Rudh Gwozda

RUDH GWOZDA
ab R.E.Howard
Sambahsa tarjem
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Id ghalv ep id perwnt
Ia gwen pit trehtihes sien exhaust reidbiest. El ekwis ne movit, sien jambs mulayim-ye ghohnct, cap clihn perodh, kamsei hatta id ansia ex rudh lieter ornet med golden piskyols al kwehkiet pior gwaur. Ia fortr	axit uter bautvehsend ped ex id argwrnto striepmen ed skans kata id goldkmeht seddel. Ia dieh ia oulers ei ghabel uns brouteck ed vols, sien hands ep sien hanks, kay chehxe id decor ambh iam.
Eet pau jazib. Giganta drus king id smulk bassin quetos ays ekwis hiebit just poht. Teguts ay stabh vide correct-ye do id xep ios hog akmen om interplohcen ozda. Un spasmodic kreus iendhays omsa ed ia rughiet.
Ia eet buland, platupizdan, hieb longa memsa ed robust omsa. Ays hol silhouette bevis un pau communo nerce, aun yed giowe ject ex id stero grace quod lud ex ays apparence. Speit ays gwayt ed vesters, hol in iam wehsit magoti. Ays povestis kwohk exterdohbra, dat id perambhend decor. Ia vohs neid fustan, sontern un silken sarvari stopend ye oin handwure uper aysa genus, protiedarn ab un weur silkstrei vulbhen ambh ays lendv kam un yeusmen. Ays plohdert bauts ex urand lieter niekeer quasi aysa genus ed ayso silken decolletee camiss, samt plaut armels ed colnier, completit ays trakh. Un seido doublekhar einso hiengit kata uter aysen graciu hanks ed un long daga kata alter. Ays blond ed rauft kays, quadrathajamat ye id hoge iom omsen, eent protiedarn ab un rika ex scarlat satin. 
Aun eiskwus to, ia wierdh pictoresk-ye in tod immemorial forest in-yod ia kwohk curieus-ye misplacet. Ia habiet sollen stahe ant un aptergrund em marnebhs, pigen masta ed mevs twehrnd in id hava. Eet marcolor in id bund aysen mier okwi. To eet alnos normal, litghi de Valeria ios Rudh Keiwia, quos megil wehrgs sonti celebret med chantes ed doinas querkwe i marscursors wehse.
Ia se strohng ad transspehce id maurglend akmen iom interplohct ozden ed dyehrce id waurn quod sollit spande hoger, bet ia vityohgvit katathematisend-ye.
Linkwnd sien dieht ekwem, ia gress eustworts, glanzend-ye ex tid do tid kyid bassin apter se kay memorise sien itner. Id silence ios forestios depress iam. Nel av kien ep ia hog ozda, neid streip in ia buska kay dikes id presence smelen. Ia hieb andht leuks in un rig os profund silence, quod tik hiebeer gwohmen ad brehge ia bloska os ays wi fug.
Ia hieb stillen sien teurst ex id bassin, bet ia khiss id biaur os hungher ed bipieursk ta fruits ep-ya ia hieb wuxen pos exhausus ia meriends ia hieb tobohrn in ia holks os sien seddel. 
Dind ia dyohrc ant se un tehngos ex maur ghianshiek, kwehkend kam flint, quod lud kye quo tengicit ses un karwent promontur, tarcto trans ia drus. Kad id akrum eet meis alen quem id drucim, ed kad kata tod hoge ia ghehdiet tun vide quo eet dalger... seighi esiet alyo jecto quem tod kwecto aunlimite forest unte-yod ia eegwahsit deub pon tanta diens.
Un angho cornice skip uno natural rampe quod duxit kyid topp tos skarp. Pos oisteighus unte penkgimtia peden, ia ghohd tiel id bremzone quod begir id karwent piton. Drus crohsc ye sem distance tetos, bet id niter bors iren ozden strip id ghianshiek ed ia covohr id pitono med ir glendia. Ia stohmbh kam blind in id temos tom brems, khakend vide quodkwe ender au uper se, pre vidyehrce un schtuk os blou waurn. Oik secundes serter emers ia ex teni ed wohsit sub akster warm diewo. Id forestakmen lyohg pod iam. 
Ia stahsit ep un weru promontur quod niek takriban id drucim. Un perwntak lud ex tod promontur, quos akrum eet id ubsell ios karwent block ia hieb just udstighen. Nu-bud iam alyo ject. Ays ped hieb hurten semquod in id khiyaaban tursen waraks quod covohr id promontur. Ia ierk ia bolis med sien doiks ed aunstohg uno mensco skeletum. Ia chohx med sien pepermen ok id blaycht nugwrnt, yed aunkohlder neid trace om brohgen osta ni sem signe os violence. El mensc sollit mehrus ob natural mohrt, lakin ia khiekit ghabe ma is hieb udglohmen un tem alt karwent promontur pre mehre ter.
Ia glohmber atopp id perwntak ed spohc id horizont. Ex ays uperkeihsa, id forestakmen samkwohk un vegetal parterre, tem impenetrable vis hetos quem nitos. Ia ne hatta ghohdit dyehrce id bassin prokwem-yod ia hieb likwn sien reidbiest. Ia glaz nordtro, do id direction quetos ia hieb gwohmen. Ia vis tik id glend ocean quod wans tiel vidleus ed tierk uno mulayim blou ligne dalgi, quod mierk id tolp ios coteau ia tohrn diens prever, pre trehce deub do tod glendiaykwos. 
Id prospect eet id sam eusti ed westi, ploisko id moder ligne iom clins. Men kun ia wohrt sien okwi sudtro ia stohv ed enderwaursit sien annem. Ye oino milio dalgtro, id foresto skideriesc pre zastrehce brutal-ye, linkwnd place uni cactuscomspergen plain. Ed medsu tod aykwos oistieur ia walls ed tors uns urb. Valeria rughiet ob surprise. 
To udlit aum. Ne habiet esto surprindant vide menscwoikias, ia alveyskeip hyts uns aydokw irk au ia troglodytic habitations ios mysterieus bruncuit race quod gwivit, sekwent ia legends, semloc in tod inexploret region. Bet eet meis quem staunend incontre un citad samt petrawalls, her, ye tant long ghanghevds ud ia prokwst prodwalsa os cada forme os civilisation. 
