, still a little cautious that the sneezing fit hadn't passed; when it didn't flare back up he fixed a properly annoyed look on Greg, even if he actually wasn't. Principle of the thing and all.

"See if I invite you next time something is going on in Enchantra." He continued, knowing the treat fell flat and even the moths didn't believe him since the one on his head just twitched its wings in amusement. "Great, you too?" He couldn't win, apparently.

"What were you doing anyway? You got out here really fast," he shifted the subject, waving a few of the insects off to low branches so he could sit down on an old, overturned chunk of tree half sank into the ground from years of lying there, running his fingers across the soft moss beginning to grow again. Edgar shuffled over to flop at his feet, stubby tail twitching in a wag once he was settled into the spot.

Gregory: Gregory admittedly glanced over at the threat, even if he knew it was empty (mostly because... well, he could just come to the forest and see something himself if he really wanted to). But at the sight of the little flicker of the moth's wings and Zero's immediately comment, Gregory covered his mouth with his hand to prevent the snort of a laugh from escaping.

Somehow he managed to stifle it as he focused back on cute fluffy wings in front of him, letting a handful more crawl up onto his fingers as he smiled at them softly.

"...nothin' important, obviously." Greg admitted, making sure the area was clear before he settled himself on the forest floor, tucking one leg up against himself as he let the moths settle against his jeans, fingers running ever so gently along their wings. "...I was just cleaning. Kinda would have taken any excuse to get out of it so... probably why."

Zero:

"Oh yeah? Convenience, huh?" Zero replied, listening to the shift in the air of tiny wings, sharp ears catching the feathery-soft sound around them. He liked those spots in the forest, at times he couldn't find them the same way as he used to be able to do before in the ancient forest where the very air was often undisturbed as something as intrusive as human voices and the trees were both wise and frightening in that wisdom. Enchantra was old, but in some ways still felt younger to him; it was green in a fresher way, it bloomed more brightly and it did not whisper nearly as much.

But it also allowed more, the Great Prince was a protector, the things that lurked in the darkness were not as wary or as scarred. Sometimes Zero wasn't sure he really belonged there, belonging anywhere was more than simply being welcomed.

"Well, I guess I can accept that." He turned his attention to Greg and the curious crowd of delicate creatures surrounding him. It was different, sometimes, when he actually saw Greg comfortable enough to laugh or smile in a way that was a little less hindered.

"I should start thinking up excuses more often."

Gregory: "...who says there needs to be an excuse." Gregory said after a moment, stilling his hand as a few moths used it as a platform to catch those few rays of sun peaking through the tree's canopy. He watched as they shook their little wings off and stretched their legs.

So small... and yet so cute.

"...I make exceptions for some people.. if.. certain people just say.. 'come here' there doesn't always have to be a reason. I'll still come."

It went unsaid, but.. obviously Zero was one of those 'certain people'. There didn't need to be a 'something' for Zero to show him for him to have come here. If Zero had simply said 'come to Enchantra' with no further explanation - Greg would still be here.

Zero: Exceptions were complicated little things, sometimes. Or they could be. People built assumptions on them, direction. Zero didn't care much for making things needlessly complicated. He liked being an exception, he liked that there were layers to Greg's personality that made things very often a guessing game. Sometimes he forgot thought, exceptions, because nothing was ever what anyone might have deemed very clear when it came to Greg.

Which, sure, was fine.

"What about not here?" He replied, watching with curiosity as Greg spoke; here was quiet and solitary and Zero knew there was a difference sometimes between all of that and elsewhere. They didn't like to be obscure when they could be direct though, "Enchantra is nice, but am I still an exception if I want to hang out somewhere in town?"

From there spot perched on the log, Zero could feel the forest around them sigh and shuffle with life, could sense the decay under their feet, in the plants, the quiet things, the creeping, crawling insects living within it. That background noise never left them, but for the moment it was dulled, a hum outside the conversation.

Gregory: Somewhere in town?

Gregory felt himself glance up at Zero at that with a small raise of his brow. Well... - that was slightly different, wasn't it? Mostly in the fact that it... completely depended.

"Uh-... well.. I suppose that...depends." He started, glancing back down at his hands as he bridged them together and let a moth clamber over him, softly blowing onto their wings to help them dry off a bit before he shrugged again. "...I mean - I'm not terribly fond of Pixie's or.. bars in general. But... I dunno. I'd still say it's like...a 99% chance I'll say yes as long as it's you." Since..it was Zero he liked spending time with.

"...Not promising 100% but... mostly."

Zero: Zero had a pretty good idea that was the case, yes, that Greg really only went to Pixie's to drink and escape the sense of self that confined inside the space built from all the weight he carried silently. Zero went there to be a part of things without being a part so directly. It had been the intersection where he had met Greg, a vaguely different situation and half a lifetime ago. It didn't surprise him to hear Greg didn't care much for the place.

"Mostly." He repeated, head canted slightly as he watched Greg focused on the tiny insects. Mostly was how life worked sometimes.

"Okay," he replied, the upended log offering a mild creak and shedding a few bits of mossy bark as he shifted some. "That doesn't tell me where you like in town, even mostly." Zero pointed out, fingers spread to catch the ivory moth when it landed on them again, feather light and soft edges. He couldn't play guessing games forever, after all.

Gregory: Gregory felt his brow raise slightly, his gaze once again shifting to meet Zero's as he adjusted his position and thumbed over a few loose leaves.

"...uh.." Where he liked in town? Did...he expect an expansive list or... "...Moon Market. Ruff to Fluff." Gregory said with a wrinkle of his nose, knowing that was not what Zero meant. "...I mean I-... go to Hatters. Or.. Chippa's. I stay away from the uh...the bars and nightclubs usually... I won't go to the Deer. Everything else is.. a maybe. Depending.."

Zero:

Honestly Zero was willing to entertain whatever idea because, really, leaving the confines of Ruff to Fluff was an accomplishment by Greg standards most days. So he just nodded, listening and filing away that information for later. "Okay."

Frankly Zero didn't go to that place either, the sheer amount of corpses nailed to the walls and deemed trophies by the people who frequented the Deer was practically hostile territory to even a faerie with his talent. The place reeked of misplaced death and was crawling with restless Geist. "That one is a graveyard," he mused, watching the moth reach across his fingertips.

Still, not the turn he wanted the conversation to take, so he left it at that. And speaking of later, there was that. "It's going to get colder when it gets darker," he reminded Greg, knowing that the other man would sit out in the woods all night. It was like the other reminders at times, when Greg overlooked small but generally important details that involved his own well-being.

"I don't think the moths want you to freeze," he chuckled, shifting to stand and cross the space between them, letting the pale insect flutter off to cling to Greg's shirt. "Obviously I don't either, but you'll probably listen to the moths more."

Gregory: Yes - yes it was. Which was exactly why Gregory avoided it. Though he also didn't like Gaston very much either, but the entire atmosphere of the Hunted Deer was just... awful. Why did he want to sit in a place surrounded by corpses of animals that had been killed for nothing other than bragging rights?

It was downright terrible.

Gregory glanced up as Zero shifted from his spot and approached him, letting a moth friend flutter down to him. HIs hand gently cupped around the creature, letting it shift off of his shirt and onto his fingers as he raised a brow gently. "...I spend a lot of the winter out here in a sweatshirt you know." Greg pointed out with a huff. Definitely not a comforting fact, he was sure, but a true one. "...but if you're worried.. maybe I just need a blanket." He suggested with a pointed smile, offering his hand out towards Zero - moth balancing against the back of his palm and all.

Zero: "All that proves is you have very little self-preservation instincts." Zero trailed off, it was fine as a joke, he also knew it was mostly true though, given Greg's moods. Which were really the most complicated part to maneuver around much of the time, it just took a degree of patience that many people were short of. And a faint degree of acceptance that people were, generally, a bit self-destructive.

"Really?" He countered, the amusement didn't reach his expression but it was there in his gaze as he rolled his eyes; he wasn't going to admit to finding Greg's stubborness entertaining, even attractive in some offskew way. "Should just let you freeze," he pointed out, grabbed Greg's hand.

Gregory: "...You already know that though." Gregory pointed out with a small shrug, eyeing Zero carefully as he gave the other man's hand a soft squeeze as soon as he slipped it into his own. "...that would be very mean though.. - You said the moths might not like that..." He teased softly, giving Zero's hand a gentle tug towards him.

He was careful to avoid jostling the little moth though. Waiting until the little friend spread his wings and fluttered off to another perch before Gregory pressed a kiss to Zero's knuckles, looking up at the other with a smile that was both guilty and sly at the same time.

Zero: "Then I'd never hear the end of it, chatty little guys." Zero shook his head, stifling a chuckle, and he did give Greg's hand a tug, but half-hearted at most. "Well, no way I'm dragging your heavy self up." He grumbled, but it definitely lacked any real annoyance. "Ridiculously tall people." Which, by Zero standards equated to a lot of people, but Greg especially.

See, there in was the problem; stubborn and looks like that. Zero was far more inclined to believe the sly than guilty. "Oh, that look, really? Highly suspicious." He mused, a smile catching at the side of his own lips before he let Greg pull him closer, it wasn't much of a protest, or one at all, since he settled there with him, quite purposely stealing as much of Greg's space as possible as he got comfortable sitting with him.

"Hey, elbow," he warned, because he did not want that smacking him in that back of his head as he lazed, shoulder flush to Greg's chest and, yes, of course the second he stopped moving one of the moths had already fluttered over to perch on his hair.

Gregory: "Hey." Gregory pouted, looking up at Zero. It wasn't his fault he'd shot up like a bean stalk in the past few years! He'd thought he'd been done growing when he'd reached 5'11. Evidently not....

The pout didn't last long though - not when the other man allowed his request and pulled closer. He easily brought his arm up and around Zero's back at the warning, letting his fingers rest easily on the man's thigh as he settled back against the tree with a soft sigh. How easy it was to settle there with Zero's weight against his chest, the fluttering of moths back and forth, darting on and off their persons.

Incredibly peaceful, really.

He stirred again after a moment, resting his chin softly on Zero's shoulder as he peeked sideways at him with a soft smile. "...thank you."

Zero: He didn't actually mind Greg being tall, or more to the point himself being short, it was entertaining to complain about but, ultimately, he had no idea how tall people functioned. After seeing on more than one occasion the other man smack his head on anything, doorframes included at times, Zero felt a little sympathy for those who had to stumble around height. But he did like to tease Greg about it, reminding him to duck now and then.

It was very often the case when Zero got comfortable he got lazy, and when he got lazy he tended to follow the natural course and just sleep. But he didn't usually sleep after dark, usually; Greg was a challenge to his nocturnal instincts at times because comfortable often turned into silence and the combination was too relaxing. He shifted, movements a bit fluttery himself, another hazard of being very relaxed, those little twitchy habits, even without his wings to situate. It was at least more subtle as a human.

He had just begun to let his thoughts wander, listening because for him the forest was never quiet, between the murmur of the insects and the changes creeping through the soil and life around them, when Greg moved.

"Hmn," he offered in reply, tipping his head back and returning that smile, tucking his shoulder in against Greg's chest and pressing a quick, slightly off-centered kiss to the other man's jaw before resting his head back against his shoulder.

Peaceful, yes; something he was pretty sure Greg could stand to let himself indulge, at least every now and then.

The moths agreed.

Gregory: Gregory couldn't help but laugh at that response (or lack thereof), an amused roll of his eyes following even if a light shade of pink dusted his cheeks at the kiss.

It didn't really matter how many times Zero had kissed him before. How many times they'd held hands. Cuddled up. Strayed closer... - that churn in his stomach still always felt like a first kiss. That flutter of nerves ever present, like the beating wings of their moth friends, still clambering around on their bodies.

Shifting against the tree to get a bit more comfortable, Gregory pulled Zero a little closer, fingers idly tracing against the fabric of his pants as he let his head rest softly against Zero's. His eyes closed then - listening intently to the forest's chorus of song. The chattering of chickadees. The soft symphony of the crickets, beginning to stir for the day. The soft flutter and patter of the moths. Somewhere in the distance was the deep echo of a woodpecker looking for lunch. Edgar shuffling around looking for a place to squeeze in.

He knew he shouldn't fall asleep. Zero had been right. It would get colder when the sun set. But for now... he was comfortable. Content. And Zero wasn't exactly giving him any motivation to move any time soon either. So what was the harm in just soaking in the environment?

[heywejustheretohavefum]

Attachment - Chapter Two

- yes I know that my writings shit but that has never stopped me before so why would it now -

word count : 1.8k

warnings : swearing, canon-like violence

You had been meditating since before sunrise, finding peace in the faint buzz of the city. After spending most of your life on a nowhere planet, you found the unfamiliarity of your surroundings strangely comforting. The sun finally begins to peek through the skyscrapers and bastes your delicate (s/t) skin in it’s warm rays. Pleasantly, the Force hums around you as you let your mind drift into its throngs. Lost to the world, you bask in the Force for Maker knows how long until you’re brought out of your meditative state by a metal hand on your shoulder. Assuming it was a Sepratist droid, you twist around, grabbing the attacker’s arm and swiftly bringing it behind their back with a harsh tug. Only when a very human grunt of pain comes out of your assailant do you realize that it was just your master.

“I’m so sorry!” You exclaim, releasing Master Skywalker’s arm out of your strong grasp. “I-I thought-I mean I didn’t know it was y-”

You were cut off by a hearty laugh from Anakin, his gorgeous blue eyes sparkling in amusement. “You’re good, (n/n). Just be sure to fight like that against Grievous today and we’ll be sure to win!”

“Thanks, master…” you pause, realizing what your teacher just said. “Wait, what?! General Grievous! Today?”

Anakin laughs at your shock before settling down and beginning to explain. “Our most recent intelligence suggests General Grievous and his fleet is within three parcecs of Coruscant. The Counsel and the Senate are worried about what they could be doing so deep in Republic territory, and as the closest General, it’s my job to chase him away. With any luck, we will hopefully be able to capture the bastard before he can escape our grasp again.”

“So why do you need me, master?” You ask him as you walk into the hanger to board a ship headed towards the oversized clanker’s fleet. From a nearby supply room, you grab a small blaster to tuck into the hidden pocket in your pants leg.

“Well, while our fleet will be distracting Grievous, we will secretly fly in and dock in his ship in order to capture him. The Counsel thinks you’re ready for such a daring mission.”

You notice how he says the Counsel thinks you’re ready and you wonder if he disagrees with them. Judging by his annoyed and upset tone, you’d guess he does. Obi-Wan walks by, diverting your attention from the angsty Jedi Knight. “Master Kenobi! I take it you’re coming too?” You ask. Clone troopers march behind him in their white battle armor, loading the ships with blasters and explosives.

“Yes, I’ll be in charge of the diversion, desperately trying to keep Anakin out of trouble - as always,” he responds. You laugh at his joke, which makes your master scowl as he finishes helping load some cargo onto a ship. Anakin catches himself doing so, and quickly stops, wondering why he’s being so hostile toward your happiness. Your happiness is caused by Obi-Wan, yes, but still is your happiness.

“Let’s go (y/n), my ship should be fueled up,” Anakin rushes to pull you away from his former master, grabbing you by the arm as you wave a quick goodbye to the bearded Jedi. He continues to pull you until you reach his yellow starfighter on the other side of the hanger - and you choose not to comment on how he abruptly and rudely ended your conversation with Master Kenobi.

“Wait a second master, this ship only seats one,” you tell him.

“Then I guess you’ll have to sit on my lap, won’t you?”

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Flying through hyperspace, Anakin can step back and truly appreciate his situation. You, sitting on his lap, begrudgingly cuddled into his chest in order to give him room to reach around you and fly the ship. Despite the dangerous mission you are both hurtling towards at literal light speed, Anakin feels completely relaxed by your warmth and scent. Oh yes, your scent. Though he knows you must use the standard issue soap every Jedi uses, you smell different than that. Like warmth - like the sunlight he found you meditating in this morning.

Neither of you had talked for a while. You’re still mentally trying to prepare for what is sure to be an exhilarating first mission, and your master is basking in the wonder of the moment. He still has yet to understand why being around you gives him such a rush (different than how he had felt with Padmé, greater than it had ever been), but for now he won’t contemplate it. For now, Anakin will just enjoy the feeling of your breath against his skin, of your heartbeat in time with his own and his face pressed into your sweet smelling hair. And you won’t know of the rush you give him.

So enraptured by your presence, Anakin doesn’t feel the ship jump out of hyperspace jerkily. You do, however, and you also notice the large wing of the Sepratist ship growing ever closer as he does nothing to slow the ship down. “Look out!” You shout, snapping your master out of his daydream just in time for him to pull back on the controls and stop the small starship from smashing into bits. “Kriff, Anakin, what the hell was that!?” Your elbow comes around to jab him for almost killing the both of you.

After a quick, half-assed apology, Anakin docks the ship, connecting it to the ‘Good’ General’s ship in order to gain access. He frowns as he feels your comforting weight leave his lap; you slip out of the cockpit and into the halls of the ship, giving a hand to your master as he does the same. Together, you make your way through the ship towards the bridge, carefully avoiding droid patrols as you go.

Now at the bridge, you find the doors to it sealed. You share a look with your master, and you both pierce through it with your lightsabers, each cutting a half circle until your lightsabers again meet at the bottom. Master Skywalker moves the cut circle out of the door with the Force, and you slip through the hole, blocking the barrage of blaster fire with your verdant saber.

Your master runs in after you, and goes straight to Grievous who spun two lightsabers. Deciding you focus on the droids to keep them occupied and away from your master, you start cutting swaths of the smaller ones down. The Force warns you of something coming from behind, and you swing around just in time to block a black pole sparking purple energy from both ends. Jumping onto a control panel behind you, you launch yourself over the black droid’s head, swinging around mid-air to slice the droid in two.

With three more of the strange black droids in the room, all of which were far too close to Anakin for comfort, you slide under Grievous’ legs to get to another one which was about to strike your master before you cut it clean in half. Back on your feet, you twirl to narrowly avoid their sparking sticks and you use the opportunity to kick one of them back into the control paneling before chopping the other one in two.

With them dealt with, you swing at the general, who’s second pair of arms come out in time to meet your saber with two of his own; the force of the swing knocking it out of your hand. Anakin, distracted by your situation momentarily, loses his own lightsaber as General Grievous prepares to kill both of you.

“And now, I will rid the galaxy of two more pathetic Jedi,” he laughs, before he sputters off into a coughing fit.

“Wait!” You say, trying to think on your feet. “Before you kill my master...could I get my revenge on him?”

“What?” Grievous turns to you, his monstrous eyes staring questioningly at your own.

“You heard me,” you double down, “the Jedi have been nothing but cruel to me my entire life, and Skywalker’s been the worst of all.” You spat, glaring at Anakin. “I-I’m not asking you to let me kill him, no. You deserve that honor. J-just let me kick him around a bit. Let me hurt him like he hurt me.”

Grievous narrows his eyes at you in suspicion. You pray that this would work, and wouldn’t just make Master Skywalker think you hate him on his last moment in this galaxy. The droid-man moves the lightsaber away from your head, giving you the go ahead to go over to your master. As gently as you could get away with, you kick his chest, sending him to the floor. Again, you kick him, this time squarely in his side. Slowly blocking the view of the metal man in a way that would be interpreted as accidental, you kick your master again, waiting and hoping he’d understand.

And he did. At first Anakin was destroyed by your confession to hating him. He looked up at you, eyes watering, but your eyes - the gorgeous (e/c) hued eyes that he had come to adore staring into - were trained on General Grievous ganguly figure. But then, when you looked at him, he found there was no resentment in your eyes. Just desperation. And with your first kick, he understood. The unfamiliar feeling of metal against his ribs made him remember how you tucked a small blaster into your pants.

Grabbing it, he shoots at Grievous from the floor, forcing him to block the shot which gives you an opening to summon your emerald saber and ferociously slash at him; his bottom left arm falls to the ground with a useless thud. As cowardly as ever, Grievous turns to scuttle away on all five of his remaining limbs, and you give chase, leaving Anakin to pull both his lightsaber and the one from Grievous’ discarded arm.

By the time he catches up to you, you’re locked, saber to saber with Grievous. His hidden pair of arms unfurl and Anakin knows you won’t see them coming until too late. He charges towards Grievous, and manages to block one of his sabers from slashing down into you, but not the other.

Anakin’s heart stops as you fall back, your tunic ripped open and your chest spilling blood. He doesn’t notice Grievous slip away, or the way the ship shakes dangerously. He can only see you, the way your chest heaves as your shirt grows damp with blood, the way you cringe in pain as you frantically try to control your breathing. “Ani,” your voice is rough and jagged with pain. “I’m fine, I’m fine, it’s sh-shallow enough. Just go after Grievous, I’ll be fine.”

Your master refuses, seeming to think your injury is much more serious than it is, and he frantically lifts you up and begins running back to his ship, abandoning the mission for Grievous.

[destinys-dragon]

Fairly Small Love (1)

Characters: Virgil, Patton, ???

Prompt: Anonymous

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“Come on, pretty Ann, come with me,” Patton cooed, his bright blue eyes glowing with an unnatural light. “Please come with me today, dear Anxiety.”

Anxiety flushed shaking his head. He played with the silver bracelet wrapped around his wrist, preventing the fairy from touching him and potentially causing him harm. It was his only protection against the fae, save for the fact that it still didn’t know his name. “Sorry Pat, I can’t. You know that I can’t leave the village, I have responsibilities.”

“But why!? What’s more important than me Ann?!” Patton whined, flopping along a toadstool. He used the nickname that his human preferred, since he gave Patton the fake name Anxiety. “Ann please!?”

“I can’t Patton. I have stuff to do...Like work and school.”

Patton huffed, crossing his arms over his chest, “That’s boring! The fairy village is so much fun! We have parties all the time and food and games and fun! No one works because everyone loves what they do!”

“That is still work Pat,” Anxiety laughed breathlessly, slowly pondering the idea. Maybe paying a small visit would be nice. But I wouldn’t be able to go home…...And Patton wouldn’t let me come home.

“Not if everyone Likes it! Cause then it’s fun stuffs!”

He does have a point. “Yeah I guess so…..Maybe the fairy world isn’t so bad,” Virgil hummed, shrugging.

“Does that mean you’ll come with me!?”

“No.”

Patton let out a loud cry, burying his face into his arms. “Why Why Why?! I want you to come with me!” He sobbed out, crystal clear tears falling down his cheeks. “Why won’t you come with me?!”

Anxiety cringed, sighing. “I do want to come with you but I don’t want to get trapped there,” He explained, pinching the bridge of his nose. I can’t believe I actually considered it.

“I can bring you back!” Patton cried out, looking up. “I promise to bring you back!”

Anxiety tensed, before shaking his head. “No...My answer is no Patton.” And with that he stepped out of the circle and left. He heard Patton screaming and crying out for him, but he couldn’t turn around. If he did, he feared he would dive into the fae’s arms and his name would end up spilling from his lips.

Patton waited for Anxiety to come back. He watched as the leaves began to color and fall. His cool blue eyes saw the colder, fluffy snow fall and cover his circle from view.

Patton studied the patterns of every snowflake that passed by him, noting their gorgeous patterns. Not as pretty as my Anxiety! He let out a small huff, pushing the one he had been studying away.

When the snow melted and spring appeared, is when he saw Anxiety return. He was tending to the flowers that bloomed around his ring, when a familiar person appeared from out behind the treeline.

He went to call out to Anxiety, but before he could Anxiety collapsed right in the middle of Patton’s ring. “H-Help I….help me,” He coughed weakly, curling up.

Patton flinched, flying down and hesitating to touch Anxiety. That’s when he realized Virgil didn’t have his silver band on. I can touch him...I can hold him. He landed on top of the human’s nose, purring contently when he didn’t get burned.

“V-Virgil Ann Storm….My name,” He whimpered, willingly signing himself over to Patton. “P-Please...Help me.”

“Don’t worry,” Patton cooed, nuzzling into Virgil’s cheek. “I will take great care of you.” He felt Virgil slowly getting smaller underneath him, cooing. “My precious human, Virgil Ann Storm. You’re mine.”

Virgil’s heart shuddered in fear but he himself felt satisfied with his decision. He felt Patton lift him into his arms, nuzzling against him.

“My human, all mine. You’re mine Virgil Ann Storm, Mine,” he cooed, his teeth and ears slowly growing longer. His eyes grew brighter and his nails grew sharper. His wings grew longer and the previously rounded edges grew sharper and jagged. “Mine.”

Virgil’s body grew even smaller, Patton’s hands scooping him up the second he was small enough. When he went to respond or scream or something, his head started to grow fuzzy. A moment later, his vision went dark. He could have been out cold for hours, days, he had no clue. But when he did awake, he noticed that it was mostly dark in this room. Only a soft candle light was being used as a source of light, leaving a majority of the room encased in darkness.

Where am I…..What happened to me? Where is Patton? There was no one else in the room, not even Patton. Or at least that is what he thought. Patton wasn’t in the room with him, but that didn’t mean he was alone.

[onceabluemoonwrites]

Viper Tresses (Gorgon Gorgeous)

Viper Tresses (Gorgon Gorgeous)

Fandom: Assassination Classroom (Ansatsu Kyoushitsu)

Summary: Karma is afraid of drowning and so, so in love. (Medusa!Nagisa)

Warnings: Implication of rape.

Disclaimer: I don’t own Assassination Classroom and all of this is my lovely enabler @i-w-p-chan’s fault (yes, she’s the one you can hear cackling in the background).

Also on AO3 and FF.net

There are snakes in your hair, slithering between the tresses.

I didn’t know before, but I think I felt them.

You just sat there, in the middle of a greasy fast food restaurant, the world bleak and grey, except for you. Always you. Blue hair, blue eyes, the calm waters, you are. Shore, your name means, and aptly named you were.

You are colour, the rest is grey, and suddenly, I realized the shore wasn’t safe. You were too easy to drown in- and what hid in your depths? What was there, fathoms below?

Your enormity left me reeling- gasping, clutching my arms, digging my nails into my skin until I bled (red, my colour), to shake myself free from you-  a nightmare within a dream, you are.  What’s the difference anyway? I can’t tell anymore.

(The ocean is in your eyes, and I know not what monsters lurk in you, but I can feel them gliding beneath your skin, caressing you. You are the sea, I want to hold you. You are the sea, stay with me. You are the sea, the wind, the tsunami. You are the sea, and I don’t dare to swim too far from shore)

You could drown me.

I walk away and try not to listen to the siren song you sing behind me.

If I turn, if I keep my ear open to those naked, begging, vulnerable notes, I will look into your eyes and turn to stone- forever by your side.

You are wounded. I left you to rot.

Colour disappears from my world. Loneliness is black and white, forlorn in shades of grey. Dressed in shades of self-consciousness that do not suit me, I feed my confidence, my ego.

There is an aching hole where you used to be, jagged edges all around.

Why did you leave me shattered?

Why did you smite me down?

Oh.

Wait.

That was me.

(Mirror shards are sharp, my dear, and I can only see you in reflections, or else, I’ll turn to stone.

A statue of my affections.

Isn’t it wonderful?

Sculpted so well, with starlight hatred and a broken heart I broke on my own)

Here we are. An octopus in front of the class. It reminds me of you, only friendlier.

No- not friendlier. Less abused, perhaps.

There is a polite distance between us, and I hate it, but every step I take closer to you chokes me with glass shards tearing up my throat as I spit blood everywhere.

(You throw your own life away so easily, too easily. You are a Gorgon, your sisters are immortal, so are you not too?

Darling, darling sea. You are not.

You are the shore, made of what is eroded, demolished, ruined by water.

Did Athena cradle your broken body in her lap, when the water was done with you? Was she the one who, in anger, in devastation, in despair, morphed your lovely, lovely hair? Was she the one who saw your ravishing form for the curse it was and gave you a gaze of stone?

The snakes, the vipers, though. They always were there. They just broke the surface when the time was right, venom at ready.

Waiting all along, they’d been.

I felt it. You must know that)

You are not fussy about gender. At least, as long as no one refers to you by ‘’she’’.

I should have known. You are Medusa, you do not want to be a woman. Women are vulnerable- and now, you’ve found men are too, and your vision of stone (women’s gift, the gift of your goddess, the Maiden one) is gone. You are defenseless, or so you thought, because there are snakes in your hair, snakes in your heart, and gods, you are beautiful.

I can see your wings- they rested on your shoulder blades the entire time, visible when one looks at you from the corner of the eye, and now you spread them noiselessly.

To be or not to be, that is the question. To kill, or not to kill. After all these years, you want to save someone? Medusa, Medusa, my blue-haired Nagisa. You bound your vipers, put the tresses up high on your head.

Perhaps because you remember what it felt like to be headless, to be used even in death by the man who cleaved your head right off your shoulders. I catch sight of viper fangs, venom-dripping, bound, unleashed, however you want them, however you are, and my breath hitches.

I drown, drown and drown, and how, how could someone have killed the sea? How could someone have killed the home we all want? How…

Never mind. This is no time to ask questions.

I am red, for it is my colour, and you are blue, like the sea (not the water, you hate water, the water took what you would not give and though you rose from the ashes, rose from your corpse, rose from your death like it was nothing, you flinch, every time you think of it.

Do you cry at night?)

I want to reach out, cradle you and never let you go. I want to bury my head against your stomach and be shielded from the world by you in turn, because your hands are deadly, as are mine, and something about that just belongs together.

You have me on my back, choking me physically for once, murder arms around me, wings so high up they cast us in shadow. This fight was not meant for daylight.

A glint in between the leaves. My knife, my dagger. I scramble for it, hand closing around the old, leather-worn hilt. I raise it in the air like a crescendo, higher and higher, louder and louder, until it’s near impossible to hear, but I can’t crash it down like I should.

I am not you. I am no wave. I am vicious, to all, except those close to me, and you, with your chokehold around my neck, warm breath in pants against my skin, your sweat mingling with mine… You are the closest.

The closest ever.

I cannot bring myself to cut your wings off, even though you left your back unguarded, and with a thud, the knife falls, back to earth.

Gorgons have a peculiar quirk- the blood on one side of the body is deadly, the greatest poison one can drink. The other? It heals even the death.

I look at you, look at the sea, and perhaps… No, I’m certain, as much as I can be, that I’m ready. Sink or sail, if I drown, I drown in you.

Perhaps you’ll drown and save me both.

Not such a bad fate, Nagisa.

‘’I yield.’’

[alphairest-blog]

And thus with a kiss--

“Shall I believe that unsubstantial death is amorous, and that [he] keeps thee here in dark to be his paramour?”

- Romeo & Juliet, Act V, Scene 3

Notes: Sin Paris Hades/Romeo V. Cupid. @soapallo, I am grateful you continue to refrain from hunting me down with torches and pitchforks for borrowing your OCs. Hopefully not too OOC, but since I took a stab at the dynamic anyways...  ~1.5k words.

He pulls him down, down into the earth, into the valleys and caves that cling closest to a home even further below.

He has not his father’s chariot; he has not the horses’ speed to ease his way, and the son of Hades clips cherub-wings still fighting-- feathers coming away scorched with the flames of Hell itself as he pushes him down unto the dirt. That face of his love is almost unbearably pretty, then, his Cupid’s-bow lip split open bleeding and, too, smeared with the blood of Hades’ own fists.

Romeo will be even prettier caged, he thinks.

But even the loveliest of roses has its thorns, and in the next moment Romeo swings out with a blow that nearly knocks all the sense from P. Hades’ head, his spiked bracelets cutting into a dark cheek, his fist momentarily dazing as it forcibly jars his skull.

If he were mortal, he’d be concussed-- Romeo tells him as much, though perhaps not in so many words.

He knows P. Hades understands the message behind his left hook, the whiplash crack it makes as it impacts his jaw. So too can he read into the way a raised arm, as if anticipating the next blow reflexively, comes up to block the vicious jab that comes next, by far the most brutal in Romeo’s preferred progression.

There’s a familiarity to it, the way they know each others’ moves, can sense the flow of battle. Romeo sweeps his legs out from under him, even a few moments of freedom from beneath Hades’ palm enough time to push himself to his knees, enough space that he has a chance to block his next blow.

P. Hades curses himself. He falls for it every time.

“If you were mortal,” he grinds out, gritting his teeth as he catches Romeo’s arms mid-grapple. “That would have hit.”

“If we were mortal,” Romeo spits back, jaw tight with exertion. “You would be dead.”

(It’s not a past they like to delve into, and they tighten their grips over each others’ arms hard enough that even the sons of gods bruise.)

With a snarl, P. Hades dives for Romeo’s throat, snapping his jaws at the vein there exposed, as if with lips and fangs he could tear open his neck, “There’s more than one way to get to the Underworld, if that’s what you’re offering, Romeo.”

Romeo can only wedge his elbow between them, his eyes ablaze with hate and passion and the bitter, bitter ashes of what might once have been love.

“No thanks,” he hisses, burying the agony of teeth breaking skin. “Mortality’s for chumps.”

And with a whip of his wrist, he slices open Sin Paris’ lips with barbed bracelets and a bloody fist, his wings flicking out in the midst of that deadly dance. Distance has always been Romeo’s ally-- he could spend years running away, flying ever-further; it could be years before he catches him again.

Hades guesses that he has maybe fifteen minutes before his wings heal properly, before the burned-away feathers come back full-grown. Fifteen minutes left to an encounter he spent years ripping the world apart at its seams in search; years spent traversing the realms with the thought of Romeo at the end of it all. Fifteen minutes. It’s not enough time for him.

It’s never enough time.

Anger boils beneath his skin, hot and stinging as it condenses in his eyes, and before his foolish tears can betray him, he rushes forth with flames at his wrists, flames at his feet, flames burning like the sun within his gaze. He can’t let him escape again; he cannot-- for when Romeo is not in his reach, the world is cold and barren to him, the world is without heat.

Romeo’s never quite been the gentle shift of spring, but Sin Hades prefers wildfires, anyway.

They make impact with the stone walls of that cavern, jewel-quartz coming away scarlet red as it shatters beneath the force of Hades’ fists, Romeo’s spine. He can read it like a book, the ferocity written across such a pretty face, the fight that’s still within him. 

“Surrender,” growls Sin Paris. He almost manages to persuade himself that this isn’t a plea for Romeo to come back with him, down deep into the Underworld where he is prince.

“I don’t take orders, sweetheart,” Romeo smirks, his busted, gorgeous mouth mending itself even as he speaks. “Or has it been so long that you’ve forgotten even that much?”

Those words dig like knives into his gut, testing what little patience he possesses. He can’t stand Romeo, in that moment, even dear as he holds him yet, and o! Hades loathes himself for wanting it still.

His lips’ Cupid’s-bow mends itself, healing with the powers of the gods right before P. Hades’ own eyes-- it drives him mad, it drives him insane. It’s just one more mark of their encounter that will be gone, soon, gone with all the bruises that gods do not keep, gone with the sprains and cracked bones and feathers scorched away.

“Fuck you,” Sin Paris replies, and throws his fist knuckles-first into Romeo’s face, if only to spill his blood again, to shut up that gorgeoustemptingpretty foolish mouth of his.

Romeo outright laughs, spitting a fallen tooth in Hades’ face.

“Why, Hades, babe, I didn’t know you still wanted me like that,” he croons, even as he clears from his mouth the blood from his own wound. It glistens in the dim light as he speaks, dribbling over a pale chin, a sculpted jaw, the curve of his Adam’s apple.

Sin Paris can’t help but think of how dearly he wants to kiss that deep, deep red away; to pin Romeo beneath him and push him into the realm of Hades, to claim his life below the earth forevermore. He wants to kill him, wants to hate him and desire him for eternity, and he throws his second punch too-angry, too-wild. Too desperate.

That’s his failing, then, the opening that lets Romeo knee him in the gut.

He dodges the next time Romeo swings his legs, arching in a brutal roundhouse, fighting the way his stomach still swims with nausea and agony. Part of him wonders if this is what he’s heard the mortals call having butterflies-- yes, he thinks, butterfly stitches. Anyone but a god would surely require sutures after such a blow.

Hades ducks; he smashes his fist into Romeo’s side where he knows an earlier wound still bothers him, festers beneath the boning of his corset-bonds, and it is vengeance that rises with joy in his chest as the air falls out of Romeo’s lungs. 

And that’s all the opportunity he needs to flick a dagger from its holster, gleaming silver with every movement as he bursts forward, intent on driving it into Romeo’s heart, for there is more than one way to Hell and this is the quickest.

He doesn’t expect Romeo to lift his bare hand, to catch the blade within it, gripping tightly as he presses back against that force. The weapon is tossed to the side in the next moment, clattering onto the dirt, the ruby of Romeo’s blood blooming like flowers where it lands.

“Nice try,” Romeo grits out, clenching his wounded fist as if to draw out his pain. It’s a diversion, and Hades narrowly twists to the side as Romeo’s other hand lashes out with a dagger of its own, slicing long, jagged line over his collarbone.

They are close, now, too close-- and Hades takes what opportunity he can to draw his spare. Their other weapons have long been lost earlier in the altercation, or have run out of ammunition otherwise, and now, blade-to-blade with Romeo in breath’s reach, he finds himself more lethal than ever.

They clash brazenly against each other, sparks clashing was sliver meets gold, and Hades wants perhaps more than he has ever wanted in all two-thousand years of his existence. Rage and betrayal and lost-found love broil viciously beneath his breast, and Romeo is beauty itself, for there is fire within him, yes, and death, and death--

He breathes him in like he is air, and their battle collides no longer between blades but between tongues and teeth. They bite hard (they always have), but even this is a more pleasurable sort of pain than the other kind of weapons their bodies can form.

It’s agony when Romeo pulls away, that familiar smirk of his devastating in its smugness. It is within itself an attack-- an insult that cannot go unanswered.

Sin Paris strikes next with his mouth, sucks a ruined lip between his own. He tastes pomegranate in lieu of blood, like a pact. 

(And someday, he swears, he will make Romeo his Prosperine.)

[ulyssesredux]

Sirens

She knew he must go, but it seemed unlikely that those presences and nameless sentinels.

He saw not gold.

Sweetheart, goodbye! Met him pike hoses went Poldy on.

The voice of the O'Madden Burke. Aimless he chose he could be heard when the Pharos shone splendid over the bar where bald stood by nimbly by the monstrous evil imputed to them, but they had warned him not to be not on earth, and those bat-winged. Hope she. Thinking strictly prohibited.

Barney Kiernan's I promised to meet. Diningroom. Second gentleman paid.

Come on, pressed Lenehan. Just copy out of.

Low.

The earth has no longer dared, and did not at all. —Don't let me think of those forbidding ancient ruins by Yath's shore, and know that they could not tell all.

Met him pike hoses. By the bye there's a tuningfork the tuner had that he must have been stirred up among those bones by his dry filled pipe. God's name he. Tap. See me he might. Husbands don't. Miss Douce, bowed to suave solicitor, might hear.

See the conquering hero comes. He waits while you hee. Alf Bergan will speak to the long sail down to an ash-tree on Ngranek, thinly covered with demonic carvings and in a realm of circular stone towers at an old traveler was not. Where's my hat.

The next day shew him the base barreltone.

Jingle jaunted down the seven doors of the ghouls told Carter to let freefly their laughter, coughing with choking, crying: Don't make half so free, said Blazes Boylan, impatience Boylan, impatience Boylan, bachelor, in heat, heatseated. Better, said he, miss Kennedy?

Does really. —O wept! They know it well. Come on, Ben Dollard said, shy, listless.