Sien hands gvolend ob id udsteighen ios perwntak, ia se sisit slides ep id karwent promontur, perplex de kam age. Ia gwohm dalgtos, ex id mercenarenlagher medsu ia miera prairies ambh id grance urb Sukhmet. Ti aunpaur aventurers ois mult races protexeer ter id stygian hadh ud ia raids qua lahr kam un scarlat voln pon Darfar. Ia hieb fugen blind-ye deub do un gaivia de-yod ia wois neid. Ed taiper, ia eet dilt inter id irresistible wehnos os galoppe seid-ye do tod citad medsu id plain ed sien instinctive prudence quod isnahsit iam ad kwehre un vasto detour in sien khalwani fug. 
Ays brens buir chassen ab id sosule quod sroht ia waraks niter. Ia pivotit ep sien persnas med un alnos felin uriende ed ays hand grip akster-ye ays eins... ed tun, ia stahsit still ed distier ei wir qui wohs ant iam. 
Is eet quasi un olbjim ob buliende ; eys muscles oistohlb nett-ye sub eys solburst cuit. Eys vehsmen eet samlik aysi, sonst od eys weur yeusmen eet ex lieter ed ne ex wehbh. Un weurmiech eins ed un khandjar hiengeer kata id.
* Conan is Kimri ! Exclamit ia. Ma tar me	apterpersnes tu ?
Un omoedd smeih fiss id lige ios Kimri quos lyut blou okwi, embraden ab un flamme ghohd-yod nia gwena misaye, se forglexeer ep id schungjin silhouette, id kehmb ios splendid pizdan sub id legvo camiss ed ep ia parts os blanko cuit qua prohp inter id sarvari ed id topp iom bauts.
* Kwe ne woidst tu to ? Cakhinit is. Ne tib ho kafi	diken mien admiration pro te yant te ho vis pro id prest ker ?
* Un loschak ne habiet deidikie to clarer, antwohrd ia	med un honnprotiokwo. Bet habiem naiwo mohnt wassale tem dalg ud ia	alubutts ed ia tencheres os Sukhmet. Me has tu druve-ye sohkwt pon	Zarallos lagher we buist tu chassen tetos med bich-cutts kam un	fur ?
Is glihsit ant ays insolence ed rollih sien staur biceps.
* Sua woidst od Zarallo ne hat kafi hoyert gredins pro	chasse me ex id lagher med bich-cutts, fried is. Yaghi te ho sohkwn.	Eti to buit tib un nassib, bent ! Quando has dyohgwn tom	stygian officier, has lusen id maund ed id protection os Zarallo ed	te has oisloyn in id regard im Stygians.
* Woidim, antwohrd ia med un skeudo ton. Bet quod als	miegh io kwehre ? Suawoids' kam is hat me provoquet.
* Weidwos, acquiescit is. Sei habiem est ter, ioswo	habiem dyohgwt iom. Bet quan un gwen ghyeir' gwive perambhen ab wirs	in un militar waun, ia solliet exspecte solg jects.
Valeria stiemp id grundo med id takoun siens baut ed rughiet.
* Ma wirs ne me sine me gwive un wirgwit ?
* Id antwehrd est evident ! (Is glexit iam iter	las-ye). Yed buis' meg clever de mwaungsoue. I Stygians te habient	skehniht. Is brater tos officier te hat sohkwn... ed meis jaldi quem	quo fikrist, ne bedwoim to. Ne eet meg dalg apter te quando ho	joinen iom. Eys ekw eet gohder quem tienis. Is te habiet udriden ed	segen tien gurgule oik milia dalger.
* Ed tun ? Sprohg ia.
* Tun quod ? Antwohrd is, kam pribuden.
* Is Stygian...
* Bet, quod credeihs tu ? Antwohrd is med un	impatient ton. Ho nicen iom, weidwos, ed likwn eys carcasse im	gwulturs. Lakin, to me hat chitayn, ed ho quasi lust tien ighnos	quando has uperriden id crest iom clins. Sonst, te habiem navax'	diutos. 
* Ed nun credeihs vahs bringhes me tsay jabran do	Zarallos lagher ? Goilit ia.
* Mae bah kam un idiotin, brohm is. Hay, bent, mae leik	iam tigrika. Ne som kam so Stygian has dyohgwt, ed to woidst tu...
* Un aundenar vagabond..., goilit ia.
Is iam spohc ed iliey.
* Ed qua credeihs tu ses ? Ne has hatta kafi denars	kay tib payghe nov sarvaripans. Tien honn ne me impremt. Suawoidst	od ho ammert navs meg mierer ed swoins ed meg kathirer quem has aiwo	kwohrt. Ses orm... Qualg errant aventurer ne est orm, pleistens ?	Ho spens tan' gold in vasya ports tienxia quem ghehdiem plehe un	galeon iosmed ! Ed toschi woids'.
* Ed quer sont ia bell navs ed i courageus navs tu	immerst ? Goilit ia.
* Pleisti in id budmen iom oceans, antwohrd is	elangver-ye. I Zingarians hant sinc' mien akhir nav apo ia schemi	causta... Itak ho rallien Zarallos Leudhersokwis. Ho vighaben io	hieb esen dohlen kun habmos marchet ep id grance os Daftar. Id paygh	eet maigher, id vin sour, ed Aydokwas ne me attrage. Ed ias eent ias	sauls quas gwohm do nies lagher in Sukhmet, samt ir nasrings ed ir	slim' dents, fu ! Ma has tu joinen Zarallo ? Sukhmet est	meg dalg ud saldwedor. 
* Ortho is Rudh me buwskwit sien parika, antwohrd ia	sombre-ye. Ho kammert uperbord ed snaht kyid ripa ; id nav plu	prokwem ia kushi causta, apo Zabhela. Ter, un schemi tajir mi hat	saygen od Zarallo hieb ducen sien Leudhersokwias do id Sud kay	protege id grance con Darfar. Io hieb neid gohder behd. Ho kwohrt	itner con un caravan quod trohc eusttro ed viarrivim do Sukhmet. 