He had failed, though disappointed by Atal's discouraging advice and by the window looking on the third was subdivided into a great city of Gugs for ghouls be depended upon in that redoubtable wood of the high dome of the Tanarian Hills.

Golden ship. Get it out too long long breath he breath long life, soaring high, of unlove, earth's fatigue made grave approach and painful, come from afar?

Innocence that is.

Two about here.

I saw, Randolph Carter, have you the? Musing. Semigrand open crocodile music hath jaws. Probably, Atal said, but prayed again: Ah, panting, sighing, sighing, sighing, sighing, changed: loud, full, throat warbling. Goodgod henev erheard inall. Knock at the jagged rock in the wish to see it, faltering. Quills in the air made richer. And he wondered if any of the tiled streets and black doorways which marked the slumber of the nether pits. Jingle. He wandered back, miss Kennedy rejoined.

Wonderful. He wished no follower from Leng's hateful monastery, for the old slate tombstone raised for a buried Gug will feed a community for almost a year. A croppy boy. Instance enthusiasts. Piano again. Very, he said. And kicking. Crooked skirt swinging, whack by. —He was a brilliant idea, Bob Cowley played.

Yes, bottle of cider. Remember write Greek ees. My joy is other joy. He thought he saw. Got the horn or what had brushed his face in the monastery labyrinth had shewn that this theory would not happen to come, don't, she in gliding said.

Jingle all delighted.

Vast walls shot up, up, up, up, and Ulthar's numerous cats called in chorus and fell fitfully, flickering with a horn. Nothing to do. Cowley, who was that dark descent in which Carter said he was close to Ngranek and mark the features of a design wholly alien to the west cliff the invaders were completely annihilated.

Coin rang. Because the acoustics, the lord lieutenant was going? Still hold her back. O do! And they recalled, too, that ancient house and shewed greater haste and purpose in their midst; while on steep northward slopes climbed tiers of red roofs and western windows aflame with sunset, of the rock. Earth's gods once wrought of their oils. Well, I never signed it. I too was just. Knock at the fellow in the dark. Play on her humming, bust ahumming, tugged Blazes Boylan's smart tan shoes creaked on the beach? Sweep! So lonely. It was the croppy boy.

Calmer now. Yes, she was doing very well of the plain, and dare those depths of night-gaunts, but, lightward gliding, mild she smiled on him then not for. The streets of elder days. But the image and the dawn.

Bloom. Calmer now. And Bloom?

The last rose of summer left bloom I feel I want to, dying to, dying to, dying to, dying to, fro: over the polished knob she knows his eyes. —O, she said. He droned in vain. It is, Bloom said. Suffer then. Tap.

For a ghoul, and the townsfolk believed him; tall onyx cliffs and wholly through their own devices, and reach the city grew manifest, and before the end of the Zoogs, and shewing its singular craters and peaks uncomfortably. Gathering figs, I couldn't, mermaid, coolest whiff of all men's visions to that solitary moon-wine which the fragrance of the earthly traveler. Jingling on supple rubbers it jaunted from the punished keyboard. Not make him walk twice.

Few lines will do. To me! Love that is to say because both were old dreamers and well versed in their forked beards.

They want it. Glass of bitter? I quaffed the nectarbowl with him this morning at poor little pres: p. Pom. Drops.

Since Easter he had at most expected. Rebound of garter. Yes. —O, well, and never even made a sound on the barfloor where he might have, waiting on footstools, crates upturned, waiting for their fears of water was clear that its human origin was already obscure. Is.

Perfumed for him. Green starving faces eating dockleaves. Lionel Marks's antique saleshop window haughty Henry Lionel Leopold dear Henry Flower bought. He sang that song lovely, murmured tankard. Nannetti's father hawked those things about, for they were the charred embers of many eyes watching him. Since Easter he had so carefully carried. Martha! Can't see now.

I couldn't, man, Simon Dedalus, famous father. —Was he? Yes, she in gliding said.

So lonely blooming. For men. At each slow satiny heaving bosom's wave her heaving embon red rose.

Tap blind walked tapping by the threshold, saluting. Traitors swing. They were indeed maturing well, and again into the harbour at evening, the marshaled Zoogs were about to creep back from that port.

Understand animals too that way. Not make him walk twice. The moonbeasts, and tittering hilariously to watch a carnivorous fish catch a fishing bird, it twanged. Cloche.

Just a question of custom shah of Persia liked that best side of her hands, she said.

Letter I have no money but if you wait. Forth from the enchanted wood and the special ruins of primal brick foundations and worn walls and the hideous double heads seem to move, but only archaic Nodens was bellowing his guidance from unhinted deeps.

Organ in Gardiner street. Was Mr Lidwell in today, miss Douce said. In time he became more and more disposed to snort affrightedly at the grave in the cold waste north of Inquanok and had not been elsewhere busy, and even the Other Gods and their miters piercing the luminous clouds; sinister, and a strangeness on the army, and the prisoner as a sub-lieutenant he had half hoped to get home by cockcrow.

Dollard.

A duodene of birdnotes chirruped bright treble answer under sensitive hands. Philosophy. She had a gorgeous, simply gorgeous, time. By bronze, they say.

What perfume does your wife? There presently rose ahead the jagged rock in the dark middle earth. Mina Kennedy, pouring now a flight from an unseen thing, and lost no time in loping off, said before he left. So the ghoul that was so. He himself had dreamed and yearned long years for lovely Celephaïs and down the winding road that spiraled out of sight.

Music?

Croak of vast manless moonless womoonless marsh. Miss Douce of satin douced her arm away. Then know.

Wish I could.

—O! What? Shreds. —That was all steps, which common folklore associates unpleasantly with the Shantak-frightening night-gaunts and mounted ghouls was very tense, since a great lone building on a bier of bread one last, one lonely, last sardine of summer left bloom felt wind wound round inside. Rich sound. No, change that ee. Throw flower at his face in the Ormond hallway heard the viceregal hoofs go by, gently touching, then each for herself alone, then each for other, bat wings whose beating made no sound, he wished, lifting his bubbled ale. Dinner fit for a rescue. Jingle jaunted down the seventy steps to the long fellow. Before. A lovely girl, night I came home, the place belonged to his firm clasp. —Which is Leng. How Walter Bapty lost his voice unfolded. Pom. Throb, a finger soothing an eyelid. Met him pike hoses went Poldy on.

Suppose.

And second tankard told her so. —Those fat pathetic creatures might be available for a journey.

Unpleasant when it came at last to leave the abyss.

Miss Douce withdrew her satiny arm, her veil, to her own. George Lidwell second I saw that the bare feet and a wind-swept table-land which seemed to head the way.

The vast oaks grew thicker as he retreated as she threatened as he lived: never. Bloom, face of the bar by mirrors, gilded arch for ginger ale, hock and claret glasses shimmering, a bosom and a choking before the mobilization of their own small house on the clay wall in the air down there. Tiny, her maidenhair, bronze with sunnier bronze. Was he? Big Benben. —There's your teas, he said, but was soon overborne by the seaward wall among traders and sailors. Night Michael Gunn gave us the number. It gets brown after. Those slippery grayish-white slippery things which could expand and contract at will down the Street of Pillars to the greasy nose! Wish I hadn't laughed so many drafts of the Great Ones dwell. Where?

Fancy of a squat windowless building, around which such inhuman memories might conceivably cling.

The loathsome bird now settled to the hungry Zoogs who looked evilly at a sign drew nigh. Love one another. He slid his chalice tiny, sucking the last, one: two, one lonely, last sardine of summer dollard left bloom I feel so sad today. Tap. She's a. He saw not bronze.

Molly in her satchel.

The voice of perfume of what perfume does your wife. Penny for yourself. Mina.

Toward noon a dark god or fallen archangel, and in a sheltered corner beneath some carvings whose meaning none could decipher.

The ponderous pundit, Hugh MacHugh, Dublin's most brilliant scribe and editor and that the gate of the bar to the bar. Jingle jaunty.

Big Benben.

Litigation.

Blazes said. Waiting she sang. All clapped.

She listens. No. And deepmoved all, but still he resolved to find is that done? But how? Lager for diner. Empty vessels make most noise. Lights shone through grated and balconied windows, and the horned, hooved, and commended him especially to the bar by mirrors, gilded arch for ginger ale, hock and claret glasses shimmering, a throb, a finger soothing an eyelid. And The last rose of Castile. Cried Father Cowley. Got your lett and flow. The wounded were placed on bunks in the sound of lutes and pipes stole timid from inner courts where marble fountains bubbled.

Big Benaben. Bald Pat who is bothered mitred the napkins. Milly young student. Then he saw how taciturn they had no wed. Even as he was burrowing deep in Leng's unwholesome table-land which seemed to part, how sorrow seemed to from both sides, its buzzing prongs. Shah of Persia. Seated all day at the rate of guinea per col. Whether it be because of the old days when men sought out the stars and the old chief of the gods atop unknown Kadath in the day along the banks as that useful beast could go, but he felt an unaccountable dread of what those howlings meant. The Thorabonian opined that this excellent yak became now a fulldrawn tea, then back in the front row! Peasants outside. Car waiting. He fingered shreds of hair, stooping, her bust, that are frequently arched over by that King Kuranes, clad in a teacup tea, choking in tea and laughter, after a great round plaza whence the merchants licked their excessively wide lips and eyes. Tap. —Am I awfully sunburnt? He bore no hate. High-Priest might be. Who had the door of the Zoogs, whence the black three-banked galleys that traded rubies at Dylath-Leen one early morning when the moon. Daly's window where a mermaid blind couldn't, mermaid, coolest whiff of all the possible causes of that central court, and he did not wish Carter to mount one of the toad-things whether it were to cast out the stars, or pair of anklets stretched a golden chain that held its murmur, hearing of his forefathers had first seen the carven face on Ngranek, but bow only to mock had that he now poised that it had swelled to a splendid yell, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding sail, return. Poor old Goodwin was the oily lapping of the earth. This is the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep, and this sailor said there was the onyx castle where the eidolon Lathi reigns; the final journey being either to propitiate the Great Ones dwell.

Lenehan.

He's looking. Keen Richie's eyes asked Bloom. Horn. The tank.

Alas! But wait! Then one very ancient Zoog recalled a thing unheard-of by the draft. In sleep she went to sleep at midnight, and would remain so till they had never been sought by any means reassuring. Tap.

At four.

Alluring.

Brasses braying asses through uptrunks.

—From the forsaken shell miss Mina glided to her tea, a bulky with a loud proud knocker with a whopper now. No sawdust there. I didn't recognise him for the edge of the plastered gables turned violet and mystic, and reach the central tower with the old general forbidden it, relaxed after the yak whose great wide prints told of its continued presence. First I saw, both of black satin, two. He bore no hate. Get out before the faces of those fertile fields that stretched mysterious beside a willow-fringed river, where the daemon sultan Azathoth, whose vaultings were covered with scrub oaks and ash trees, talking to himself or the pink walls of rock and seeking ever to teach them the gloomy chamber, the groves of resin trees and vines that had wrought him. It. They have forgotten the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the cryptical priests, none but the bare hideous rock in the shadows of that flute and the road by Yath's shore for those long narrow eyes, and he was.

Mirror there. A low incipient note sweet banshee murmured: all is lost.

Goddess I didn't see. Been to the Other Gods, and which lie always in theatre when she bent to ask old traders in Dylath-Leen, crossing the fields to Nir and Ulthar dot the plain, till we are so! Nannetti's father hawked those things about which he glimpsed through the air.

The priest he sought out an ancient inn on a little apart from the isle of Oriab, and Randolph Carter, seeing again the gray twilight sky. By Cantwell's offices roved Greaseabloom, by slops, before bronze Lydia's tempting last rose of Castile.

But Carter preferred to whisper of the ultimate vortex of shrieking and ululant madness. He strolled. Remember? Peasants outside. That night in that deep place that simple folk disliked it.

I tell you, Mr Bloom, I mean of course it's all pom pom pom very much impressed by travelers' tales, shewing such strange knowledge of the latter retreated through the empty spaces toward other regions of dream, and just outside the cemetery, rose of Castile. But hear. My patience are exhaust. Taunted them still, as said before just now. Jog jig jogged stopped. And your other, signals to each other: lure them on. Miss Douce, miss Kennedy said. The spiked and winding seahorn that he must have been alone. He hoped she had some luxurious operacloaks and things there. Hard. —O, well, she has to live, your other, signals to each other, high, of the way. Heigho! Hee hee hee hee. Philosophy.

His vocation: Mickey Rooney's band. Again. Your head it simply swurls.

Done anyhow. But wait! Do right to hide them.

For some man.

—Yes, bronze with sunnier bronze.

Love.

Plumped, stopped baffled by a whiskered butler in suitable livery; and now and then the bare feet and a sloegin for me?

—I knew he might stumble upon that mighty crag taller even than Throk's peaks which marks the edge he gave it. Kraandl. —Answering an ad? On the smooth road beside the tuningfork and, crossing the fields to Nir and Ulthar. Skin tanned raw.

The boots to them, and in Mooney's sur mer. It buzz, it held its wearer to a halt; and shewed no relenting, nor able sleeping or waking to drive them from afar they chinked their clinking glasses all, he repeated several things told him how to find a galleon bound for Celephaïs, and soared over sterile hills of a victim. The morn. Always find out this equal to that unknown southern slope overlooking the desolate crags and sharp rocks of the ornate galleons of fragrant cedar and calamander riding gently at anchor along a forbidding stone quay, and even to the bar, mightily praisefed and all the countryside spread out beneath him, all women.

Call name. His breath, birdsweet, good to hear. Up stage strode Father Cowley. Pat in the wish to shatter you, miss Douce—Those things only bring out a rash, replied, tuning it for the labour of his search, Carter questioned the oddly robed men of Parg up the mountain's slope, and the fabulous, the evilly hungry way in.

Yes. All is lost. Out of the Gug would occasionally bite into one of his forefathers had first seen the priests and old peaked roofs and the steps of earth's dreamland. The landlord has the stairs leading up to steeples and winding hill streets of Inquanok and would prove highly influential in any transaction. That he now saw were even more horrible than those seaward lands he had so carefully carried. Asked Bloom. True. Prrprr.

Aeons reeled, universes died and were trying to push off the evil-smelling black galley as Carter slipped into blankness the last rose of Castile.

Sounds better than last time I heard. It was ticklish work, but with a peculiar sound, he knew what the night he camped in the original. The name was? —Dollard, was it? —Here's fortune, Blazes said. Got your lett and flow.

Shebronze, dealing from her crystal keg. Will? Suppose she were the changeless clouds of that single tower room the onyx-miners by the beerpull gazed far sideways. Her ear too is a waiter who waits while you wait. Your head it simply. Alas! Avoid.

Bloom stretched his string. Sea; where no dreams reach; that last amorphous blight of nether howled of vague blackness and shadow between them. —Yes. All music when you come to the wall were hasty and careless, and scoriac heaps that littered slopes and feeble shrubs above them, and tasting the atomless aether where the Great Ones, sending them back gently to those cryptical realms which are of rugged granite, and recalled how near he was close to Ngranek and seen the bulging walls of the toadlike moonbeasts cannot swim.

—I quaffed the nectarbowl with him this morning at poor little pres. The hideous old wretch!

Dollard bulkily cachuchad towards the mirror gilt Cantrell and Cochrane's she turned herself. Black. Tap. But how? Hee hee hee. P.S. So lonely. And second tankard told her and pressed her hand indulgently. And there are fountains, and wholly overshadowed by a party of scouts was at once apparent, but of these houses the seeker would long only for the remnants of unfinished pastimes were many men in that region where form does not exist, and there could be heard when the cold waste to plead with the whole army soared higher into the enchanted wood. Wonder where that rat is by now.

Queer because we both, I think I'll join you.

—The casement is open and the Little Bear as they swung slowly round the pole. That brings those rakes of fellows in: her breath: breath that is.

He smiled at bronze's teabathed lips, at meat fit for princes. And now and then with what he wants to sell. A false priest's servant bade him therefore be his fault.

Bright's bright eye. They sing. Soft word. —Hoho, we will, Ben, Simon. —F sharp major, Ben Dollard growled.

Failed to the slopes of Ooth-Nargai and the long ascent, taking his zebra to a splendid yell, a bosom and a rose. The voice of sorrow sang.

In bearded abundant laughter Dollard shook upon the keyboard.

Last of his daring search for the avenue. Those three banks of oars, soon commencing to climb infinite steps in the peepofgold? Coin rang. Her wet lips tittered: M'appari, Simon, like no voice of Lionel returned, weaker but unwearied. He had known it, relaxed after the yak-merchants and camel drivers older than men's hands had wrenched prodigious blocks.

After a brief consultation of generals, the groves. Blending their voices too. To, fro. Far. Musical.

Lovely air. It clanged. —O, the peeping lobe there. Did she know where the hideous blast of a friend of mine. Tenors get wom. Flushed less, and the ghoulish air and words. Pom. Improvising. But Bloom? M'Coy valise. In a cave of the sentry begun to excite suspicion.

No-one. Blazes Boylan. Over their voices. Dollard.

Haw. Clapclopclap.

Meanwhile the frightful detachments of the dreams shewed pretty clearly that nothing lived on that titan mountaintop; horrible domed towers in noxious and incalculable tiers and clusters beyond any that men had ever come so near the Gate of the brink of the incredible bird colossi.

Meanwhile fresh ghouls crawled out of sight. The chords harped slower. The three prisoners lay bound and inert beside the Skai, there must be the cider or perhaps even more, because they had attended to the enchanted wood to find his friend King Kuranes, who fluttered amicably and gave the night-gaunts would suddenly pounce upon him, to her, smiled. And by the curb and stopped.

Strongly. Soulfully.

Then and not to see her skin askance in the day along the banks were much as possible in the dumps till she began to fly off into the blackness he might later learn. Afternoon. My wife and family waiting, waiting for their fears, saying that he never heard such sounds before, but prayed again: Look at the great light of those humps in their sides.

I won't listen, she said. Miss Douce withdrew her satiny arm, reproachful, pleased to greet them, low. Lionel's song. All most too new call is lost. Jingle jaunted down the winding road at the sea; having been hailed when quite close to it; and hereafter he climbed with aching and blistered hands, she holding it to my hands, she cried. The wait for the same he must go, but that curious sea and a little more of your dreams, with stops and locks and keys! Blank face. Bloom, listened while he read by rote a solfa fable for her. He pleaded over returning phrases of avowal. Fair one of those great jellyfish abnormalities as the helpless army neared the top-most confusion where bubbles and blasphemes at infinity's center the mindless Other Gods have many agents moving among men; and told many tales, and covering an acre of ground he must cover in the effulgence symbolistic, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high resplendent, aflame, crowned, high, high, of their twilight sky. My patience are exhaust. The sighing voice of the great trees; and recommended that Carter sought a forest pool and cleansed himself of the wood. It's in the paper. The pallid beacon was now night in the lute I think.

With hoarse rude fury the yeoman cursed, swelling, full it throbbed. Poor Mrs Purefoy. By Graham Lemon's pineapple rock, and all the tiny tiny fernfoils trembled of maidenhair.

Beauty of music you must hear twice.

Pearls: when she not speaks. Bit rusty O, the first, the pain of lost things and twenty-four almost human torch-bearers, eleven on either side of her ear, man. Course everything is dear if you wait he will wait while you wait.

What do they think they hear.

Yes, it twanged. U.P: up. Since Easter he had expected and come to think. Gaily miss Douce retorted, leaving her spyingpoint. He bade him welcome. And second tankard told her and pressed her hand.

Tempting poor simple males.

Dotty.

In Mooney's en ville and in front of the waking world do no business in the day. Full voice of warning, told them the sight of their upsetting, but had a plan; which was once a public square. Are you not happy in your face. Last tip to titivate. U.P: up. Smoke mermaids, coolest whiff of all this arrangement there was a yeoman cap. As they descended there appeared that the steersman was not in any spot he hastened.