* Eet follia gwahe deub do id Sud kam has kwohrn, kieu	Conan, betschi un hakime decision, ar Zarallos patrols habien' naiwo	mohnrn de te paurske in tod direction. Tik is brater ios wir has	nicen hat retrohf' kjiawxieng tien ighnos.
* Ed quod kwehrskws tu taiper ? Sprohg ia.
* Tournes westtro, antwohrd is. Ho ja wohst tem dalg	sudi, bet naiwo tem dalg eusti. Mult westwor' ghangdiens nos	bringhsient kyid mier savana quer ia aydokwa teuts paske ir peku. Ho	prients in ta teuts. Nacsiemos id caust ed trehfsiemos un nav. Io	bactisse jungle.
* Tun, bikwehr itner, ei riedh ia. Ego de ho alya	projects.
* Mae sdi stupid ! (Is bevis erghia ye id prest ker)	Khacs nawander unte tod forest.
* To ghehdo sei to decido.
* Bet quod kwehrskws tu ? 
* To ne te betrehft, antwohrd ia med un aggressive ton.
* Yed si, jawieb is sakwn-ye. Kwe credeihs te ho sohkwt	tem dalgtro tik kay abgires samt tuich hands ? Hab ghi aum,	bent. Ne te harmskwo.
Is oistiup kyam ed ia klieup retro gwehleihnd-ye sien eins. 
* Retro, tu kwaun barbar ! Vahm te becepe kam un	rosten swin !
Is oistahsit still protievol ed sprohg iam :
* Kwe vols ke ghendo tod leuyk ex tien hands ed folossiem	id kay spanke te ?
* Werds ! Tik werds ! Goilit ia.
Diutis samlik ad solarg ep bou wedor diens in id budmen aysen aunpaur okwi. Is wois to eet druve. Neis wir ghohdit desarme Valeria ios Sokwia ni gwive kay jimane de. Is brovit, praedd om contradictor emotions. Is eet sammel grasban ed kathalika zalisset ed pleno med admiration face id pinseing ias gwenak. Is ghid sizes tod splendid corpos ed sehre id gvalt-ye in sien stalen brakhs, yedschi ne hurtskwit iam. Is eet dohrn inter sien wehnos os violent-ye scutte iam ed tod os caresse iam. 
Is wois od sei is gwehmiet lyt pior prosch iam, ia sehiet sieno miecho do eys kerd. Is hieb vis Valeria nices pior wirs unte raids ep id grance ed creschmadraugs pro misaytum iam. Is woisit ia eet tem oku ed gver quem un tighrin. Is ghohd weidwos exkardkasche sien eins ed desarme iam skandeihnd-ye aysum ex ays hand, bet id menos de fehkhte protiev un gwen, esdi is ne vurnskwit iam, ei eet besonters kados.
* Sdi balstohmt, pacharva ! Exclamit is in sien	exasperation. Vahm rehve tien...
Is oistiup kyam, todribhen ab sien bolt passion, ed ia se preparit ad bires un katel cutt. Tun gwohm un stayg ed surprindant wakya ad interrumpes tod sammel perileus ed kwalisk intertolk.
* Quod est ?
Nu-hieb Valeria just emitten tod taajub, bet ambo sprud gvalt-ye ed Conan pivotit kam un simbva, gwehleihndo sieno mier eins in sien hand. In id forest hieb udclanghen un horrible concert om hingols... ekwi praedd uns abjectios terror ed iom khiterst payttens. Id stumpo blosk om brohgen osta gwohm ad se blande tei clamor.
* Lions attaque i ekwens ! Scricit Valeria.
* Quer has tu vis lions ? Stris Conan, samt argu	okwi. Has tu aurn un lion baube ? Neschi ego ! Aur ta	crackend osta, un lion ne kwehriet solg blosk neicend-ye un ekwem.
Is precipitit-se ghom id natural rampe ed ia sohkwit iom. I primyohrs ir faydh, mot ab id natural instinct im aventurern ad unie-se face un commun danger. Ia hingols hieb chwoyt kun i vighohd ghom id perwnt, se sehndend per id glendiakehlder quod king tod. 
* Ho trohven tien ekwo dieht prokwem id bassin ter,	murmurit is, stehmbhend-ye tem silent-ye quem ia neti dieum kam is	hieb kwohrt kay surprindes iam ep id perwnt. Ho dieht mien reidbies'	nieb tienem ed ho sohkwt ia prints tienen bauts. Nun spehc !
I hieb emers ex id bremzone ed chohx nitro, do id anun ios forest. Uper i hieb id subglend akmen tenden sien deusk baldaquin. Ender id, id diewo filtrit just kafi pro skipes un jaden regwos. Ye oik decens om stieups tetos, ia gigantesk stamms eent temost ed kam guway.
* I ekwi sollient wehse just apter id tegut ter, murmurit	Conan tem mliak-ye quem eys voc habiet ghohdt ses un brise blahnd	per ia ozda. Kleu !
Valeria hieb ja aurn. Un glehdjic kreus iendh ays veines ed ia pos inconscient-ye sien pall hand ep id muscleus ed brunen brakh os sien sokwi. Ex trans id tegut, i ieur id stump cracken osten ed id dehren krewsen, blans ibs echos om gieusa ed pieusa uns horrible dapan. 
* Lions ne deughient solg bolsk, murmurit Conan. Semject	es' praeddend nies ekwens, bet ne est un lion... Crom !
Id blosko chwoyit stayg ed Conan exbohr un pwolstupen rughat. Un stayg brise hieb just luden apter i ed blahsit seid kye quer el invisible assassin eet perbohrgen ud ir vid.
* Her el gwehmt ! Murmurit Conan leivend-ye sien	einso ye pwolhoge.
Id tegut sroht gvalt-ye ed Valeria antgrip Conans darmo brakh. Quayque ia wois neid de id jungle, ia gnohsit lakin od nel animal ia kohgn iti habiet ghohden scutte ia buska ye tod weidos.
* Sollt ses tem iblis taungh quem un elephant, murmurit	Conan, in echo ei men ias gwenak.
Eys voc se fortieyc do un sassar silence.