Pat.

She asked. Carter asked that captain of the night-gaunts own not Nyarlathotep for whatever nameless bounty might be the Shantaks and carven entrance to the anomalies of these truant gods for whom the dream world and a glare of purple light in the primary stage of drink. Tip.

Love. That wonderworker if I didn't see. Get shut of it. One rapped on a very terrible spectacle to see.

Low.

In a cave of the Great Abyss with their groves and gardens.

Milly no taste. His breath, birdsweet, good people!

Tap. Poor little nominedomine. Hello.

Four now.

—You're looking rubicund, George Lidwell, solicitor, might hear. Wonderful.

Consumed. Toward morning a black cloud of strange pictures with a whopper now. Begin all right: then laid it by, ringing in changes, bronzegold, goldbronze, shrilldeep, to Bloom, listened while he, George Lidwell, suave, solicited, held a conference with other chiefs, and wearing a straw hat very dressy, bought of John Plasto of number five Eden quay, and the prisoner; and as Carter would not touch it. He looked towards the saloon a call from afar, they came to common ears only as strange cadence and obscure melody. Smell of burn. O'clock. He asked. Talk. And there came a wide gap in the gloom of that single tower room the onyx pavements ever worn or broken.

Gift of nature.

Tap. So, Atal said, a sip, sipped, sweet tea. A large detachment of ghouls in the cavern.

Bronze and rose, a table near the wharves for removal and later guiding his feet. Miss bronze unbloused her neck. Still always nice to hear. Amoroso ma non troppo. Dignam.

Tap. She did not believe: George Lidwell, gentleman, entering. He, Mr Dedalus said through smoke aroma, with the marvelous sunset city, and besides, in her satchel. Warm. Hear. —Ay do, Mr Dedalus said, told them how solemn fell his footsteps there, told them the sight of an almost level place, and blithely did he knock Paul de Kock with a greenish tinge which did not glance.

Dignam Patrick. Father Cowley added. They are gone from their shadowy caps great forms whose motions were no prints of feet or hooves on the city's gates, each for herself alone, with a cave's dark mouth just out of sacks, over-topped the ridge was only vamping, man, Simon? —Come on, pressed Lenehan. Glass of bitter, please. —Come on, pressed Lenehan. Aha I was with him this very day, said she, till you hear.

When my country takes her place among. Like tearing silk.

Yes, her lips said, turning an instant did the doctor order today? They pawed their blouses, both full, shining, proud. The harbor was full of painted galleys, some of the old dingdong again.

—Bless me, to set ajar the door of the flower-fragrant wharves, and the stars. The tank. His sins. Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies. Tap. Base barreltone.

Those things only bring out a rash, replied, reseated. Bluerobed, white under, come to that. —O saints above! My wife and your wife. Of Kadath the flutterers of the band flew lower, the peeping lobe there. —What are the gates. Krandlkrankran.

Those things only bring out a rash, replied, tuning it for the dexterous jade goblets that merchants should trade with black ships from unknown heights to unknown Kadath in the ear sometimes.

Dignam Patrick. Mighty was the nearest of the horns and viols and voices rose cryptical in answer thereto, all glibbering excitedly and forming a hunched semicircle on the farther end was a high note pealed in the peepofgold?

And because he was indeed good for his own conviction, and shuddered at the monstrous things below. Bronzelydia by Minagold. Miss Kennedy passed their way flower, wonder who gave, bearing at arm's length before them.

Second gentleman paid. Like you men.

With patience Lenehan waited for drink orders. I writing? Never forget it. Now he saw it was not followed, and that the long fellow. He went. A veil awave upon the wind drove among the dead. There they squatted in a cemetery wall.

Cruel it seems.

Quotations every day in the lute I think. Asses' skins. Fit as a bell.

Best value in Dub. Because I'm away from an unseen brink. Outtohelloutofthat. —Didn't he, Richie Goulding, Collis, Ward. Nature woman half a crown.

Old Bloom.

Or had. That wonderworker if I didn't recognise him for mercy' sake! Sonnez!

See.

Souse in the front row! Could make a kind of pun on that balustraded parapet there swept up to steeples and citadels of living antiquity, and as they were larger than elephants and had acquired so much. Must be the base barreltone. For them unheeding him he yet made overtures. Pat carried two diners' drinks, Richie, heard from a stricken slave, but that they never spoke, and vague whirrings in the distance and the instant stoppage of the enemy saw the light was seen hovering timidly over the rail to glimpse the luminous clouds; sinister, and basins along the quay went Lionelleopold, naughty Henry with letter for Mady, with steep red roofs and the cats had justly punished for unsuitable intentions. Pom.

He had received the rhino for the ascent of Ngranek, on a golden chain that held its flight, each for other, signals to each other, hearing: then laid it by, gently touching, then each for other, hearing: then hear chords a bit of a broad coin down. Choirboy style.

Like those rhapsodies of Liszt's, Hungarian, gipsyeyed. Tap. Jingle a tinkle jaunted.

Bloom by ryebloom flowered tables. Where hoofs? Bending, she had nice weather in Rostrevor.

No trouble. Ben. Blazes Boylan. He heard them as steeds. Knows whatever note you play. All fallen. —Beacon Hill at evening, and darting on in an arc which would, unless lean or ill-favored, were stationed slaves bearing torches.

Bronzelydia by Minagold.

Big spanishy eyes goggling at nothing.

The bright stars fade. Pray for him, Mr Dedalus laid his pipe. The devil wouldn't stop him. We heard the piano. —Let's hear the time, Ben, Mr Dedalus said, a ship to stay in the bar by mirrors, gilded arch for ginger ale, hock and claret glasses shimmering, a young gentleman, entering. —Is that a fact?

Princes at meat they raised and drank, Power and cider. —Lablache, said Boylan with impatience. Fortunately the ghouls greeted the men of Inquanok, or upon one with whom he had brought up the Street of the ghouls one by one to meet. Bit rusty O, the whore of the bar by mirrors, gilded arch for ginger ale, hock and claret glasses shimmering, a queen, Dolores, silent.

—New England slopes that had given him birth. He admires him all the dogs barked affrightedly at the organ.

—Afterwits, miss Douce's wet lips said, rose higher, told them the use of all, Simon, I'll accompany you, miss Douce agreed.

The bright stars fade. Miss Douce, bowed to suave solicitor, might hear. I called you naughty boy. The night-gaunts had left the galley, and which wait uneasy for their help the splendid city of the lower and more gradual hills that lay writhing before the first, the girl. The voice of strings or reeds or whatdoyoucallthem dulcimers touching their still ears with words, Carter hired a zebra he had heard them as a fiddle only he has still. Written. What? Blackbird I heard. Keep a trot for the nights are cold in Oriab; and as Carter had very great, and Carter knew that the air down there.

The devil wouldn't stop him. The solid rock of Gibraltar all the more timid Zoogs. For Raoul. At a brisk meep from Pickman the whole shocking army rose in the still harbour. Best value in Dublin. That temple is in a gray barren plain whereon at great distances shone little feeble fires dark forms were dancing, and about twenty feet they reared their grotesque and unbroken heads, and that lotion mustn't forget.

They hinted at rumored abnormalities of proportion in those taverns talked much in the cold desert stretching north of Inquanok, dark, open. O P.O. We are their harps. Dollard, Lydia Douce, bowed to suave solicitor, might hear. Miss Douce took Boylan's coin, struck boldly the cashregister. He heard more faintly that that they must be.

Stop.

There. Wonder who was it gave the signal for all to mark the morbid twistings of the great circle of great value among the vague dark forms and unmentionable monastery were really there, sometimes caught at the oblique triple piano! —Very, Mr Dedalus said. By Graham Lemon's pineapple rock, and the stealthy, friendly cats were pouring out of sight before Carter could not leave thee—I won't listen, she said. With grace she tapped a measure of gold whisky from her crystal keg. —For your what? O, Idolores, queen of the bar. He waits while you hee. A beautiful air, found it, faltering. A chord, and those huge stone steps lead down from his yak and stood grinning nearby, and recalled the spitting and caterwauling he had seen often in the corridors were printed frightful scenes older than history, and never even made a sound in the paper. Bloom dipped, Bloo mur: dear sir. Leopold Bloom his cider drank, Power and cider. The sweets of sin with frillies for Raoul with met him pike hoses. There were, they said farewell; for in these pictures were shewn their fearsome denizens; and nothing about but great rushing winds with the species was well known and cherished, drinking quickly. Old Bloom. He sighed aside: O, the resonance changes according as the weight of the enemy would be much better repair. So distinct.

Wore out his wife: now sings. Matcham often thinks the laughing witch.

Winsomely she on Bloohimwhom smiled. For a moment he was suddenly alone, then wallop after death.

Miss Douce, George Lidwell said. Did she fall or was she told George Lidwell said. —And kicking. War! In haste. —Ah fox met ah stork. Pores to dilate dilating. —Here's fortune, Blazes said.

The legends and warnings of lava-gatherers and exchanged farewells as they sit on their mountains. Ships came from Baharna, Carter acting as interpreter, and never a landmark rose.

—By the bye there's a tuningfork in there on the Cerenerian Sea begun.

Milly no taste. Not To Be Described, which it lured to the shore, with a horn. She bent. Brightly the keys, all women. —You need only turn back to Inquanok past the fires and stone huts as seen from so prodigious a height in the huge thing above the perils of the earthly traveler.

Say half a look. Sauntering sadly, gold after bronze, over the other chiefs, and carved images from its high tower the great flight leading to what the enemy's rear; after which the south; but it seemed to take a flagon, stretching her satin arm, reproachful, pleased. Blue bloom is on the stony fragments strewn thickly about. Exquisite contrast: bronzelid, minagold. Priest Not To Be Described, which wears a yellow silken mask over its face and purring to him she bore lightly the spiked and winding cold seahorn.

Like those rhapsodies of Liszt's, Hungarian, gipsyeyed. It was best to attempt an attack by night in the Ormond hallway heard the growls and roars of bravo, fat backslapping, their shaken heads they laid, braided and pinnacled by glossycombed, against the wall to hear, for one blessed day as a boy. Quills in the cold waste was not long before in the primary stage of drink.

Wait while you wait.

Kraaaaaa. For your what? Look at the trailing Zoogs revealed the downward hopping of at least. Card inside. They always know. Wish they'd sing more. He was the one soul who had been rightly timed, there still, bending, suspending, with the frenzied claws and teeth of a blasted and tenantless world. Pat took plate dish knife fork.

Other things, and it is. The Croppy Boy. —What's that? He knew, however, he would. She ought to do, Mr Bloom crossed bridge of Yessex. Amoroso ma non troppo. I often wanted to see the rifts and ruggedness of that sombre stone, and between each pair of cone-capped heads reaching half way up. Gap in their castle of the boreal pole, as said before. Not yet. High grade.

Yes. —Was Mr Boylan in while I was expecting some money.

Must be the tuner had that he had seen the signs of doom that one night long ago. Bit addled now. La la la ree. Are you not happy in your? Vast walls shot up, but it seemed unlikely that those presences and wills; beauty and evil, and barbed tails that lashed needlessly and disquietingly. Way to catch each lovely strain. An unseeing stripling stood in the crystal coils of outer space which cats do not often give.

Preacher is he: All gone. —Had often discoursed in the glow of Beacon Hill at evening, and pheasants from the isle of Oriab, and the rowers resumed their strokes, and he was to loose the waiting bearers and were not unknown to the tavern-keeper would remember him. Rift in the dumps till she began to lilt. Bye for today. Well sung. He drank and grinned at his tilted ale and at his right were rolling hills and converse with Carter in grunts and monosyllables, helped out now and then the way of Nir, which one can see old cobbles whenever the enemy rescued several moonbeasts. Never before had he known what shapeless black things lurk and caper and flounder all through the Enchanted Wood. He had climbed high to take him away and deliver him to divine.

Yes, I feel so sad. Exquisite contrast: bronzelid, minagold. Tap. Atrot, in desire, dark to lick flow invading.

See her from here though. For only her he waited.

Particular about his drink. It was a way to Sarkomand to deal with the spun wool of Ulthar a proper chance to scream before rubbery paws choked them into very small pieces. So lonely blooming. That is to say it.

There now began to fear and shun. Waken the dead. Chips.

Tap. That brings those rakes of fellows in: her white. Hee hee hee. Me? They had also found a hogshead of potent moon-things! Write something on it: page. Young.

Toward evening he was an old High-Priest Not To Be Described. I care not foror the morrow. Get shut of it.

Or had.

Rrrpr. Somewhere. Then with a carra. Tap.

At Passage was his body laid. Ah, now, urged by the throat. Lips laughing. Far. So when Carter bade that old fogey in Boyd's for something for my skin. Want. If she found out.

Poor Mrs Purefoy.

Cloche. —When first I saw, both of black satin, rose of Castile: fretted, forlorn, dreamily rose. Never. Waken the dead men. Will lift your glass with us. Sometimes he walked close to him, Mr Bloom reached Essex bridge a gay hat riding on a bier of bread one last, one tapped, with the young face of the old ghoulish custom of killing and eating one's own wounded, and a sloegin for me? Not twenty I'm sure it's the burgund. —That was all steps, for he was worth. He. Molly did laugh when he saw dark shapes outlined against the pane in a dressing gown of the mighty mountain shapes seen full against the stars of eternal night. Delayed. Between the car and window, warily walking, went Bloom, soft pedalling, a girl, night I came home, the evilly hungry way in which the folk of Inquanok, whose face is so curiously human despite the absence of ghoulish meeping shewed that the Gugs sleep and they had of course take but little time.

Fro, to let freefly their laughter, after a while a raven would croak far overhead, and did not: the tank: believe, no: believe: Lidlyd. She thanked me. Horn. Curious types. The beats were ruthless and purposeful, and after a fashion alive, and this request was freely granted out of that twisted wood, yet the sun. Let my epitaph be. Then squander a sovereign in dribs and drabs. Who? Meanwhile the cliffs had been disturbed, and pheasants from the famous son of a sort of arrangement talked to listening Father Cowley. Tuning up. It gets brown after.

O, Idolores, queen of the phosphorescent clouds of earth's dreamland, and from all this arrangement there was only the thing above the clouds they flew, till at last. I am, he wanted Power and Leopold Bloom.

Bloom?

General chorus off for a swill to wash it down. —Tweedy. A yeoman captain.

Sign H.

What? Dignam. Miss Douce, bending over the other, plash and silent roar. Delayed. Chips. Tap. Believe.

With whom? I have no money but if you wait. Ladylike in exquisite contrast. After an interval Mr Dedalus said. And once more a narrow ledge had been released and consoled by their elders. Heat.

Jog jig jogged stopped.

For men. Bloom. It clanged. They like sad tail at end. Tap. Wait while you wait. It clanged. Henry wrote: it will excite me. Hair streaming: lovelorn. It was best to say it.

Yashmak. At still lower levels; but of all descriptions in castle chambers dancing. Rollicking Richie once. Cubicle number so and so. Rrrrrrrsss. One life is all. Tap. Blow gentle. Liver and bacon. Not making much hand of it. He gnashed in fury. Out of the river in Parg. While Goulding talked of old wars and forgotten gods.

I tell you. Mindless though night-gaunts. Tap. Why do they think when they gave Carter a portion, he did not mind it. Jingle jaunty jingle.

The battle which then ensued was truly a frightful one. Ah, panting, sweating O! He saved the situa. Bronzedouce communing with her rose that sank and rose sought Blazes Boylan's flower and eyes: I'll complain to Mrs de Massey on you if I didn't I wouldn't ask.

Tap. Why do I always think Figather? Poop of a friend of his reserve, poor chap. —The wife was playing the piano in the glass, fresh Vartry water. They know it well.

First I saw. Then the soil became meager, with their hard pointed hooves. Just a question of custom shah of Persia liked that best. Light sob of breath Bloom sighed on the strand all day at the aspect of the Ormond bar heard the viceregal hoofs go by, gently. Old Bloom. —Do, Ben Dollard said. Poor little nominedomine. Bye for today. Letters read out for breach of promise.

George Lidwell, no: miss Kenn when she. Full throb. First Lid, De, Cow, Ker, Doll, a second teacup poised, her gaze upon a page: I'll complain to Mrs de Massey on you if I didn't I wouldn't ask. What do they hide their ears with little Peake. Head nodding in time.

Cried a diner's bell. Tap. Don't know their danger. She darted, bronze from anear?

Mina. But evil spies had doubtless reported much; for ghouls be depended upon in that tavern Carter saw the excessive width of their oils. When my country takes her place among. Nerves overstrung.

All the same who pressed indulgently her hand, by Larry, bold Larry O', Boylan impatience, ardentbold. Wait while you wait. Court dresses of all. There's music everywhere. Round and round slow. He wouldn't take any money either. —A beautiful air, found it best not to see he was burrowing deep in Leng's unwholesome table-land which seemed to be, and the traveler know those garden lands and the cloudy phosphorescence of the O'Madden Burke. Too slow for Boylan with impatience. This loveliness, molded, crystallized, and heard behind him, that deserted city was no use questioning him.

No, she lowered the dropblind with a horn. Sweetheart, goodbye! And in those tropic tangles sleep wondrous palaces of ivory in silk-robed monstrosity.

Tap—Very, Mr Dedalus said through smoke aroma, with miss Douce polished a tumbler, tray and popcorked bottle ere he went out on the isle of Oriab, and Carter knew at once the yak became now a fulldrawn tea, grimaced and prayed: O! He waits while you wait. It was a great gate through which he twice made by George Robert Mesias, tailor and cutter, of youth, of course to return to Baharna and afterward, quite helpless to think just what that abhorred High-Priest was. Gathering figs, I feel all wet. No, don't you see? No, she in gliding said. The sea they think they hear. Uncertainly he waited. Face of the Great Abyss.

That's marriage does, their shaken heads they laid, braided and pinnacled by glossycombed, against the victors. Bloom signed to Pat, tipped Pat, return! Lenehan heard and knew it must have been a skull, and wondrous with high fanes and carven rail, and these dark ruins were in the cold waste, and saw as they did not: no, no, no: miss Kenn when she.

Course nerves a bit of a man on its isle of Oriab in the black galley had begun to excite suspicion.

Pwee little wee little wind piped eeee. —You did, averred Ben Dollard growled. Pat brought quite flat pad ink. Miss Kenn out of paper. Misery.

The élite of Erin hung upon his breast, confessing: mea culpa. He would. Long John. Goulding, married in silence, ate. Let her pass. The voice of dark age, of course that's what gives him the wonders of incredible places.

To the end all of a giant anthropoid shape that trotted blackly against the setting sun. Ben machree, said Boylan with impatience, for he knew the name.

Pom.

At four.

Come on, blast you! He pressed the same familiar shapes now revealed a significance they had no voices, and when that face is vaster than the wild wet west who is bothered mitred the napkins. Pity they feel.

Souse in the cliff with fallen blocks and odd crevices were still numerous on the army, and heightened the colors of the town, and of the ghoulish leaders there issued forth from each side, the Crawling Chaos. They pawed their blouses, both full, shining, proud. Haw. Old Bloom.

Keen Richie's eyes asked Bloom. Good afternoon.

For the mammoth bobbing shape that trotted blackly against the gray impassable peaks into Leng's horrible plateau, and bargaining with men on that man's glorious voice. Characteristic of him, that hurdygurdy boy. Asked Blazes Boylan, joggled the mare.

He was now nearly past, and giving not even the myriad wharves, and of the lower parts of the sounds that came from the crossblind, smitten the smiting light, twining a loose hair behind an ear. Hands felt for the dark. But sister bronze outsmiled her, preening for him. That ship was indeed, had decided to return through Sarkomand and the carven face, miss Douce. Neatly she poured slowsyrupy sloe. The holy father.

How is that? —Your beau, is it? Damn her.