Un cap om coschmar ed demence hieb just prohpen per ia khaluza. Fradghyanus aunstohg roigs om cruorsmeu gohlben fildisches ; uper id ghyahndo muk wohs uno naster samlik tei es unem nakwr. Enormn okwi, samkwehkend ta uns python, yed tusents taungher, stier aun palpeber im dwo petrifiet menscims qui antgrip id perwnt uper el. Cruoro srusit ex els muk, poikeihnd elsa squamic ed slemb lipps.
Els cap, taungher quem tod uns crocodile, eet geibho ye id bors uns long squamwent coll ep-yod ghohrs un roig srakuten aks. Apter tod coll, treudend ia vreiks ed yun drus, stohmbh un titancorpos samt kowk torso, dehn ep absurd-ye cort jambs. Elso subalbh gventer quasi firschit id grund ed id akzannt coll eet pior hog mae Conan nakiet id ep pedbors. Un long acut swayp, lik tei es un scorpion samt gigantesk proportions, se sohlk sekwos id.
* Steigh tsay ep id perwnt, oku ! Bieu Conan	repulgend-ye iam kweil apter se. Ne mehno el ghehdt glehme hetro,	bet el ghehdt stahe ep sien cloinpodia ed nake nos.
Trahnend ia arbusta ed rehvend ia buska, el monster stohmbh unte ia khaluza ed i ieg kyid topp ios perwnt kam windchassen waraks. Kun Valeria mers do id verdure ecran, un retroglanez ay dik el titan quel stieu terrible-ye ep sien cloinpodia kam Conan hiebit presaygen. Vidend to, panique lambh iam : stahnd it, el ubsell gver kwohk dar mei gigantesk, ed elso plattnaster cap stohlb ud ia drus. Dind Conans isern hando zaghyahsit ep Valerias runc ed ia buit gvalt-ye tract perodh-ye do id glendblindend ocean. Ia wohs iter sub id warm diewo just kun el monster hih med sien propodia id piton samt un impacto quod vibrihsit id perwnt. 
Za bi fugitives, id gigantesk cap fiss ia ozda ed pung id drucim ed, unte un dekhschatic instant, Conan ed Valeria vis tod coschmarcap wardhe medsu ia glend waraks, samt flamboyant okwi ed ghyahnda ghyanus. Poskwo ia gigantedonta clieck ed zaghyahr ep kenos, ed id cap recess, disprehpend ud ir vid kamsei id habiet just duben ender wed.
Spehcend per ia brohgen ozda qua strahr ep id perwnt, Conan ed Valeria vis el creature, hocken ep elso cloinpodia pod id karwent promontur, uperwakhe i med sien aunmic okwi.
Valeria krus.
* Kamdiu mehns tu el vaht nahocke katha ?
Conan kielc id ghalv quod lyohg ep id warakencovehr.
* Tel soll' glehmus hetro kay skape ud el, we skape ud	oin elsen congenern. Els osta ne son' brohct. Tod ject sollt ses un	dragon, lik tim de qui ia legends im Aydokwen bahnt.Sei ya, el niet	move hetos pre wey bo habsiemos mohrt.
Valeria iam spohc med un absent protiokwo, myehrsend sien ressentiment. Ia enderwieurg id panique voln quod menacit uperlahe iam. Ia hiebit beviden sien bolt courage tusents unte gver bois mari ed landi, ep ia cruorsmeu decks om weirnavs praess ab flammes, unte ia hajoums om fortifieta citads ed ep ia strands quer i aunpaur yeudmi ios Rudh Keiwia trahr sand ed nic mutu med khandjarcutts unte ir katus po magh. Bet id beurt quod apterskohpt iam tuntos glohdj id sehrg in ays veines. Un boijar kardicutt eet neid, bet na-sedde achiz ep tod pusten perwnt hina nehce ob hungher, belaghetn ab un mustring survivence uns esont era... Tod enfall yis panique wands deub do ays atmen. 
* El sollsiet abgwahe kay pohe ed praedde, ieyit ia samt	un achiz protiokwo.
* El niet tehrbe gwahe meg dalgtro kay kwehre uter, kauih	Conan. El hat jus' uperpohldt med ekwenmiems ed, alnos kam un	serpent, el ghehdt mane diu pre naudhe preadde we pohe iter. Lakin,	mi ya kwehct el ne narc' pos praeddus, kam kwehriet un druv serpent.	Zowngschie, el khac' bestighes tod perwnt.
Conan bahsit med un sakwn ton. Is eet un barbar, ed id athime patience iom immense wakhschats ed iren purts eent tant integral part os eys personalitat quem eys nafsanias ed eys rages. Is ghohd endure un situation kam cid med un stoicisme rhayrfikret ab un bfuyeamban.
* Kwe ne ghehdiemos mwaungsoue per ia drus, glehmber ex	ozd do ozd kam kieps ? Sprohg Valeria med un desperatum ton.
Is oiscussit sien cap.
* Ho mohn' de to. Ia ozda qua touche id perwnt ender nos	son' pior teun. Brehgien' sub nies vyige. Eti, mi enfallt tel demon	ghehdiet exraudhe vasya drus ios atraf.
* Tun ghi, vahmos wey na-sedde her ep nies noits hina	mehriemos ob hungher katha ? Scricit ia, furieus, kalcend-ye	gwis-ye id ghalv ed yeisend-ye id rolle ocolo id perwnt. Io refuse !	Vahm stighes ghom ed tehme els iblis cap...
Conan hieb sess ghom ep un salswrnt ios ghianshiek, pod id petrak. Is oispohc admirative-ye do ia enflammen okwi ias meirka ed ays tenden ed kreusplen silhouette. Bet, ghabend ia eet parat ad quodkwe in sien follia, is sis transprehpe neid ex sien admiration quan is wohkwit : 
* Sedd ghom, brohm is, kapend ays runc ed attragend iam	ep sien grem (Ia buit pior surpris pro resiste menxu is siz id einso	ias gwenak ed renkardkiesch id.) Na-sedd. Mae mov sontern	sakwnasc. Kamyabies tik brehge tien miech ep els squams. Te	guraghiet unte oin schtoss we behngiet tien corpos kam un oivkiaut	med sien squamic swayp. Siemos nehse ex tod gandighi semkam, bet	khacsiemos sei bihmos phact.
Ia antwohrd neideti nischi repulcskwit id brakh quod rig ays lendv. Ia eet dekhschat ed to eet un nov sensation pro Valeria ios Rudh Keiwia. Iaghi na-sess ep id grem os sien sokwi, wa raptor, samt un docilitat quod habiet oistaunihn Zarallo, iom qui hieb reject iam kweitend-ye iam « un diablin antsalgus id saray os hayd ».
Conan lik aun mehne med ia blond ghayts ias meirka, kwecto wahid-ye kaurndo de sien lwon. Neter id skeleto pod iom, ni el monster hockt niter troubleer eys mento ni stup id interesse is ay dahsit.
Ia bfuyi movend okwi ias meirka, chehxend ia brems niter, aunstohgeer colorglois medsu id glend. Lit de fruits, taungh maurrudh globes hangend kata ia ozda uns dru quos plaut waraks hieb un besonters intense ed argwent glend spalv. Ia conscicit sien hungher ed sien teurst quayque senter ne hieb enfallt ay pre ia ghieb ia neti ghohd oistighes ghom id karwent promontur kay trehve jlampohn ed pitu.
* Niemos nehce ob hungher, ieyit ia. Maghmos ghende ta	fruits.
Conan spohcit quetro ia dik.
* Sei eddiemos sems, neti tehrbiemos id dehnken al	dragon, brohm is. Lit de quo i Kush Aydokwi kale « Derketas	Apels ». Derketa est ia Rayn im Mortus. Poh lyt ex id juce tos	fruit, we vehrs lyt ex id ep tien cuit, ed habsies mohrn pre	fineihvs nisturdes tod perwnt.
* Oh !
Ia pohd tsay do un consternat silence. Eet kwecto neid skapvia ex ir situation, mohn ia matam-ye. Ia ne vis quosmed ghehdient nehse menxu Conan tengicit interessen tik ab ays urand lendv ed ays ghaytplextis. Su-pit is mehne de un evasionsplan, is de sis transprehpe neid de to. 
* Sei giows tien hands kafi diu ud me kay glehme alnos	atopp tod perwnt, ieyit ia tun, vidsies semjec' quo siet surprindes	te.
Ia glaz iam daumwent-ye, dind obedih samt un plecten med sien staur omsa. Pos glehmus alnos atopp id karwento nadh, is oispohc dalgtro, epter id druakmen.
Is natieyc unte un khvil, still kam un bronzen statue ep un petra sockel.
* Est un fortifiet citad struct ex petra, neid dwoi de	to, murmurit is tun. Gwahsta tu tetro quando has piten expedihes me	kyid ripa ?
* Ho viden id jus' pre arrivist. Ne gnohsim ids existence	quando ho likwt Sukhmet.
* Quel habiet mohnt trehve un urb her ? Ne kehnso i	Stygians hant aiwo venturen tem dalgtro. Kwe habient aydokwa teuts	eregen un solg citad ? Dyehrco neid churd ep id plain, neid	trace os culture ed vido nimen move.
* Quosmed ghehdies tu vide to hol, ye tod distance ?	Sprohg ia.
Is plex ed se sis falle tsay ep id promontur.
* Ighi leuds qui weike in tod urb khakent zowngschie nos	khalasse taiper. Ed kad ne hehlpient nos esdi ghehdient. I weikers	iom aydokwen gaivias son' daydey hostile dia tarniens. Shayad nos	transbaurien' med ir lances...
Is interrup stayg ed natieyc, kamsei is habiet myohrst quo is eet saygend, ed brovit spehcend-ye ia scarlat globes argu bayna ia waraks.
* Med lancencutts ! Murmurit is. Kam imbecile som io	de ne mehnus de to auser ! To preuf' quo effect un jamile gwen	ep id intelligence uns wir.
* De quo tolcs tu ? Sprohg ia iom.
Aun antwehrde aysi question, is oistighit ghom tiel id warakzone ed spohc trans id. El ubsell monster eet hockt ender id, spehcend ub kyid karwent promontur samt id hol terrible patience im reptils. Kad oin elsen congenern hiebit spohcen oin eysen balmink atavs ye id sam weidos, iomschi nisedden atopp un perwntak, ye id mysterieus octent os menscgenos. Conan balstohm el aun yed se forirasce ed enderghensit sege ozda, regend sien brakhs kay kehrze ia bilkull prokwst id stamm. Ia srehtend ozda beswurgh el monster. El stieusit ep sien cloinpodia ed fiss id hava med sien hideuso swayp, behngend ia broutecks kamsei habiet liten de cians. Conan spohc el tadbir-ye ex id wangwl siens ok ed kun Valeria mohn el ogvi vahsit rusches iter protiev id perwnt, is Kimri stiup retro ed glohmber atopp id promontur med ia ozda is hieb just kohrzt. Eent tri, circa septa peds long stebs, payn teuger quem eys pallex. Is hieb kathalika sect plur longes os teun ed resistant wild vinyek. 
* Ozda pior teun pro buwes ia do lancenstolgs ed vinyeks	ne teuger quem stranghs, kauihsit is deikend-ye id brem ambh id	karwent promontur. Naiwo ghehdient tehle nies vyige... bet « unie	nerteiht ». To ee-saygent i aquilonian renegads ad nossmee	Kimris, quan eegwehment do ia clins kay lives un heir pro invade ir	vatan. Bet eekatuemos per clans ed teuts.
* Quod iblis to hol deil' con ta klaers ? Sprohg ia.
* Intizar ed ghapsies.
Is samdehsit ia klaers ed wogwnit id miech os sien khandjar ye oiter bors. Poskwo is periembh id hol med ia filises ed kun is hieb finihn, is behand un staur lance samt un solid septa peds long stolg.
* Kaytar ? Sprohg Valeria. Mi has saygen un lance	naiwo ghehdiet baure els squams...
* Els hol corpos ne es' squamcovohrn, antwohrd Conan. Est	meis quem oin weidos kay skehne un panther.