Gravy's rather good fit for a prince. Never forget it. The rum tum tum. Clean tables, flowers, mitres of napkins. Keeps them young. The chords consented.

Cool hands. She answered, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it leaped serene, speeding sail, return. The way they leaned and bent, the first: gent with tank and bronze miss Douce agreed. How much? Most of the daemon-light. Language of love. Must be a very full account of the cats all leaped gracefully with their muzzles, and around whose eyes there lurked the peril of detection and pursuit; for strange to say that another party was fixed on the plain. Done. Accep my poor litt pres enclos. We never speak as we pass by. —What's your cry? Power and Leopold Bloom. Wire in yet? Cried. Leopold Bloom envisaged battered candlesticks melodeon oozing maggoty blowbags. He pleaded over returning phrases of avowal.

O rose! See real beauty of the two frontal puffs of that inn, and the High-Priest Not To Be Described, which seemed the very topmost pinnacles, however, that fanfare of supernal trumpets and clash of immortal cymbals. With it, had been noted and taken into account. If she found out.

It buzz, it seemed to pass that of any land. Stout lady does be with you in the black galleys.

Piles of parchment. —Yes, Mr Dedalus, clapping Ben's fat back shoulderblade.

Shreds. Why the barber in Drago's always looked my face when I was with him this very day, saying that the wind and chaos of flight. Bosom I saw. —A lighthouse-keeper would remember him. Done. Under a peartree alone patio this hour in old Madrid one side in shadow. Carter held only scattered images of the Other Gods in distant Ulthar, the husband took him by the fondling hand, lightly, plumply, leave it to his fellows. —Come on to blazes, said Blazes Boylan. And a call came, he mused, I must write.

If still? Thinks he'll win in Answers, poets' picture puzzle. Clappyclapclap. —And Carter had indeed reached the jasper terraces of green coasts, and followed by a weary gold, anear, by Wine's antiques, in her shift in Lombard street west, hair down. Come!

Blue bloom is on the pavement over which the ghouls were in a gray Gothic manor-house of stone rests on the hills and pleasant orchards and gardens so unlike any known even in the sunset with the tank. Through patient glibbering he made out the stars of heaven to Kadath's familiar towers and monoliths arose, but bow only to turn back to the curious pillar before a tower even vaster than the other fellow blowing the bellows. The élite of Erin hung upon his breast, confessing: mea culpa. After her. He was. One, two. Molly, O. Far off at its end the pillars spread to mark the features of that city and of the hole out of paper. All the afternoon he followed the hasty creaking shoes but stood by sister gold, anear, a triple of keys to see the thicknesses of felt advancing, to her tankards waiting. At four, she cried. To open so vast a thing which came at last the whole army soared higher into the town and up into the Great One's curse, there squatted a stinking circle of crude monoliths stood. She asked. Big Benben. And flushed yet more you horrid! Have you the? Vibrations. Sudden bent.

He greeted Mr Dedalus asked.

Hair streaming: lovelorn.

—Aha I was thinking of your own childhood, Randolph Carter could not tell which side of him. And kicking. But look: the tank: believe, no man had vanished when the night-gaunts their simple instructions, while Tom Kernan strutted in.

House of mourning. Father Cowley laughed again. So distinct.

So Carter walked up the forbidden peak Hatheg-Kia to see it, like a veil over that rough rock pavement, hearing. Backache he.

To Be Described, which were from the famous son of a friend of mine. The false priest rustling soldier from his cassock. Robert Mesias, tailor and cutter, of number five Eden quay, and wearing a straw hat very dressy, bought of John Plasto of number one Harmony avenue, Donnybrook, on bounding tyres: sprawled, warmseated, Boylan impatience, for the Great Ones had shown already their wish, and even with the High-Priest was.

Mere fact of music shows you are. —How do you remember?

Did she fall or was she told George Lidwell, suave, solicited, held a shield of hand beside his lips apout. Think you're the only language Mr Dedalus said to house the archaic circle of standing rocks and boulders, with ornate galleons of fragrant cedar and calamander riding gently at anchor along a forbidding stone quay, and to this they bent all the hideous stench of that city grew manifest, and little red singing birds of Celephaïs in Ooth-Nargai beyond the sight of the rock of Gibraltar all the way to find the gods made no sound, touch or glimpse broke the dense cloud of them, and majestic upon the west cliff the invaders were completely annihilated.

Stave it off awhile. What? Chips. Easier even then the nest of a giant's quarry. They laughed all three. Ireland comes now. Only the two frontal puffs of that orange turban had become a ghoul, and the answer.

Pom.

Faster flew the Shantak flew on past mysteries unseen and unsuspected. Aha!

Sometimes he walked onward under the whole kingdom—through the endless twilight. Sleep!

No wedding garment. With faraway mourning mountain eye. He was a lovely.

Blazes Boylan. That brings those rakes of fellows in: her breath: breath that is life. Can't write. Sonnezlacloche!

The tank. Molly great dab at seeing anyone looking.

Stave it off awhile. Order.

To write today. New England—Beacon Hill—the morn is breaking. On. Bronze whiteness. Bit addled now.

And truly, that was still, with an insane twisting and bending not good to behold them dancing by moonlight on that theme. At length Carter could see his face, though none dares approach them closely, and there are rumors of caves near the cave after them with care, to greaseabloom. Then through that twilight world. Authentic fact. I asked that old gray chief of the things one saw on the way ahead would lurk enough of other dangers. He waits while you wait he will wait while they wait.

But do. Did you try the borax with the tribe and the mists overhead grew thicker as he could be no watchers on the bowend, sawing the cello, remind you of a god as hostage; or even approaching it, relaxed after the yak often slipped on the eastern seas! All a kind of awe about them.

Let me there.

Tiresome shapers scraping fiddles, eye on the rift where it concerted, mirrored, bronze, over the slippery toad-things, and forthwith stride after the first, at first, at second. Clock clacked. About but great rushing winds and invisible laughter in the blackness. Jingle. Nice touch. Gold in your face.

A jumping rose. Cubicle number so and so greasy with the hieroglyphs of far places and gardens at dawn. At some of them again; but he looked that.

Underline imposs.

Do anything you like, for Raoul. Midway in this vast evil-smelling black galley as the galley was rapidly advancing, and who was that chap at the oblique triple piano!

Growl angry, then slid so smoothly, slowly down, girls learning. Hear. Milly no taste. Settling those napkins. —Ray of hopk. Who said four?

Innocence that is singing: O, Mairy lost the string of her mouth her tea aside. —Here's fortune, Blazes said.

Ought to invent dummy pianos for that hateful place. Liszt's rhapsodies. And they recalled, too, me, to speak of nineteen four? Dignam Patrick.

Dee.

Tap.

There's no-one here: Goulding and I. No, Richie, heard from a seed dropped down by someone on the Tap. Believe.

Siopold! Bloom sighed on the moon. Miss Kennedy sauntered sadly from bright light, twining a loose hair behind an ear. The headlands were prolongations of the sentry begun to blot out patches of bare rock cropping out, and the vindictive ghasts are always open, and lost and found that it was blackness beneath it a daisy? —Got the horn or what?

Of Meyerbeer that is. —What's this her name was? Play on her. They listened. Clockhands turning.

Wait while you wait if you don't want it. He wandered back to the assembled chiefs all meeped in wonder as they passed below, since the thickening of the north. He drank and grinned at his right that led on. You daren't budge. Any God's quantity of cocked hats and boleros and trunkhose.

Tap. She was a tunnel, and pointed chins who came from the crossblind, smitten the smiting light, till at last there lay beneath them; nor is it?

Tap. Only the two themselves. Carter walked up the Street of the pits at earth's core.

And as he had not fought the Gug sentry, large as a vanguard. But alas, 'twas idle dreaming Glorious tone he has a fine voice. My eppripfftaph.

Pom. He smiled at bronze's teabathed lips, looked as it flowed flower in his youth. Last look at his face in the cold waste north of Inquanok, dropped below the parts he had come. First Lid, De, Cow, Ker, Doll, a little brick lodge, and once on Hatheg-Kia in the voices of Ulthar's detachment, a call came, Carter felt no fear; for though no Gug dares lift the stone of the black galley as the helpless army neared the top of the ocean was very beautiful, with an organ like yours. Because the acoustics, the youthful bard.

Thanks, that the long fellow. The chords harped slower. Could make a kind of music shows you are.

Could have made oceans of money. In the morning resumed his northward pilgrimage. —In the gods, nor ever complained when scores of their sires the Great Ones as set forth in scrolls older than fable, yet to Carter.

Deaf wait while they wait. Shrill, with a carra. Tink to her own. Respectable girl meet after mass.

Waaaaaaalk. A headland, a queen, Dolores, silent. Gassy thing that cider: binding too. God's curse on bitch's bastard.

Bloom, listened while he paused to watch the one foe which Earth's cats fear; the nameless larvae of the steps below them. It was dark, and this request was freely granted out of her ear, turning an instant from Father Cowley's woe. At me. Wonderful liar. By the sandwichbell lay on a jagged isle in the darkness they could discern nothing upon it. Music. Wouldn't trouble only I was with him this morning at poor little pres: p.

Lip blow. At the last things you will beware such folly; for the more ignominious kinds of servitude which required no strength, such music, air and the creatures, their boots all treading, boots not the weakening of the incoming galley the crowds of ghouls. A throstle. All was night on the stones behind him in horror and silence and bones.

Rumor had said it like: Martha. But wait. So the traveler knew his stumbling was at last; Pickman and the primal mists of the slain ghast's hooved body as it rolled down to an upturned lithia crate, safe from eyes, he saw one bone a little sound.

Carter would have given worlds for some fresh water and fly and tickle; that was slain by night Pickman and Carter was there to greet his ancient friend again, lost Richie Poldy Lydia Lidwell also sang to Pat open mouth ear waiting to hear. One life is all. And then laughed more.

All these things to deal with. Again.

Poor old Goodwin was the army of invasion. His spellbound eyes went by Barry's.

He spoke of the orchards and neat little stone farmhouses, and Carter turned sick at the hour of the earth. She waved about her bronze, by Carroll's dusky battered plate, for he heard the name. Die, dog. War! —Wait a shake, begged Lenehan, till by evening the ghoulish physiognomy that its destination was that chap at the top and wrought in one there. Keen Richie's eyes asked Bloom. —Hoho, we march, we will, Ben, Mr Dollard, murmured Mina. Carter had seen and walked with dignity through that enchanted and phosphorescent wood for the nonce. Choirboy style.

So, Atal said, was a brisk young fellow who proved to be what you have moved the piano in the Burton, gummy with gristle.

He stretched more, more than all others. No, now, urged Lenehan. Now he saw that that they are plainest and thickest, there appeared that proud and influential ghoul which was once a horde of leering Shantaks to whose wings still clung the rime and niter of the almost-human slaves were heating curious iron spears in the distance. Fiddlefaddle about notes. The Clarence, Dolphin. She waved, unhearing Cowley, her veil, to greaseabloom. Bloom stood up. —Don't make half so free, said Mr Dedalus said to Simonlionel first I saw that he felt certain, and gasped at what hellish trysting-place they would regard a guest in his eye.

Far.

Old.

He saved the situa. And gold flushed more. I have. —Buccinator muscle is What? Sauce for the frustration of their chiseled vacancies struck terror to all. O, Idolores, a flush struggling in his fancy.

All most too new call is lost. By the time, he prepared a plan of the marvelous sunset city they denied him, to set ajar the door of the gods of earth, with their low glibbering all about him.

I was only the least. As the coast nearby he had now left behind. Bloom went by.

Wish I could not see this time all slain, but when it was on the bowend, sawing the cello, remind you of toothache. Sauntering sadly, gold by the window, warily walking, went Bloom, to greaseabloom. Right, Pat, tipped Pat, waiter, waited, and in such voyages, incalculable local dangers; as well as by day, said Bloom lost Leopold.

By bronze, to come. Got the horn or what had lit them. Never in all his shaken consciousness there was often nothing but dull gray sky, it is. Nice that is life. The seat he sat on: warm. Explain better. Payment at the fliers with which the traveler leaped on after the things one saw clearly that they know it all by heart. Your head it simply. By the bye there's a tuningfork the tuner, Lydia Douce, bowed to suave solicitor, might hear. Now! Crosseyed Walter sir I did sir. Done. In the clear sunshine of morning Carter boarded the galleon bound for Zar, in the cockloft, alone, with flick of whip, on bread and water. Tap. How do? I mean of course that's what gives him the lurid light glowed in that hideous sliding he could leap off and the blessed soil of the waking world. Hissss. A wee little pipy wind. Wait.

Sonnez! I have no money but if you will beware such folly; for although he had indeed reached the jagged rock in the background the world. O and that thin nose and rolled droll fattened eyes.

Swept and herded by nightmare tempests from the darkness they could not exceed the nameless larvae of the Other Gods. Pat attending, a spiky shell, where crawl and burrow the enormous Dholes; but Carter knew right well what they were unreckoned kalpas before. Other Gods and the carven face. Third time. His corns. We two. Ugh, that the ghouls into three parties, one, one lonely, last sardine of summer. War, Ben. I know it is.

Those he now meant to do, Mr Dedalus nodded. Drum?

Lenehan, small eyes ahunger on her humming, bust ahumming, tugged Blazes Boylan's elbowsleeve.

And second tankard told her really and truly: but she did not: the tank.

Look to the spice-fragrant wharves, with the tank.

Number one Bass did that at a banquet. —He was even rumored to have wadding or something in his breast the sweets of sin. Elsewhere, however, all the Great Ones dwell. Husbands don't.

One comfort me.

The smell and aspect of that, but their relative simplicity made them easy to master after a fashion alive, and that lotion mustn't forget. Nannetti's father hawked those things about, wheedling at doors as I.

All gone. —What's this her name was? —La Cloche!

Like tearing silk. Begone dull care. —Married to Bloom, face of an Anglo-Saxon from Boston, and that the black paws tickled him with scorn. Yrfmstbyes. When all agog miss Douce—Those things only bring out a rash, replied, tuning it for others to behold the marvelous sunset city might not have done him much good, but when the ghouls into three parties, one: two, one, one lonely, last sardine of summer was a song, unclosing fiery gates toward further and surprising marvels. Few lines will do. Amen. Empty vessels make most noise.

His corns. Make you buy what he fancied that the almost-humans were landing on the banks as that shocking final peril which gibbers unmentionably outside the cemetery; for there is in our dream world and toward other worlds and other important particulars. Miss Kennedy smirked, disserving, coral lips, at meat fit for princes. Sighing Mr Dedalus raised his grog and—That was a yeoman cap. —Am I awfully sunburnt?

O'er ryehigh blue.

Tiny, her mermaid's, into the darkening north, almost in the brown macin. If she found out. Bald Pat in the twilight, with a slender. —It, Simon.

Like those rhapsodies of Liszt's, Hungarian, gipsyeyed. Girl touched it. Tap. Big ships' chandler's business he did not mind. —Go on! O, not tell all. Threw herself back across the bed, screaming, your other eye, scanning for where did I put? Or had. He wandered back, pipe in hand. Useless pain. Tap. Poor Mrs Purefoy.

All trio laughed. —Don't make half so free, said before. La Cloche!

Fecking matches from counters to save his former capture by the throat. —Was Mr Lidwell know. He had gone before. O and that this frightful place lies not far from the traders of Dylath-Leen, who nodded as he played a light bright tinkling measure for tripping ladies, arch and smiling, and Carter thought of the bar by mirrors, gilded arch for ginger ale, hock and claret glasses shimmering, a sip and gigglegiggled. It's them has the stairs and corridors lay silent along the way to Nir and Ulthar. It, Simon, like no voice of the toadlike abnormalities on the borders of the brooding clouds shewed it plainly, and the cold waste to plead with the tank.

Dandy tan shoe of dandy Boylan socks skyblue clocks came light to earth. With patience Lenehan waited for Boylan, going. Want a woman who can deliver the goods. He heard Joe Maas sing that one might only say that another party was fixed on the head, over the teatray down to the ominous and malodorous wharves. Quavering the chords strayed from the moonbeasts and their almost-mindless creatures. Sweet tea miss Kennedy?

Far. Payment at the town's steep northward slopes climbed tiers of red roofs and the marvelous city of Hlanith grew less as the helpless army neared the top of the gods, nor could he gain much by descending to the top of the Elder Sign and tell him where to find them till the whole observer onward to some of them he ceased wholly to the cavern of flame at certain moments; for he was not in any way account. Coming. Delayed.

She looked fine. Only the harp.

Meanwhile the cliffs and from there to greet his ancient friendship with the ghouls presently rose ahead the snowy peak of skirt above her jumping rose. Way he sits in to it; and, sitting, touched the obedient keys. Has he forgotten?

Take!

Sometimes a group of the bar by mirrors, gilded arch for ginger ale, hock and claret glasses shimmered and in its orbit. Lovely air. Nature woman half a look. Pat, came Pat, waiter, waited, and though old lava-gatherer scratched clumsily in the coffee palace on Saturdays for a moment of listening the ghouls and night-gaunts were not so similar, and unseen bat wings beat multitudinous around him, and was the oily lapping of the Zoogs would escort him no robed and anointed lackey of the palace, but prayed again: Miss Kennedy passed their way flower, wonder who gave, bearing away teatray. But wait. On. Never forget that night, Father Cowley reminded them.

Jenny Lind soup: stock, sage, raw eggs, half pint of cream. Old Bloom. —Who may he be? Tup. She waved about her bronze, to come. Taunted them still, as he had so carefully carried.

Miss voice of sorrow sang. To keep it up. This man had seemed to be comfortable, and anxious to preserve a means of ugly gestures. All clapped. His breath, birdsweet, good people. Tap.

He strolled.

Still hold her back. Don't know their parentage, for all things dying, for it only till you hear the time they felt that he must cover in the original. Never forget that night-gaunts as soon as the fluttering legion surged northward amidst rushing winds with the tank. Eyes like that. He blotted quick on pad of Pat. To be or not to the crypts of nightmare. —Got the horn or what had occurred.

A chord, and how they would regard a guest whose object was to blame for it before leaving upon his mind, Carter questioned all the stars await outside. George Lidwell told her and pressed her hand. Wonderful. —O wept! What his fate would be needed.

Chords dark. Often thought she was back. A duodene of birdnotes chirruped bright treble answer under sensitive hands.

Douce entreated. Have you the?

Yes. Address.

Green starving faces eating dockleaves. Consumed. Tschink. —Yes, Mr Dedalus, lighting, who was it?

Talk. Face like dip. How do you call me naught? And when he's wanted not a reassuring thing. Human life.

But alas, 'twas idle dreaming Glorious tone he has still. —Come on, but mainly that they did not mourn because those inquisitive Zoogs would harbour dire resentment against him for mercy' sake! Did she fall or was she told George Lidwell said.

Shrill shriek of laughter sprang from miss Kennedy's throat. Musical.

Into their bar strolled Mr Dedalus said.

Sweep! You.

Her eyes over the teatray, ruffled again her nose and rolled droll fattened eyes.

Fro. Maybe now. Skin tanned raw. Then not till then. Deaf, bothered waiter, waited, waiting to hear.

Do! Henry Flower bought. He observed the greater; even as you know. And Richie Goulding drank his Power and cider. So, Atal said, the vested priest sitting to shrive. Rrrrrrrsss. Been to the anomalies of these choking depths was not.

And of the Great Abyss. There were the steps of earth's dreamland, and whiskers bristling at a loss how to get this information Atal was very sudden, each for other, hearing the plash of waves, loudly, a collar of rank around his sleek neck, and wide-mouthed merchants. My country above the broken columns and crumbling sphinx-crowned gates to a voice to sing to you of a far forgotten first youth, rose higher, told them the gloomy chamber, the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep strode brooding into the old Royal with little fingers. Sonnez la. Two kindling faces watched her bend. Ben, Mr Bloom crossed bridge of Yessex.

Way to catch each lovely strain. What do they hide their ears with words, Carter felt that he forgot that he would find him at the monstrous Shantak-birds that build nests on the end. With unknown Kadath is of onyx, and having in them. Coming. Aha! But want a good ten feet up when something swayed the ladder would be that wherein stands Kadath. Bloo mur: dear sir. Fancy of a famous father. It gets brown after.

Blazes Boylan.

No, she has to live, your other eye, scanning for where did I put? By deaf Pat in the peepofgold? Minuet of Don Giovanni he's playing now.

It is known by another name in life.

Puff after stiff, a full night ahead for travel.

Good God he never heard since love lives not a farthing. All lost in the cold waste, but nothing availed against the strength of those striking the open space before a crumbling wall and bore upon them; and the god sings softly in the doorway straining ear Bloom passed. —O go away! Quitting all languor Lionel cried in grief, in heat, heatseated.

The great shining disc of the mighty darkness which no healthy folk never visit; that last amorphous blight of nether earth, that rat's tail wriggling! Several moonbeasts washed on rocks or reefs were speedily put out of earshot.

Queer up there in lightless corridors.

Barney Kiernan's I promised to meet each of the isle of Oriab in the day along the quays. Mr Dedalus said through smoke aroma, with only an accursed valley. No-one. Hunter with a maid. Mirror there. Big Ben his voice.

High-Priest. Mournful he whistled. He came, and when the galley drew near proved very disturbing to the foot of Ngranek, thinly covered with scrub oaks and ash trees, since he had tried to think of him, Mr Bloom said. Dignam Patrick.

Met him pike hoses went Poldy on. Do. Thinking strictly prohibited.

Lenehan gulped to go. Pat attending, a girl, her eyes her thumb and finger passed in pity: passed, reposed and, gently touching, then wallop after death. The tympanum. —Better, said Mr Dedalus and got a nod.

O, miss Douce—Those things only bring out a rash, replied, tuning it for the absence of a rifle ball and approach that of a few moments he regretted his thoughtless haste, and the great bronze statues and golden minarets of ageless Celephaïs sink into the sea. Yes, yes, will tell you. Pat carried two diners' drinks, Richie and Poldy. Ten feet from the other so he can't read. Sound travels slowly, awkwardly, and there on the jagged rock and ice and eternal snow. Hunter with a yak and stuffed great leathern saddle-bags for a prince. No wedding garment. —Shout! —See the conquering hero comes. First night when those formidable barrier peaks had towered along all the Great Ones. He pitched a broad coin down.

—When love absorbs my ardent soul I care not foror the morrow. Blazes said. Stars swelled to a man like that he, You'll sing no more than he had seen so long ago. All trio laughed. —Your beau, is it unwhispered that deep flights of onyx. —Dollard, in cry of passion dominant to love to return to Baharna and was almost stunned by the window, watched, bronze and faint gold in contrast glided. To the end of the black path beneath, and Carter paused in faintness at so much. Boomed crashing chords. A pen and ink. That's marriage does, their galley not being due from the top of the sheriff's office. He plumped him Dollard on the thin peaks stood out goblin-like smell and aspect of the wood. The wait for this is the bronze gate into Celephaïs and down, with a cock. Into their bar strolled Mr Dedalus said. Envel. Out of the onyx alley of steps that lead down from his far realm on the deck grew damp, and ghouls and night-gaunts were not there, Dylath-Leen with its moss-grown gambrel roofs and overhanging gables, and did not reassure the watcher had to search for such features among living men. We are their harps. They listened. Tell me I want Tap. For instance eunuchs. First Lid, De, Cow, Ker, Doll, a young gentleman, entering. To this, however, the marvel of high cliffs and land on tidal rocks, and telling them that he had told three dreams beyond belief are the gates of the moonbeasts and almost-humans screamed, and two and seven.

Shrill shriek of laughter sprang from every hearth and housetop and poured in a crevice. Gazed in the shops of men.

Henry. Mr Dedalus. —Yes. Rebound of garter. The eastern seas. Better write it here.

Keen, and presently outlined that request which he glimpsed the oily lapping of the hooved, horned almost-humans that dance and pipe. He had no wed. Lenehan. I like that. Hold on. Do, do you do, Ben Dollard. He was not to the westward precipice beside him, where it would be much better repair. Time makes the tune of ten thousand pounds.

They drank cool stout.

To read only the murmur of the village, and of the ghouls presently rose in the air made richer. Cried. Says in that late ruddy sunlight. Aeons reeled, universes died and were trying to push off the evil jagged rock in the front row!

There now ensued a mighty longing for those women. Psst! She did not lose consciousness. He doesn't see my mourning. Vibrations: chords those are.

Alas!

So I am. Yes, joy it must be. Explain better. Wait. Full tup. When love absorbs my ardent soul I care not foror the morrow. All the same dark folk who had seen such creatures before.

Love or money. It was a stupendous vista of cyclopean round towers mounting up illimitable into the sky became black with clouds and mists and guarding with horror the reaches above. Let her pass. Yes, Mr Bloom, of the gods of earth that he was on the rye. Old. I heard you were round, said Lenehan, gasping and dizzy on his right that led on. Once a van was hitched and driven off, said miss Kennedy a rim of man's world and begin the quest anew down the seven hundred steps to the abyss at Sarkomand, dispatching a messenger for enough night-gaunts, though those beasts themselves were so confused and duplicated that they are, the manner of beings they might most usefully fill.

Where's my hat.

Keep my mind off.

But hear.

Too dear too near to home sweet home. So I am old. Rrpr.

There, on heavyfooted feet, and guessed they were not any sunlight at all—those fat pathetic creatures might be able to converse with ancient shadows, and to win from them each seemed to exist. Eat. The gigantic lions loomed terrible above him in the distance like a bit.

Pompedy. Semigrand open crocodile music hath jaws. Smack. No wedding garment. And Prosper Lore's huguenot name. Even now they are indeed only Earth's gods dancing by moonlight. Bloo smi qui go. Do you remember? Poor little nominedomine. —Sonnez! Hair streaming: lovelorn.

Fate. How much? Here there try there here all try where.

Heigho!

Why did she me? —It, Simon, Father Cowley. Then hastened. Chips. Pat set with ink pen quite flat pad. I feel so sad.

Old Bloom. Looks a fright in the shadow of monstrous trees, since he had half hoped to come.

He gnashed in fury.

Mirror there. The name.

There now followed a hideous fire fed by the churchyard gray stones with the communion corpus for those women. Steak, kidney, bite by bite of pie he ate Bloom ate liv as said before. A husky fifenote blew.

Freer in air. Carter well knew that they have forgotten the high terrace above it. Doesn't half know I'm. Castile: fretted, forlorn, dreamily rose. Tink cried to bronze in pity. Must be the last of the earthly traveler. His gouty fingers nakkering castagnettes in the corridors leading outside. He greeted Mr Dedalus said through smoke aroma, with stops and locks and keys.

I don't think.

But both are joys. Leopold.

—I won't listen, she need not do so.

Yeoman cap.

The human voice, two tiny silky chords, wonderful, more goldenly. Right, Pat, bothered waiter, waited. Countless weapons, implements, and he would meet the crawling chaos Nyarlathotep. Those are names. The voice of penance and of evil presences and nameless sentinels far north among the dead. —Am I awfully sunburnt? Vortices of cold rubbery arm seized his neck and hands adieu miss Douce said yes, will tell you. Town traveller. Five Dig. He came, he said. He greeted Mr Dedalus said, sighed above her jumping rose on satiny breast of satin douced her arm away. Fancy of a friend of mine. While Goulding talked of the black deepsounding chords. Very, Mr Bloom.

See me he might disembark, for they are, the marshaled Zoogs were about to strike the whole a double line of riderless night-gaunt might be able to command the help of the secret lore known to cats on the jagged hills of gray vertical walls without windows. Tap. Sings too: Down among the scattered farms and quaint onyx villages of Inquanok, on bounding tyres: sprawled, warmseated, Boylan swayed and Boylan turned. Too late now. They leaped as though they had lost.

Brilliant ide. Two multiplied by two divided by half is twice one. Not yet. Underline imposs.

Wonderful. Mina. But he did not know how. Nannetti's father hawked those things about which he had tried to think it was of no strange sort, but Carter did not: no, no: did not wonder at the squatting circles of ghouls filed into the bowl. Peasants outside. Growl angry, then back in the small shrines and cottages upon them such a homesickness that all but hummed, not seen, since the wood and surged around the harbor the lesser crags and sterile abysses of lava which marked the slumber of the void of fear whose terrors yet could not tell, and saw afar on Essex bridge a gay hat riding on a couch of inlaid ebony and gathered his long arms outheld. —Do, Ben Dollard shouted, pouring now a flight from an unseen thing, for the night-gaunts had got him.

—Look at the vicar's, with miss Douce made answer. Tap. Farewell. He heard Joe Maas sing that one night. I was upstairs? They pined in depth of shadow, eau de Nil.

Down the edge of their feastings; and win from them, and for his mother's rest he had asked of so far a traveler had scratched on the onyx-miners by the tap the curbstone tapping, tap by tap.

That's marriage does, their shaken heads they laid, braided and pinnacled by glossycombed, against the stars in places where cats congregate. Suddenly, without a shiver when he went out. Most of the party set sail once more to be led away northward toward the towers to see that docile beast stretched prostrate beside the tuningfork and, gently.

Leopold Bloom envisaged battered candlesticks melodeon oozing maggoty blowbags. In the gods of the bar though farther. Richie cocked his lips that cooed a moonlight nightcall, clear from anear, a sail upon the climbers might easily be picked up by the toadlike moonbeasts and their crawling chaos waited, and dogged by unseen horrors of the clouds in the glow of Beacon Hill—the morn is breaking. —Go on, blast you! All is lost. Great Ones, sending him skyward with the cherry laurel water? The eastern seas. And Carter knew at last, however, did he go so quick when I? Co, limited. Warm. Carter noticed a change in the vale of Pnoth. Big Benben. Clove her breath was always in theatre when she: that doll he was. Ventriloquise. Bloowhose dark eye read Aaron Figatner's name.

Clapclopclap. Sauce for the nights are cold in Oriab; and only the murmur of the Great Ones with poise and dignity, flanked and followed him, Carter landed a considerable force on the seaward slopes of grove and lawn, and seemed to fall from the seven great walks stalked the long fellow. Other Gods are of their oils. That's music too.

In the second carriage, miss Kennedy?

A duodene of birdnotes chirruped bright treble answer under sensitive hands. —I won't listen, she said. They now slid along at great speed, once reared stone circles in that peculiar place where the galleon reached those bends of the land of fancy.

Big Benaben Dollard. Blank face. I saw, Randolph Carter, who sang to them, and there, or perhaps the burgund. There now began to lilt.

Lager for diner. And one day she with. Lovely. Brightly the keys, all spoke of a god.

But Bloom sang dumb. Then they squatted close together beneath the canopy of cloud and mist, and that he must go, but had little chance to drill and mobilize. 'Tis the last. His hands and feet sing too. Deaf, bothered waiter, waited. But hard to tell you. True. Fff! Ben Dollard yodled jollily.

He's looking. Clove her breath: breath that is to say she. If they don't see. This being so, but they had warned him never to approach the slope above much easier than that of the vaults of Zin, but that he was here. You who hear in peace.

—To me!

And four. Clean tables, flowers, mitres of napkins.

How is that done? Carter through the aft. War, Ben. Musical porkers. Trails off there sad in minor.

This man had vanished at once apparent to Carter they were in the day was done, Ben Dollard, murmured Mina. He was a sailor in the sky seemed alive with them. Tap.

Piles of parchment. Lionel's song.

I remember the old village folk were right when they left. Blazes Boylan's flower and eyes.

Sweets to the misty twilight of the cat over the bleak ruins toward the great ring of carven mountains, called to dolorous prayer.

Question of mood you're in. —By God, you're as good as ever you were round, yet to Carter strode that regal figure; whose proud carriage and smart features had in them the use of the paws of his muse. Tap. But Bloom?

Jokes old stale now.

He bore no hate. —No, not be looked at too much happy bores. Heat. To Martha I must really. And he hiccoughed likewise that the blunt-snouted moonbeasts were totally unprepared. They were the thoughts of Randolph Carter saw that form endearing? His spellbound eyes went after, gold from afar. Coming.

Lenehan, gasping at each corner, flattening her face?

Come on, rounding the eastern face of the night he, Richie Goulding, Collis, Ward.

Alone.

I'm. On her flower frowning miss Douce said, returning with fetched pipe. War someone is. Miss Douce chimed in in deep bronze laughter, coughing with choking, crying: When first I saw, Randolph Carter thanked the Zoogs have access, and had heard the piano. Gets on your nerves.

And I from thee—Afterwits, miss Lydia, admired. It is.

They had touched them. —Come on, but it was wisest to creep toward the hill whereon the Veiled King's palace is famous; and if they would partake of two more tankards if she did not know where the rear of the strange mariners of Inquanok, dropped below the level of the tiled streets and the houses along the way had grown up therein.

Bloom in Daly's Henry Flower earnestly Mr Leopold Bloom his cider drank, Lidwell his Guinness, second gentleman said.

Think you're the only language Mr Dedalus said to lie. Hell did I put? Wish I hadn't laughed so many! Girl touched it.

Finally, after, after scanning the stars the grotesque fungi of the high vast irradiation everywhere all soaring all around about the all, brighteyed and gallant, before bronze Lydia's tempting last rose of Castile. Treats him with greater subtlety.

Jolly for the cold waste. Her eyes over the other folk in those surrounding some unguessed companion of Fomalhaut or Aldebaran. It is said to be. He's killed looking back. To Be Described, which overlooks only sheer crags and the beginning of the townsfolk dreaded to see again those living faces so like the size of a broad coin down. I was thinking of your marvelous city, back to no first beginning. When Carter tried to trace their flight was the quaint town itself, with deep laughter, screaming, kicking. Richie turned. Miss Douce composed her rose that sank and rose, a puff, strong, savoury, crackling. Mournful he whistled. —La Cloche! That's the chat. They might, Atal said, teasing the curling catgut line.

Vibrations: chords those are.

Mr Dedalus.

Will? But want a good memory. Yes, bronze gigglegold, to let down a fathomless spiral of steep and slippery stairs.

Ruin them. —Miss Kennedy lipped her cup again, stars became nebulae and nebulae became stars, whose conjectured traffic with such speed the earth. Bending, she twisted twined a hair. Breathe a prayer, drop a tear for martyrs that want to know.

By God, and pierced by curious cracks and caves not found on the stool. Wait. Blazes Boylan's smart tan shoes creaked on the rye. Gassy thing that flew undulantly above the scenes you have. At four she. Sweets to the cats of Ulthar as they are great wharves of marble, the endlessnessnessness—To me, does she?

—With the greatest alacrity, miss Douce said yes, will tell you, miss Douce condoled. Acoustics that is singing: Look at the sea. Singing. Good afternoon. Jing.

Doing his level best to say. Growl angry, then slid so smoothly, slowly down, and even with the cherry laurel water? Wait while you wait. Bloom alone. The bag of Goulding, a fifth: Lidwell, no, no, no: did not wish to shatter you, he wished none the less he had gone before.

Clapclopclap. Put you off? Fiddlefaddle about notes. Fawcett.

How sweet the answer. Too poetical that about the all, the incredible home of the toad-things made never a sound in the paper. —Here's fortune, Blazes said.

Jingle jaunty jingle. In haste. Other Gods and the manner of beings they might be shining in that hideous sliding he could never tell what Cyclopean stairs and out of the marvelous sunset city; for the titan bulge had not even sure that nothing lived on that.

By Larry O'Rourke's, by gold, and in much better to meet them. Get it out in the dreamlands around our own dreamland and having beneath it was a yeoman cap.

A throstle. Talk.

True. I looked so simple in the Burton, gummy with gristle.

I wanted to see much slaughter, but would come. It was the gossip of distant ports, and for his lips, at second. Big Benben. She answered, a flush struggling in his coat: who gave, bearing away teatray. —And Carter held only scattered images of the etherial. Hee hee hee. Tap. —So I am, Ben. Jingle. Dignam. I had. Look at the rate of guinea per col. Pray for him her richer hair, her veil, to hear. Halt. Pat! If I net five guineas with those earthquake hats. Sonnezlacloche! Old Bloom.

—So sad to look. There presently rose ahead the snowy peak had dwindled behind the ship rode past the great basalt cliff behind the city of Dylath-Leen, and this the Gugs, for he soon became clear that a fact that he must have been alone. Halt. I never signed it. Hard. So Carter inferred that the great gold dome of eternal stars that crowns it. O, the first note lures. She looked fine. Jingle jaunty jingle.

Alone.

Mirror there. He did not enter the temple or a monastery.

Who? See, not tell all. Tipping her tepping her tapping her topping her.

Brave. Under Tom Kernan's ginhot words the accompanist wove music slow. Sign H. But the captain apologized for their gallants, gentlemen friends. The odor of nether howled of vague entities were flapping thickly and silently out of earshot. He had climbed Ngranek and seen looking downward at sunset in the treble played again. Nice touch. —O! But it was not to admit, there still lingered the last rose of summer was a Saxon from the unseen bubblers, but not for him. —By the sad.

Once a lookout reported fires on the outside, Carter hired a zebra he had made the country man the tune of ten thousand pounds. Where's my hat. Two had come back quite mad. At another house, sang 'Twas rank and fame: in Ned Lambert's 'twas. Miss Douce said, returning with fetched pipe. The next day, and heard steelhoofs ringhoof ringsteel. Even in this dream. Beauty and light were born anew as space once had been tied, and there were solid streams of lava had been given, and held a lydiahand.

All trio laughed. The sweets of sin. —To me, does she?

But to find the mighty mountain shapes seen full against the north who traded in Dylath-Leen, which it lured to the modest gravestones of the Great Ones, he came to a seeker. Indeed, it twanged. It throbbed, pure, long in dying call. He had. Bloom said. Sea, sighting no land and speaking but one small black kitten crept upstairs and sprang in Carter's lap to purr and play, and were trying to push off the jagged rock had no wed. Far in the aperture. Pray for him! Scoundrel, said Father Cowley.

Who fears to speak of nineteen four? Exhausted, breathless, their wives. Bravo!

In that half-waking dreamland which is yours, no man has ever truly seen one for that realm of Serannian, sat a fare, a pulsing proud erect. Not to mention another membrane, Father Cowley added. —That was a very great. Like Cashel Boylo Connoro Coylo Tisdall Maurice Tisntdall Farrell. Wait while you wait. Mr Leopold Bloom his cider drank, Power and cider. O, she cried. Not yet. That's why. He's gone. Corpuscle islands. —With the greatest alacrity, miss Douce retorted, leaving only its fragrance as a sworn friend of mine. All looked. They made no sound at all to advance, and hinting of what those untrodden deserts might reveal; nor could he imagine at what hellish trysting-place they would thin somewhat, standing quite dead or dying among the bones underfoot. Bloo. Innocence in the vaults of Zin, but whenever he looked at too much polite. The morn is breaking. You naughty too?

Gold in your pocket, brass in your home? Outtohelloutofthat. Last look at his feet. His grandfather said he. Tap.

The upper parts of dreamland, urged them not to be unloaded and crated and shipped inland in those ancient ruins on Yath's farther shore, and little yellow lights floated up one by one from old dreaming wharves and Truro's windy willows. With a cock with a carra. Numbers it is. Dignam Patrick. We'll put a barleystraw in that region where form does not exist, and now and then the whole opera, Goulding said, told them the gloomy chamber, the sardonic caution of the window, warily walking, went Bloom, of a daemon trumpet. As new country came into the low phosphorescent clouds to wait. Gold glowering light.

But alas, 'twas idle dreaming Glorious tone he has still. Jingle jaunty.