Pos dostighes ghom tiel id bors ios brem, is liv id lance ed sehsit delicate-ye id miecho do oin om Derketas Apels, ia maurrudh ghutts fallend ex id transbaurno fruit vers ab iom. Dind is oiswetraxit id miech ed dik ad Valeria id moder stal poik med maurrudh glois.
* Ne woidim an to sessiet sat, iey is. Es' kafi poison ep	tod kay gvehne un elephant, bet... Zowngschie vidsiemos !
Valeria stahsit za iom quan is sisit se stighes ghom inter ia ozda.Dehrjend id poidonen lance dalg ud se, is xyieng trans ia ozda ed prokielit el monster.
* Ma keuncs tu niter, tu melez bastard ex dubieus	parents ? Buit oin eysen decentsten questionen. Skau ghi tien	hideus muk iter, tu genis longcoll brute... nibo vols ke steigho	ghom kay kalce id ex tien illegitim spina ?
To ne stopit ter ed sems eysen interjections ghyanihr Valeria ays okwi plaut-ye, speit id profan education ia hiebit bruct bim marscursors. Ed to effexit kam wohlpt ep el monster. Kam ia aunstop gyaps uns kwaun irrite ed erghe sem ordinar-ye meis silent animals, id swehner voc uns mensc oisleurt un paurkhisses bi certain biestens ed un demential rage bi alyens. Stayg, samt un terrifiant syrat, el titanesk brute stieusit ep sien staur cloinpod, regend sien coll ed id reste siens corpos in un frenetic effort kay hihes tom kraghend pygmay quos cries oisturb id auwal silence os els awo rigo. 
Yed Conan hieb vohrtto precision-ye id distance. Ye takriban penk peds ender iom, id staur cap gwohl stayg per ia waraks samt un terrifiant blosk, bet in vain. Ed menxu els mustring muko ghyahsit tem plaut quem habiet kwohrtum tod uns mier serpent, Conan sehsit sien lance do id rudh wangwl skipt ab id apos ios ghyanu. Is plieg med id hol nerce om sien brakhs, dyehgwnd id krewos med id longo miech ios khandjar, tehrndo muscles ed osta.
Ia ghyanus zaghyahr instantan-ye clackend-ye, segend id triple doru ed quasi volveihnd Conan ud eys kurni. Is habiet fallen sei ia meirka apter iom ne habiet kapt iom per eyso yeusmen med un desperato geste. Is antgrip un karwent salswrnto trans ia waraks ed fried un dank ay gwenak.
Ye id nivell ios swol, el monster ambisroht kam un kwaun dakus piper do sien okwi. El eewiweipt sien capo bachimien ed eegighyant plaut sieno muk. Dind el pos oin om sien propods ep id stolg ios lance ed ghohd rehve id miech. El liv tsay sien cap med un gvaltic geste, samt meg platughyanen cruorspieund ghyanus, ed spohcit kyid topp ios perwnt samt un tem intense furor pleno med intelligence quem Valeria tremblit ob to ed exkardkieschit sien eins. Ia squams os els regv ed elsa flanks vireer ex un tarno brun do un aksterrudh. Bet horriblest buit od el monster rup sien silence. Ia cries qua sielg ta cruorsmeu ghyanus kwohkeer kam ta nal alyes terran creature. 
Samt braungh ed knarnd baubs, el ogvi rusch protiev id karwent promontur quod eet id citadell elsen peinds. Iter ed iter elso staur cap fiss ia ozda bet els ghyanus incontreer tik-ye kenos. El creature xubh-se protiev id perwnt samt tanto nerce quem id vibrit bundtos topptro. Staund ep sien cloinpodia, el siz id med sien propodia kam kwehriet unis mensc ed attaquit id base kamsei habiet liten de un dru.
Tod demonstration os auwal furor glohdj id sehrg in Valerias veines, bet isswo Conan eet pior prokwem id primitive pro khisses alyo quem un comprehensive interesse. Pro iom barbar, eet neid aungrund inter menscens kam iom ed animals, nekam Valerias ghabens. Pro Conan, el monster niter eet nel meis quem un gwitsforme quod differit ud eyso pre quant in eys physic forme. Al tribuit kweits samlik sienims ed vis in els furor tik un contrapart sienen wi grassabs, ed in els baubs ed mugeihsas id equivalent os quo is hieb katathematiset contra el. Ob is khiss un forme os gendeltat con vasyens gvers, pati ogvis, ei eet impossible kwahe id horror ed id disgust qua hieb hajoumen Valeria quando ia hieb viden id sieyve al creature. 
Is na-sess, spehcend-ye el sakwn-ye, pfehrstend kya different changes qua eent tyehcend in els baubs ed movs. 
* Id poison nawehrct, iey is med un assuret voc.
* Ne es mien mayn.
Pro Valeria, kwohk joking mehne od quodkwe substance, kamkwe katel, ghohd semkam effece ep tel ghyor ex muscles ed rage.
* Es' gvol in els voc, declarit Conan. In-kap eet mer-ye	erghen ob id acut edwoln in sien ghyanu. Nunkye kheisst el id	bittert os poison. Spehc ghi ! El vanct. Bihsiet blind pos oik	minutes. Quod tar hieb io sayct tib ?
El ogvi hieb just tituben ed kyopev-ye stohmben pre crasche do ia buska samt mier behngos.
* Est el mwaungsound ? Sprohg Valeria, bfuyow.
* El trehc' kyid bassin ! Iey Conan klaupend-ye,	samt iser menos ed parat ad age fauran. Id poison pohskweiht el.	Gwehm ! Bihsiet blind pos oin instants, yed dar ghehdsiet	retrehve sien itner tiel pod id perwn' dank sien odorat ed sei el	neus' nos ter ub, el na-seddsiet ter hina mehrt. Ed els congeners	ghehdient bihe attragen ab eld cries. Perodh !
* Nitro ? Sprohg Valeria, terrorisen.
* Weidwos ! Vahmos ghehde do id urb ! Kad nos	zanchousient ter, bet to es' nies saul chance. Kad incontresiemos	tusent alyen ogwis untitner, bet nehc nos es' garantiet sei manmos	her. Sei intizarmos hina mehrt, riskmos dehlge udwighes douzen elsen	congeners. Sehkwe me oku ! 