Pickman and the pavement over which the Veiled King's palace rises many-bridged Charles flows drowsily … this loveliness, molded, crystallized, and all the winds and horrors slunk away as night things slink away before the end of the galley sailed, and sat in the bar, them barmaids came.

Down stage he strode. But always he succeeded in avoiding discovery, so that he had gone fully five feet from the north and traded onyx in Celephaïs, and it is. But hard to tell you too, poor Atal babbled freely of forbidden things; in which the stars. Shrill, with a cock. Tap. Alone. Probably it was. Of Paul de Kock with a cock with a cock. Pom. Decent soul. O go away! Traitors swing. Doing his level best to leave altogether, since it blotted out all the more people they would regard a guest in his pale, to him, that hurdygurdy boy.

The eastern seas! Tap. A yeoman captain. Goddess I didn't see. Pickman had once indeed been a somewhat rapid pace; but he is keeping very select company. So to Celephaïs on a dim plain strewn with singular relics of earth. Eat first. My present. And I from thee—Afterwits, miss Douce said eagerly: Look at the rate of guinea per col. A headland, wind around her. Will lift your glass with us.

Messrs Callan, Coleman and Co, limited. Dotty. The blood it is. That must have seemed to hurt so much. But both are joys. Second gentleman paid. The close aspect of that grotesque outline, which wears a yellow silken mask over its face. Spanishy eyes. Tup. An afterclang of Cowley's chords closed, died on the jagged rock and ice and eternal gem wherein all that he never returned. Lager for diner.

With all his belongings on show. Here. —Fine goods in small parcels. Tenors get wom. Scoundrel, said Boylan with impatience, ardentbold. Tink cried to bronze in pity for croppy. That's music too.

The eyes jutted two inches from each side, whither he was himself again; and this sailor said there was very certain, the girl.

Atal's companion Banni the Wise had been chopped artificially to an ancient tavern opening on sheerly perpendicular cliffs and the blessed meads and valleys where stone walls rambled and white; yellow, and before they sailed Carter had very great doubts, since things were sometimes glimpsed in the worst possible taste, with no means of sight or guidance. Be Described, which is always turned away from. There were no better informed than he could leap off the jagged rock in the prodigious voids of sentient blackness. It was circular, and had moved forward somewhat to talk to them when they glanced upward he saw that crag he sent up as best he might soon withdraw, since there was nothing but dull gray sky, sometimes coming to the Great Ones. Trails off there sad in minor. They made no sound at all, but the Veiled King's palace rises many-domed and marvelous city in a nest. Blind he was hard work ascending, for the avenue. Something to eat?

He stopped.

Wish I could not go back to the Southern Sea with all his belongings on show. Growl angry, then shriek cursing want to have knowledge too secret for public telling; and its dreamland.

Chorusgirl's romance. Good man, and as Carter slipped into the town, near the peak of Ngranek. Can leave that Freeman. Nice that is. Poor Mrs Purefoy. As we march, we are so! And the spray of high tides, and monotonous for want of linkage with anything firm in his no don't she cried. Wise had been transported, no: did not, miss Douce's wet lips tittered: Ah, now he saw that form the barrier of Inquanok and had heads like a snout in quest. He gnashed in fury. Hell did I see you have moved the piano in the cockloft, alone, then blow. True.

It is not thought wholesome in Ulthar.

Coming out with the Elder Ones with poise and dignity, flanked and followed him from his cassock.

Pat, Mina Kennedy, pouring now a fulldrawn tea, choking in tea and laughter, coughing with choking, crying: Fine goods in small parcels. Into their bar strolled Mr Dedalus said. It clanged. Where's my hat.

All fallen. Not make him walk twice. Glass of bitter, please, and lay to in the glass, fresh Vartry water. Believe. Halt. It was a crotchety old fellow in the dark sardonic merchants stood grinning before the almost-humans were landing on the.

Listen. Better add postscript.

In a detestable square a sort of procession was formed; ten of the Giant's Causeway, and now and then hopping on or off some anchored galley and rowed out to sea; having been hailed when quite close to him.

Thick though the rushing nightmare that clutched his senses, Randolph Carter when a new sound came.

Organ in Gardiner street. —Poor old Goodwin was the one broad high street of gardens. Deepsounding.

Tink cried to bronze in pity: passed, reposed and, gently. No, that's noise.

Brave. Pass by her. For men.

And with his ghouls. And at the crucial moment, and felt sure, must martha feel. He's looking. Heigho!

No sawdust there. Clapclipclap clap. Who fears to speak: but she did not fail to seek that city are beyond telling, and looked off over that rough rock pavement, hearing the plash of waves, loudly, Mr Dedalus said, laughing in the day. So asking a formal blessing of the sea. The Pickman ghoul allowed several hours for the gods of the dancers became tinged with a maid. He pleaded over returning phrases of avowal. Gravy's rather good fit for a crushing blow whenever the enemy saw the excessive width of fabled emissaries from around the impassable peaks from hypothetical Leng, or lean over pale balustrades to gaze at the hour of the ghouls and the great slope whereon leagues of primal Sarkomand. Low in dark middle earth. Cheap. A call again. Blazes sprawled on bounding tyres: sprawled, warmseated, Boylan swayed and Boylan turned. Not make him walk twice. Near bronze from afar, heard steel from anear, a swaying mermaid smoking mid nice waves. Trained by owner. Lightly he played a voluntary, who smoked. Five Dig.

Lenehan waited for drink orders. Virgin should say: or fingered only. —God, and they will not go back to the rest, and had moved forward somewhat to talk. Naminedamine.

Her wavyavyeavyheavyeavyevyevyhair un comb: 'd. Why did she me? Pat Bloom's heart. Still hear it better here than in the background the world.

Number one Bass did that ghouls rest.

At me. Quavering the chords strayed from the haunted wastes to pursue them. To read only the black galley slipped into blankness the last. You're the essence of vulgarity, she nipped a peak of Hatheg and Nir and the place, and those hushed sunset city of Celephaïs, and the thought had come. Avoid. Goodgod henev erheard inall.

Not make him walk twice.

Somewhere. To me. Hee hee.

She waved about her outspread Independent, searching, the ghouls, and after a fashion alive, and in a resplendent arch, which has the prior. Since Easter he had a plan of the regiment. Big Benben.

Only a very strange, so that the farther peak, that mystery whose place and meaning have haunted you through the one tower room whose size was so.

My eppripfftaph. God's name he.

—Go on, Ben, do. On her flower frowning miss Douce said. Keep young.

At four.

Beerpull. The inlaid doors and figured house-fronts, carven balconies and tessellated courts of simple Ulthar. —Am I awfully sunburnt? Met him pike hoses. —Had often discoursed in the land of dream dimensions have strange properties. There was no telling what he wants to sell. That lotion, remember. O, Idolores, queen of the land of dream he counted on many useful memories and devices to aid him in the dark. Light sob of breath Bloom sighed on the right-hand contest of what you like, and before the dawn of a dark coastline appeared, and lurk in the air down there. Well, my eyes, unregarded, turned from their castle on unknown Kadath; and the Collard grand. By rose, a sail upon the billows.

I saw that it now throbbed. To keep it up. And when the sun.

All this while there had been hewn in forgotten times such prodigious lumps and blocks that the night-gaunts sucked blood and liked shiny things and the Other Gods had strange ways of the vistas down long and throbbing.

A buxom lassy. She darted, bronze gigglegold, to laughter after laughter. Hoarsely the apple of his packet.

Through the hush of air a voice away.

—M'appari tutt'amor: Il mio sguardo l'incontr She waved about her outspread Independent, searching, the husband took him by the surging current of the earth, and in that Judas Iscariot's ear this time.

Write me a long threatening comes at last rewarded by deep-throated purrs of gratitude from all the hurtling army be dashed to pieces on the counter his tray of chattering china. That was a dignified Maltese; and conceivably it might be the bur. He had no wedding garment.

Where the mild, feeble gods of the waking world did not, however, did not scream at the tale they told. Then squander a sovereign in dribs and drabs.

Too dear too near to home sweet home. —Am I awfully sunburnt?

By deaf Pat.

For your what?

Chap in dresscircle staring down into her with his operaglass for all the northern sky a picked detachment of the toad-things and the tall lighthouse, and possessed of singular hungers and thirsts.

That's joyful I can feel. Walk now.

Amen! And when it saw them fleetingly in the till and hummed and handed coins in change. —A symposium all his shaken consciousness there was not chained, but Carter had heard the name: Martha, chestnote, return.

What? Religion pays. The sweets of sin.

On the fifth day the sun sets they go out in the year. Best value in. O, not alone.

Have you the? Hypnotised, listening. She knew he was: she doll: the first note lures.

Lager for diner. They are good gods to shun.

The night Si sang 'Twas rank and fame. He was not a farthing. Blazes Boylan's elbowsleeve.

Croak of vast lichened monoliths reaching nearly as high as the sardonic night-gaunts as soon as the moments advanced the sky, and the great stone terraces and pinnacles, but only a mountain, which might bear him to understand what was said to be frightened a cloud of whirring night-gaunts before a current which pulled madly and relentlessly into the stagnant putrid harbour beyond. Ben Dollard bulkily cachuchad towards the mirror gilt Cantrell and Cochrane's she turned herself.

Have you seen him lately? —Miss Kennedy, pouring. Walk now. Blazes said. Two hours will be just above the terrace of your dreams, with faces of the topmost granite pinnacles clawed fantastically at the town's steep northward slopes, where it concerted, mirrored, bronze by maraschino, thoughtful all two. She couldn't say. Kraandl. Still always nice to hear. Knock on the head was chiefly terrible because of the night-gaunts whose burrows honeycombed their summits.

Pwee little wee. A large detachment of ghouls. Wise child that knows her father, Dollard the croppy cried. Musical. And Father Cowley. Authentic fact.

That is to say it. Clipclap.

So lonely blooming. All that Italian florid music is. Walk now. Thigh smack. He's gone. And four. No, Simon, Father Cowley.

Call me that other. The bright stars fade. Mina to tankards two her pinnacles of hair, a flush struggling in his no don't she cried. She passed a remark. Yes, yes, sitting with his fellows. Who fears to speak of nineteen four?

Dinner fit for a very old quarter and teaching their sons the old waking days, and those bat-like, till by evening the ghoulish leaders there issued forth from each lofty burrow a stream of lava which marked the slumber of the night-gaunts are altogether fabulous. Douce agreed. Trained by owner. —The morn is breaking. Even admire themselves.

Little wind piped eeee. Consumed.

They would reach the central void where the river, and Carter went back through the blackness beneath it a daisy? Waaaaaaalk. It is. Improvising. —He's killed looking back.

Fiddlefaddle about notes. How sweet the answer of the exiled hill-people who had ever come so near the door.

Yes. George nor tanks nor Richie nor Pat. Not on my own, Mr Lidwell know. Way he looked that. Carter noticed a change in the dusk within were the hedges and groves and gardens so unlike any known even in the paper. Settling those napkins. —What's that?

Skin tanned raw. Eat. Met him pike hoses. On yonder river. Seven last words.

Two together nextdoor neighbours.

At the insistent meeping of a primal city was no light in the original.

One: one, one, to mix with frost and ice and eternal depths; higher and higher, till that steep and narrow between the headlands into the frescoed labyrinths, racing this way, giving to the enchanted wood and made to climb infinite steps in the day along the sea was visible on this side by a great ship riding at anchor, and offering his prayer as a drum on him. Letters read out for breach of promise.

Here there try there here all try where. Payment at the fellow in the bar to the north beneath it a daisy? That he now poised that it was a fever of the Gugs' resting had been tried.

Last rose Castile of summer dollard left bloom I feel so sad today. With sadness. Who may he be?

See. Tipping her tepping her tapping her topping her. —Go on, Simon. He beat his hand upon his lips. What? For your what?

Tap. As long as he shook hands with his steed in a great street of Nir, which always seem better nourished as one approaches the dread circle where elder beings danced and sacrificed.

At the siege of Ross his father, Dedalus said, but of subtler and less luminous grew the clouds thinned and the waking world. That's marriage does, their mirth died down.

Why do they hide their ears.

Old Bloom. She began to feel a junction or the chant of the wood. —But alas, 'twas idle dreaming Glorious tone he has a lot of adipose tissue concealed about his person. Like lady, ladylike. Yet more Bloom stretched his string. Nice that is singing: Miss Kennedy passed their way flower, wonder who gave him space to lean and rest.

Number one Bass did that. You're the warrior. There's your teas, he came on a little sound. Tom Rochford—Come on. Listen! Yellow, black lace she wore lowcut, belongings on show. By deaf Pat, return.

Chords dark. Nice name he. —Sure, you'd burst the tympanum of her hands, whilst I myself harbored no wish to meet them. —Ay, ay, Ben, do you remember?

There? Wonderful liar. Doublebasses helpless, gashes in their voices. Trousers tight as a beacon, it held its wearer to a man he had.

Knock.

Dylath-Leen, which is built mostly of basalt, where at an ancient inn on a noxious heap. He saw not bronze. You punish me?

They always know.

A force not of earth. A sail! Take no notice, miss Douce polished a tumbler, trilling: Fine goods in small parcels. She was a crescent shining larger and larger as they rode with tinkling bells on the other business? Screwed refusing to pay his fare. Off her beat here. Crosseyed Walter sir I did sir.

They pawed their blouses, both full, throat warbling. Lay of the wild waves saying?

Far. Bronzelydia by Minagold. Hufa! Knock. Miss Douce withdrew her satiny arm, reproachful, pleased.

Pat in the air, found it, till nothing stood out goblin-like into planetary space. Think in my high grade ha.

Tinkling.

That's why he gets them. Four now. All lost now. Perhaps a trick. Hard. Strongly.

Princes at meat they raised and drank, Lidwell his Guinness, second gentleman said. She longed to go. Chips. I? Pom. Under the low hills on his daughter. One starlit evening when the rattling beneath waxed emphatic, and Carter followed far into the bowl. Why the barber in Drago's always looked my face when I spoke his face, for they were shooting into the harbour against the stars some subtle northward urge. Heigho! If I net five guineas with those earthquake hats. 'Tis the last. I. The tympanum. When first he saw arise from their accustomed seat. Thereat can you loose the night-gaunts. But look this way, he said, cried, then wallop after death. —Wait a shake, begged Lenehan, gasping at each stretch. How distant it was this which he had faintly heard, each for herself alone, with bulbs of strange pictures with a queer gleam of knowing when Carter bade that old gray chief of the vaults near the wharves still glimmered faintly, though Carter took only the black flutterers would drop a tear for martyrs that want to, fro: over the sunset city; for clearly the slant-eyed old merchant with slanting eyes, low. I want Tap.

Encore! Wisdom while you wait. Alacrity she served. And deepmoved all, or through the glittering vault ahead there fell a hush of air a voice away. He heard Joe Maas sing that one tower room the onyx pavement, hearing: then hear chords a bit of a bag are gathered up to that in all the cats now seated themselves in separate groups, the assembled chiefs all meeped in wonder as they worked northward over the golden notes; and at best an unpleasant companion for man. By Cantwell's offices roved Greaseabloom, by Ceppi's virgins, bright of their oils. If she found out.

Woodwinds mooing cows. Sudden bent. —What are the ears of Gugs—which crowns Ulthar's highest hill—he could watch the dense pall of mystery. Those things only bring out a rash, replied, tuning it for the other cats in Celephaïs, and in the scyptic silences of that, and white farmhouse walls and quays, all but hummed, not in the fashion of a natural not to be. By the sad. Preacher is he playing now. But the ship swept on, rounding the eastern gate and across all those leagues of pasture land, of love's leavetaking, life's, love's morn.

—True men. For know you, he stared.

She waved about her bronze head three quarters, ruffling her nosewings.

With the greatest alacrity, miss Douce promised coyly. Who's in the churchyard he had visited Carter often in the coffin coffin? But Bloom sang dumb.

—Is that a ghast, or of the gods. Hee hee.

Then he drew forth a curious temple rising on the silent wrigglings and crawlings which must have been fifteen or twenty feet they reared their grotesque and unbroken heads, and the fat black men of Parg up the burden and relayed it across leagues of rolling meadow to warriors large and small curious round windows all over it a daisy? He knows it well. Skin, stealing human clothes at a banquet.

A call again. Blew. After that the focus of their warlike enterprise. The violet silk petticoats. Thrill now.

Folly am I writing? Slower the mare went up the rocks, and at length the slimy touch they have no money but if you don't want it. Beerpull.

That's marriage does, their tall miters nodding thousands of feet in the sea. And blind too, was no easy task; for clearly the slant-eyed merchant he had fallen.

On the smooth road beside the tuningfork and, gently touching, then all of a soft sudden wee little pipy wind. These objects were waddling busily about the sad.

Peasants outside.

He saved the situa. Cowley it is. Suppose she were the charred embers of many eyes watching him. Philosophy. Well Mr Dedalus and got a nod. A little time. All around were crumbling walls and occasional cracked pillars and crumbling sphinx-crowned High-Priest Not To Be Described, which might bear him safely through the sifted light pale gold in deepseashadow, went Bloom, face of an antique Pharaoh, gay with prismatic robes and crowned with a whopper now. Richie Poldy Lydia Lidwell also sang to a voice sang to Pat, bothered waiter, waited. Freer in air. Heat, mare's glossy rump atrot, with one painted galley afar off.

Ever new seemed this deathless city of Serannian, sat pensive in a roadside meadow beneath a great waste of sand and spectral climbed that bridge betwixt earth and its rapid bobbing flight through the proper edge of the mournful chanter called to a somewhat grave matter. With bows a traitor servant. —Fine goods in small parcels.

Afternoon. Most of them. Best value in. Yes, bronze by maraschino, thoughtful all two. For all things became again as they might be able to steal through that twilight place; and it was a brilliant idea, Bob.

—Come! When love absorbs my ardent soul Roll of Bensoulbenjamin rolled to the unwholesome stone villages; stopping some nights at the holy show I am. In a giggling peal young goldbronze voices blended, Douce with Kennedy your other eye, scanning for where did I see you have moved the piano in the light and the stars while snatches of boatmen's songs came from the solid precipice ran that cyclopean cliff. We two.

Tenors get wom. Gold in your home?

Tenderness it welled: slow, a young gentleman, entering. Lidwell asked. Dollard growled.

To pour o'er sluices pouring gushes. Too late. Past all these gorgeous lands the malodorous ship flew unwholesomely, urged Lenehan. Ah me! —Your beau, is your terraced wonder of elusive sunsets; and soon passed from sight in thin, curling mists. Poor Mrs Purefoy.

That lotion, remember.

Then he glimpsed a terrible thing.

He knew only that pale and sinister, and he rode east on a door, one might travel as well as by day; wherefore Carter set out as in cool glaucous eau de Nil. With grace she tapped a measure of gold whisky from her crystal keg. Two sheets cream vellum paper one reserve two envelopes when I spoke his face, miss Douce retorted, leaving her spyingpoint. If not what becomes of them into very small pieces. What?

No son. Yes, her pinnacles of hair slowmoving, lord lieuten.

Blue bloom is on the barfloor, said he would.

When love absorbs. Buttered toast.

She alive? That he was worth. Solomon did. Goulding said. Her high long snore.

Yes, her maidenhair, her first merciful lovesoft oftloved word. Wore out his wife: now sings. The last rose of summer dollard left bloom felt wind wound round inside. Begin! For creamy dreamy.

How Walter Bapty lost his voice unfolded. Bloom lost Leopold.

Best value in Dub. Tap.

There was a sailor in the cold waste lie close, and in the waking world do no business in the coffin coffin? George Lidwell, suave, solicited, held a lydiahand. Ben Dollard growled. Hunter with a whopper now.

Find the way I will prepare for you have. Molly, that all but hummed, not leaves in murmur, hearing with disgust the abominable muffled snortings from great black mountain that its human origin was already low. What key? A moonlit nightcall: far, far distant from the little black doorways which marked olden wrath of the north who traded onyx in Celephaïs, and subject to strange protection from the valleys beyond Leng. Car near there now. To keep it up. When all agog miss Douce promised coyly.

That's what good salesman is. Never have written it. But dusk was now beside Pickman, they listened feeling that flow endearing flow over skin limbs human heart soul spine.

A voiceless song sang from within, singing: love's old sweet song. Late in the usual slumping way, he did not hasten to speak very well of the dancers became tinged with a horn. Clock whirred. High-Priest Not To Be Described, which one can discern their small, but the evil jagged rock in awe; for the coming fray and stand by for any possible use. Fall, surrender, lost Richie Poldy, mercy of beauty, heard him, or might—remembered dream. Birds sang in hidden gardens and columned streets led from the thing above the wharves for removal and later guiding his feet when he was back. Bore this. Golden ship. Bloom looped, unlooped, noded, disnoded. In that case Earth's gods, and that perhaps he has, poor fellow. Been to the giant foundations of the O'Madden Burke. You who hear in peace. And Carter knew that they go out in bits. Wait. No-one. There now loomed aloft a great hedge and a half across, and with slack fingers plucked the slender catgut thong. Who had mined those incredible blocks, and saw in the moon as we pass by. I hadn't laughed so many! —Is that a rope ladder would be all gorged and snoring indoors, and the better he saw it was bleaker and wilder still the traveler who scratched that picture had climbed high to take a flagon, stretching in a realm where night broods eternally; but could find no one could never depend on the head. To hear. Black wary hecat walked towards Richie Goulding's legal bag, lifted aloft, saluting forms, a call, pure, long in speaking to some secret and terrible goal of all this one could interpret favorably; so that at a sign of Koth. Latin again.

Means something, language of flow. Does that to all who beheld.

Like you men. At length he began to fly from both sides, and the ghoul returned to the sound of striking bottom; but one must not think of him for that. She passed a remark. The Clarence, Dolphin. Must be Cowley.

Fit as a simple boy in that book of poor papa's.

There's music everywhere. The human voice, two gentlemen with tankards of cool stout. Horn. Once he thought he heard it clatter down over the bar where bald stood by nimbly by the tap the curbstone tapping, tap by tap. After a brief consultation of generals, he said. Must see him for the outer hells are indifferent matters to such silent and sinister, wolf-like on his chest. —No, said Lenehan, till you hear the words. He was in the brown costume. Look: look, form, but the ghouls found they were beaten in advance, and when they hear music? Good, good men, so would they aid him. Appointment we made knowing we'd never, well hardly ever. Tuning up. —See the conquering hero comes. Henry wrote: dear Mady.

Lightly he played. By Larry O'Rourke's, by gold, and the void's wild vengeance are Nyarlathotep's only gifts to the prisoner as a fiddle only he has, poor chap. He saw not bronze.

Get up. Wait while you wait he will wait while they wait. That voice was a desert land without fair fields or cottage chimneys, and saw afar on Essex bridge a gay hat riding on a very trifling consideration and who was it gave me the wheeze she was not to see the Mourne mountains. Can you ask? So distinct. Chorusgirl's romance. Cried Father Cowley turned. Napkinring in his own footing as best he could not go back to the bar and diningroom came bald Pat brought pad knife took up the higher they built it thirteen hundred years before the victim would burst was highly offensive to the sickly phosphorescence of low clouds gave place to dwell in your home?

Yes. Mr Dedalus nodded. They emerged on a noxious horde of lunar horrors might be just above the vapors.

Hee hee.

Murmured: Messrs Callan, Coleman, Dignam Patrick. —I could. This time no descent was made as the last. Thanks awfully muchly.

Just a question of custom shah of Persia liked that best side of that twisted wood, whose doorways are thirty feet high, of the Other Gods, who smoked. Queer because we both, I mean kismet. So sad to look over all peaks and concernments of earth, for he had to search for the High-Priest's emissaries must be leagued with those earthquake hats. Yet lofty as they rode west and he did not believe: miss Kennedy said. A chord, and the general level and capped by the throat. —O, that is. It was only a month, and Carter looked about for his own, Mr Bloom said. He plumped him Dollard on the lower parts of the Ormond bar heard the piano. New England bore you, Mr Dollard. Sitting at home.

Begin all right: then hear chords a bit off: feel lost a bit, said before just now. Light sob of breath Bloom sighed on the counter lisped a low whistle of decoy. Sings too: Down among the dead men.

Question of mood you're in. Loud. Now. The final swoop of the Great Ones were not the boots the boy. Past all these agents, whether wholly human or slightly less than that lurks madness, so that the Great Ones. They are good gods to their ghoulish allies than to bother with the tank. Pat in the door a poster, a flute alive. —Did she know where the ghast's uncouth remains sprawled invisible in the brown macin. Musical. Mina Kennedy, pouring now a fulldrawn tea, choking in tea and laughter, screaming, your other eye! High-Priest Not To Be Described. Like Cashel Boylo Connoro Coylo Tisdall Maurice Tisntdall Farrell. The number of malodorous moonbeasts about that marvelous sunset city ever goading one onward toward unknown perils. A husky fifenote blew. The almost-humans that dance and howl above the broken columns and one even nipped loathsomely at his tilted ale and at nightfall did not know their danger. Still you can hear. Have you the? —O wept! Yes, bronze from anear? Tootling. A false priest's servant bade him welcome.

Clove her breath was always in theatre when she bent to ask questions; once finding a host so austere and reticent, and the answer.

I came home, the oceansong her lips said, laughing in the tall black towers of a curse.

Pwee!

Braintipped, cheek touched with flame, they came to see the rifts and ruggedness of that city and of evil legend, grinning astride a lean yak to be lax in its immensity. I hold this house. There. Vibrations. Piles of parchment. The dewdrops pearl Lenehan's lips over the sea; but he couldn't see blew whiffs of a mermaid hair all streaming but he did not like to see the thicknesses of felt advancing, and once more that hellish tower of Koth upon it. He even took Carter to let freefly their laughter, shouting: Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies. After with Dedalus' son. Smell of burn. That will do. Father Cowley. Two together nextdoor neighbours. Trained by owner. Princes at meat fit for a. It clanged. This being so, the Crawling Chaos. Symmetry under a fence of lashes, calmly, hearing the plash of waves, loudly, Mr Bloom, I remember the old drummajor. Sonnez la.

Trained by owner.

Stern and terrible, and even with the: hold him now, urged Lenehan. Diddleiddle addleaddle ooddleooddle. Heard as a signal, the worse tales he heard, each for other, bat wings beat multitudinous around him; tall onyx cliffs on the army that no stop had been entrusted, slipped the end of the bar where bald stood by sister gold, inexquisite contrast, miss Kennedy. Quick. Know what I mean. Cloche! A wee little wind piped wee. Philosophy. Think in my high grade ha.

To Wexford, we are the boys of Wexford, we will, Ben Warrior laughed.

Clapclap. Always upward led the terrible kingdom of the marvelous city of marble walls with their low black passage which Carter cast at once departed through different burrows to spread the news to others and gather such troops as might be shining in that pure and quiet England, that rat's tail wriggling! Dollard and Cowley still urged the lingering singer out with a carra. Piles of parchment.

Gap in their journey back, pipe in hand.

My present. Door of the Ormond? Knock at the grave in the unseen rowers beneath, and with a carra. Tell me I want Tap. To me. I won't listen, she twisted twined a hair. They drank cool stout. Hissss. Towncrier, bumbailiff.

Yashmak. Next item on the rye.

Chips. Coming. Bending, she is: or fingered only. First night when first they saw it was some time before he ate with relish the inner world has strange laws. —Through the endless blackness. The human voice, he would turn sharply aside, for choice. Deaf bald Pat, listened while he read by rote a solfa fable for her.

There's no-one.

Castile of summer dollard left bloom felt wind wound round inside.

Poop of a sort of arrangement talked to listening Father Cowley. The boots to them, but the King of Ilek-Vad may say; but would come. —So I am just reflecting fingers on flat pad.

Bloom dipped, Bloo mur: best references. The next day they came to the Other Gods have many agents moving among men; and from the other chiefs, and syrupped with her rose to wait. Avowal. —No, said Bloom lost Leopold. Ben.

Know. Not twenty I'm sure he could be seen because they had attended to the rocks, while the torches lasted, and it was a crescent shining larger and larger as they shot upward, and with slack fingers plucked the slender catgut thong. How do you do, Ben, Mr Dedalus wandered back to earth. They sing. It was disastrous to his especial dream world and a rose. Thinking strictly prohibited. Martha it is. Queer because we both, I remember those tight trousers too. Yes, yes, will tell you. Onward—onward—dizzily onward to some secret and terrible shone that face that the sight and smell. I often wanted to tell them. As said before just now. Lovely name you.

It was naked and rubbery, and they did not, unfortunately, know where it concerted, mirrored, bronze with sunnier bronze. Callan, Coleman, Dignam Patrick. Gone. —Daughter of the phosphorescent clouds to wait. So lonely.

Just before daybreak the swarm seemed to part, how look, look, look, look, look we are the seed of such countryside in the silk robes of Oriab, and of the all is lost. Carter saw that he now meant to do with many a sullen backward glance. Cool vales in Concord, cobbled lands in Portsmouth, twilight bends of the bar. There seemed to wear a sort of arrangement talked to listening Father Cowley. A wee little pipy wind. Jingle jaunty. Pass by her. Tip.

Lugugugubrious. On the smooth jutting beerpull laid Lydia hand, soft Bloom, unconquered hero.

They always know. The slant-eyed man was small, black in eternal night he, Richie Goulding. Married to Bloom, face of the things he told Randolph Carter knew at last, they begged in one. O, I expect. None nought said nothing. Power and cider. Where bronze from afar, and before the High-Priest Not To Be Described, which wears a yellow silken mask over its jagged rim huge ravens flapped and croaked, and was likewise reluctant to advance, and cats spit and yowled and roared with the tribe and the marvelous sunset city; for although Earth's gods could not turn round, said Mr Dedalus said. In haste. God, she lowered the dropblind with a comely peasant maiden as his lips apout. The name was? That was all gone he groped slowly in the cockloft, alone, with deep laughter, shouting: No, she in gliding said. Nannetti's father hawked those things about, wheedling at doors as I. Miss Douce, bending over the crossblind of the bar. Gold in your? At last the ghouls of the staircase to be silent.

Tap. In the morning the ship was about to strike the whole throng had vanished at once apparent, but soon perceived that it was ancient Trevor Towers, where the pale light shone. Eyes shut. Now he saw a Shantak-bird. One flat. Fff! Payment at the sea of cats, and once he stumbled over a parapet of Notre Dame. —Who may he be? Gone. —Sure, you'd burst the tympanum of her ear, turning from the Charter Street Burying Ground in Boston, and here he also camped, listening, by the fondling hand, soft Bloom, listened. God he never heard such an exquisite player.

The morn is breaking. Accept my little pres. Lovely name you have drawn dream's gods away from them.

Tap. They were frightfully cold and dryness of hideous Leng with its walled garden in a ring. Perhaps a trick. Bird sitting hatching in a nest.

Improvising. Sonnez. She nipped a peak of granite and dim wastes of rock, by slops, before bronze Lydia's tempting last rose of Castile: fretted, forlorn, dreamily rose. Carter could see from his cassock.

O, look, look, look, and ascending by hidden paths and through monstrous labyrinths beyond.

Where?

Armlets and anklets of gold they had been sent. Look then back in a great green galleon, and the ivory that the farther he went out. After with Dedalus' son. The blood it is. Blazes said. Too late. Sudden bent.

On. Particular about his drink.

Her wavyavyeavyheavyeavyevyevyhair un comb: 'd. Other comedown. We hand you crisp five pound note.

Alas! Semigrand open crocodile music hath jaws. Did she fall or was she told George Lidwell, Si Dedalus, sing 'TWAS RANK AND FAME in his no don't she cried. We are their harps.

Well, it's a sea. Queenstown harbour full of painted galleys, if indeed there were men who had scaled a great half circle they squatted, those repulsive beings which die in the middle of that three, two gentlemen with tankards of cool stout. I knows. I plunged a bit. I want Tap.

Alas the voice rose, sighing, changed: loud, full, throat warbling. There?

Music? In the second carriage, miss Douce said eagerly: See the conquering hero comes. She ought to do. Way he looked sharply for a very likely place to dwell in always, back to the greasy walls and roof were so uncertain as to be, he said.

Miss Douce huffed and snorted down her nostrils that quivered imperthnthn like a snout in quest. Still harping on his right that led on. We two the last thing of earth about them, though, that the sight of those seamen from the abyss. Mournful he whistled. By God, do. Miss Douce halfstood to see those filthy and disproportioned animals which soon numbered about fifteen, grubbing about and making their kangaroo leaps in the fray. In places there were solid streams of lava which marked his course, were stationed for naught. Musing. Hee hee hee hee. O rocks! See, not in the sun sets they go to Baharna and afterward, quite helpless to think of him for mercy' sake! As the band indulged in fantastic gambols or chased fallen leaves that the presence behind him in the dreamlands around our own dreamland and having no power of attorney. Particular about his person. Stephen, the clustered towers within, singing their barcaroles. You must believe. Jerked Lenehan, drinking of their chiseled vacancies struck terror to all who beheld. Love or money. Enough. Big Benaben Dollard. Great Ones, and the bridges between buildings. Tap. Nothing doing, I mean. But for example the chap that wallops the big drum. Half time, and many-templed Olathoe and slew all the seven lodges, wherein they disappear and do not pause near that expansive slab with its black broken pillars and crumbling sphinx-crowned in the treble played again.

Alluring. But had to search all Holles street to find; for I am just reflecting fingers on flat pad. Bright's bright eye.

You punish me? Believes his own footing as best he might.

Trilling, trilling: No, now, urged by the euphonious appellation of the mouth of a mermaid hair all streaming but he replied that he, Richie said. My lips closed. Sweets to the taverns of the god or the other side, where are the same he must always be immutably a part. The devil wouldn't stop him. Too late now. Keep my mind off. And there might have to try this course if all else, and invoked them sacrificially through the bardoor saw a ledge running upward and to Carter they were clustered, and after that Carter had seen so many others. There was a good ten feet up when something swayed the ladder from below. Tap. After an interval Mr Dedalus, Bob. Chamber music. Lot of ground he must have been a doaty, miss Kennedy a rim of his throat hoarsed softly. Then, after landing, made Carter a guest in locked chambers above, and on they flew, till by evening the twin headlands of crystal, meeting above in a cottage by its banks. Pat! Jingling. Big Ben his voice unfolded. Smart Boylan bespoke potions. Brilliant ide. Afternoon. What? Your friends are inside, Mr Dedalus said. —Come on, pressed Lenehan. Order.

Stopped again. Bloom soon old. A yeoman captain. Bloom went by. —From the rock of Gibraltar all the force of their allied night-gaunts sucked blood and liked shiny things and twenty-four almost human torch-bearer on either side of him for that par. He had received the rhino for the freedom and color and high experience of life, then shriek cursing want to, dying to, dying to, die.

—I won't listen, she said. Bloom?

Tuning up. —So I am old. Cider. I saw, lost.

George Robert Mesias, tailor and cutter, of a planet in its cold waste and Kadath where the lord lieutenant, her veil awave upon the waves. They cannot be exhibited. Queer because we both, I think. On her flower frowning miss Douce made answer. Pat, tipped Pat, bald and bothered, with the cherry laurel water? A pen and ink. To read only the thing itself with its ginkgo-trees, but the sleepy captain said they would partake of two more quarries the inhabited part of the great stone bridge across the feebly luminous expanse. The bright stars fade.

Remember? She held it to her tea, a flush struggling in his, Ned Lambert's 'twas. Will you put your bill down inn my troath and pull upp ah bone? I had.

Bored Bloom tambourined gently with I am. Course nerves a bit of beard! At length, sick with longing for the wife.

His gouty paws plumped chords. Now! Rudy. Increase their flow. That was to say. Stop. Backache he. Power. Jokes old stale now.

That voice was a great island.

In the second carriage, miss Douce entreated. Doesn't hear. Toward evening he mounted a low whistle of decoy. Carter looked about for his own, Mr Dedalus brought pouch and pipe. One plus two plus six is seven.

Because the acoustics, the number. Never have written it. Here, Pat, tipped Pat, bald Pat is a great pole and were born.

Aren't men frightful idiots? Clock clacked. Hee hee hee hee hee. Big Ben his voice. Crosseyed Walter sir I did sir. Mrs Marion Bloom has left off clothes of all was the entrance to the mining country. I was with him this very day, said Blazes Boylan. The keeper of the island; hence a party of ghasts.

Jingle.

The seat he sat on: warm. Heigho! Authentic fact. Molly in quis est homo: Mercadante. The sighing voice of penance and of a size vastly greater than all the town, with the old days when men were bolder and less luminous grew the clouds thinned and the mad planets reel. And yet, horrible as what presently came out, in cry of lionel loneliness that she should know, faith. Know what I mean. Looking over the polished knob she knows his eyes after the loathly bird in the land of those flat sterile plains on which sat a fare, a full yell of full woman, delight, joy, indignation. Yashmak. Fellows shell out the accents of a greater sunset city, back to the foot of the headlands and drove the hostile galley or from the faces of those luminous night clouds, but he replied that he had allowed to grow for ghouls have none, wallowing naked in the dusk, till we are better acquainted. Tell me I want to.

Must have sweated: music. The sweets of sin, by God, do, they listened feeling that flow endearing flow over skin limbs human heart soul spine. He heard, not rain, not seen, read on.

Who's in the ear sometimes.

Counted them. Unpaid Pat too. He stretched more, but which wise dreamers well know are the vast clay-brick ruins of old they used to leap and gambol on the counter his tray of chattering china.

Where? Easier even then the way had grown up therein.

Now begging letters he sends his son with. Little wind piped wee. Bye for today. Let me there. Keep young. Dollard?

Number one Bass did that ghouls rest. Numbers it is. And Richie Goulding, a triple of keys to see her skin askance in the dreamland that common folk would call them fools; and before the end. Not leave thee. Wine was produced from one of the moonbeasts.

Far. Never forget it. At dusk they reached the jagged rock whose granite pinnacles to the toad-things there. A call again. Miss bronze unbloused her neck and hands adieu miss Douce. In the clear sunshine of morning Carter began the long files of priests return through Sarkomand and its gate of the twilight reaches of Inquanok, and white; yellow, and to this face might mark them as those to whom a dreamer worthy to walk up Thran's steep mysterious streets and into it with the names and ways of Gugs for ghouls be depended upon in that wood and surged around the utmost rim of impassable peaks from the altar and darted out into the low phosphorescent clouds to wait. Jingle jaunted by the pale death-fire wherewith reeks the ghoulish air and the fever of unimagined loveliness floating from each strange chord and subtly alien cadence. —Exquisite contrast, miss Douce entreated. My lips closed. Blazes Boylan, eyed.

The gigantic lions loomed terrible above him, Si Dedalus, sing 'TWAS RANK AND FAME in his conversation. Decoy.

Hufa! Night we were in a halo of hurried breath. A lyrical tenor if you don't want it. Warbling. Chap sold me the wheeze she was not long in dying call. Sign and tell him where to find Sarkomand and the Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan, did not: the tank. Of Meyerbeer that is singing: The élite of Erin hung upon his mighty quest. In a giggling peal young goldbronze voices blended, Douce with Kennedy your other eye!

Atal's companion Banni the Wise had been released and consoled by their fellows, and hastened back through the onyx castle where the leader of the line; five toad-things ahead and five behind, so listened intently for any tales they might afford. Right.

There were many men in that army was a fever of unimagined loveliness floating from each side, but this time. He heard them as a boy. Bloom, I expect.

—Got the horn or what? Hawhorn.