Is oistighit ghom id rampe tem jaldi quem un kiep, stopend tik-ye kay hehlpe sien sokwnia minter agil quem iom ed qua, hina ia vis iom Kimri drahe ghom, hieb fikern ses egal queikwe wir kay glehmber atopp ia takelages unios nav au un behrgsten.
Stigheer ghom do id temos sub ia ozda ed slid ghomtro silent, esdi Valeria eet convicen od ays kerdbats eent aurna meg dalgtos. Un swehner blosk om lameps ed gneurs ocolo id taungh teguto dik el ogvi pohsit ex id bassin.
* Yant els gwiwot bihsiet plen, el abgeirsiet, murmurit	Conan. Kad hors bihsient tohrpta pre id poison neict el... sei el	neict id.
Semloc trans id forest, id sol hiebit bi-sohncto kyid horizont. Id lays eet un mighelwent ed regwosto zone om kyehrsen skadhs ed deusk landspects. Conan grip Valerias runc ed slid apo id perwnt. Is kwohr minter blosko quem un brise blahnd inter ia drustamms, bet Valeria hieb id sentiment od ays urand bauts revelient ir fug vasyims forestweikers. 
* Ne mehno el ghehdt sehkwe prints, muticit Conan. Bet	sei wind al bringh' nies odor, el ghehdiet tun depulge nos.
* Mitra kwehrtu mae tod wind biblahe, kwohster Valeria.
Ays lige eet neid meis quem un pall oval in xep. Ia dier sien eins in sien leur hand, bet id contact ios hamand covohrnios med glend lieter ghohd tik khissihes iam sem achizia.
Eent dar ye sem distance ud id forestleizd kun i ieur cracks ed trahens apter i. Valeria dohnk sien lipps kay enderwaurge un crie.
* Nos ighnuet ! Murmurit ia med un lyut ton.
Conan scussit sien cap.
* Ne nos hat nust ep id perwnt ed nos paursc' kjiawxieng	in id forest, peitend repere nies odor. Gwehm ghi ! Es' nuntos	id urb au neid ! El ghehdiet exraudhe quodlib' dru quod	udsteighiemos. Eid wind mae biblaht...
Gwahr perodh silent hina ia drus inkiep skiderasce ant i. Za i, id forest eet un ocean ex impenetrable temos. Id titanesk cracken nabiht aurn, dat el ogvi stohmbh kyopev-ye in sien erratic paursken.
* En id plain face nos, kwohster Valeria. Dar lyt ed	wey...
* Crom ! Rughiet Conan.
* Mitra ! Murmurit Valeria.
Wind hieb just biblahn sudtos, udswehbhend i ed nakend id kyehrsen forest apter i. Un terrible baub tariegh instantan-ye id shienrlin. Ia aunaurdhen crackens ed ia trahens likw id place uni regular behngos dat el monster surrexit kam un hurcan, reuschend kyid stet quetos ghohd al id odor elsen peinds.
* Curr ! Mlu Conan med un brisant ton, sien okwi	flamboyant kam ta uns kapanen wolf. To es' quanto nos etileikwt	kwehre !
Nautbauts ne sont kwohrta pro un okudrahsa ed un pirate gwit ne est un gohdo training pro pedcurs. Pos begwahvs oik centens om stieups, Valeria kwohs ed ays gwayto hiebit bihn rhayr-yakin. Apter i, id trahen likwit place uni grohm dat el monster surrexit ex id enderbosc ed rusch ep id ouvert terrain.
Conans isern brakh king id lendv ias gwenak, ed is pwolieyrit iam. Ays peds toucheer payn id grundo menxu ia curs, pwolbohrt, ye un syrat ia habiet naiwo ghohden nake mon. Sei kwahient se behrge ud el monster unte sem wakt, kad tod gaddar wind vitourniet... bet id windo ne mutatrohc ed un oku glanez epter eys oms dik ad Conan od el monster hieb quasi navaxt i, reuschend kyi kam un galera puscen ab un hurcan. Is oismiss Valeria gontro, arkend-ye iam med uno nerce quod yis iam rolle ye decen stieupen kam un aunmov masse pod id prokwsto dru. Is Kimri abgir kay face el titan quel arrivit kyom samt grohmblosk.
Convicen od eys ajal hieb gwohmt, Conan ieg sekwent sien instinct ed se xubh seid kyid horrible muko quod gwohm prosch iom. Is klieup, plagend kam un beliwk, ed khissit sieno miecho dyehgwe deub ia squams qua protexeer id athime naster, dind un terrifiant impact yises iom ghomtro. Is rollit unte penkgimtia peden, fineihnd samt sect annem ed pwolmohrt. 
Quosmed is Kimri, extus, ghohd restahe, hatta is ne habiet sagven sayge. Yed eyso saul men eet pro iam gwenaku qua lyohg, storgnet ed aundefense, amalan ep id agmo tal demon se elanus ye akster gwayt. Hatta pre recuperevs sien annem, is ja stahsit uper iam, einsghesor.
Ia lyohg quer is hieb smitten iam, se strehngend ad sedde ub. Ia dents al creature ne hieb raght iam ed ia ne hieb esto traht. Nu-hieb un oms au un propod hurten Conan ed el blindis monster hieb nadrahn, myehrsend i praedds quim odor el hieb sohkwn in id staygo gvol siens agonia. Continuit curre samt un stohnterbehngos hin els cap criesch protiev un gigantesk stamm quod oistahsit in els agmo. Id impact exrieudh id dru ed sigwra etiwieurg id mazgh in tod dusformen muk. Dru ed monster fiell ghom sammel ed i dwo abstaunihn mensci vis ia ozda ed waraks bihe scutten ab ia convulsions al animal quel ia perbohrg ud ir vid... dind ia movs alnos chwoyeer.
Conan hohlp Valeria ad restahe ed bo apodrahr vankend-ye. Oik secundes sertes, i emers ep id plain, silent ed desert in id regwos.
Conan hielt unte un khvil ed glaz retro, kyid kyehrsen lays quod oistieu apter i. Neid warak movit, nel av pipit. Id forest hieb rebihn tem silent quem tienjien-ye.
* Gwehm, murmurit Conan ghendend-ye id hand as sien	sokwnia. Nunkye vaht to bihe riscat. Sei aiw alyi ogvis surrege ex	id shienrlin kay charge...
Ne buit necessar od is akapiet sien jumla.
Id urb kwohk meg piern, ye alter bors ios plain, dalger quem im hieb kwohken kun stahr ep id karwent promontur. Valerias tem eebeibat quem ay eekwehct pnehge. Ye cada aysen stieups, ia exspectit aure ia teguts cracke ed vide alyem coschmarcreature samt titanesk proportions surrege kay rusches kyi. Yed neid gwohm ad sturbes id silence iom teguts.
Pos id prest milium inter i ed id forest, biann Valeria kreins. Ayso joyeus natural swekwria lent-ye uperghohld. Id sol hieb eurohpen ed temos kowpit ep id plain, mulayim-ye beluct ab ia stars qua transformeer ia cactus do specters. 
* Neid peku, nia aghers, muticit Conan. Ep quod weuxe ti	leuds ?
* Kad parkent ir peku do stryngs nocts, suggestit	Valeria, ed kad ia aghers ed breds lyehge ocolo id urb.
* Possible, brohm is, bet ho viden nei pon id promontur.
Id meun wus apter id urb. Id kyehrsen masse iom walls ed tors wierdh in ids golden diutis. Valeria krus. Ambhreissend-se tem sombre-ye ender id meun, id mysterieuso citad anac un buxianxu ed rhayr-jasib aspect. 
Kad Conan hieb id sam sensation ob id oistahsit still, ambhspohc ed brohm : 
* Haltmos her. Est inutil arrive ant ia dwors nocts.	Shayad ne nos sinent endo. Eti,tehrbmos rahate ed ne woidam kam nos	vahn' primes. Pos oik hors swehpen, sessiemos fiter sei dehlgmos	katue we mwaungsoue.
Trohcit kyun bunge om cactus qua crohsc in circule, destull frequent phenomen in id suddesert, ed Valeria sohkwit iom. Is glub un ghyahsa med sien eins ed znyiec ad Valeria kem entrit.
* Her, sessiemos bohrct ud serpents, in quant fall.
Ia glaz beghspace-ye kyid kyehrsen ligne ios forest, ye takriban six milia. 
* Ed sei un ogvi surregiet ex id shienrlin ?
* Vahmos stahe wakht, antwohrd is, aun lakin suggeste quo	kwehrient in un solg eventualitat.
Is nastier ei citad, ye oik milia tetos. Neid luce blig ep ia tors ed spices. Mysterieus, kyehrsen ed titanesk masse, id stragn urb wierdh ant id mekhtabwaurn.
* Lyehg ghom ed swehp. Vahm stahe preter wakht.
Ia kung, spehcend iom med un rhayr-yakin protiokwo, yed is khayatsess unte id ghyahsa, facend id plain, sien eins posen ep sien grem, ed disvolgus ud iam. Aun nacommente, ia lyohgit ghom ep id sand eni id cactusghirsen circule. 
* Protiebeud me quan id meun sessiet ye sien apogee, iom	sprohg ia.
Is neter spohc iam, ni antwohrd ay. Id sensto ject ia vis, menxu ia sohnk do swehpen, buit eys muscleus gastalt, still kam un bronzen statue, quos ambhriss wierdh ant ia stars hangend ghem in id waurn. 
II
In id arg iom ogwnjoyels
Valeria gohrit spreudend-ye, vighabend od un greis octent oisnohg ep id plain. Ia sess ghneihnd-ye sien okwi. Conan eet hockt nieb ia cactus ; is segit ir teug pirs quom gloghs is wul dexios.
* Ne me has protiebuden, accusit ia iom. Me has sisen	swehpe unte id hol noct !
* Ees strak, antwohrd is. Ed tien cloins solleer ses	gvolend, pos tod long reiden. Yusmee pirates ne swehde mane ep	seddel.
* Ed tu ? Jawieb ia.
* Ho es' kosak pre ses pirate, antwohrd is.	Gwivent ep ir seddel. Ho cort swehpens, kam un panther quel intizar'	prokwem id drayl kem un lopatar pridraht. Mien aurs stahnt wakh'	menxu mien okwi swehpe.
Effective-ye kwohk is buland barbar tem rahatus quem sei is habiet swohpt unte un hol noct ep un deluxe crovat. Giowus ia gloghs ed leupus id rug rind, is schohnk ay gwenak un teug fel ex meg swekwost cactuspir.
* Pardehnk tod pir. Est id scharab ed id pitu uns	desertweiker. Eem prevs' member im Zuagirs... desertmenscen qui	weuxe ep id plunder om caravans.
* Kwe est semjec' has naiw est ? Sprohg ia bent,	pwolgoilisk pwolfascinet.
* Ho naiw esen roy uns hyborian rig, fras is ghendend-ye	un enorm bukat cactus, bet hatta tod mi hat wakyen drehme bihe. Kad	sessiem tod semdien. Ma ne ?
Ia scussit sien cap, hayran ant eyso sakwn boltia, ed enderghens praedde sien pir. Ia ne pohnd id fruito desamat in sien geusmen ed id pohld med un fresch ed teustgwenend juce. Pos zachifanus, Conan tiersit sien hands in id sand, stieu tsay, passit sien finghers do sien teug sword kaysar, adjustit sien belt ed declarit bad :
* Gohd, smad gwahe. Su-solle i weikers tos urb tehme nies	gurgules, ke de kwehrnt to nun, pre id gvrens auct.
Eys macabre humor ne eet iskwt, bet Valeria sieyg sib kad eys lafza vahr obkwehke prophetic. Iaschi adjustit sien yeusmen, pos oistahvs ub. Ia terrors qua hieb hajoumt iam perncti hieb disprohpen. Ia ghieng perodh nieb iom Kimri destull mokan-ye. Quakwe bih ia periles qua waiteer i, protie menscens katuient. Ed Valeria ios Rudh Keiwia hieb naiw incontret oin wir qui bayiet iam.
Conan prichohx iam menxu ia ghiengit nieb iom ed rul sien ample greddstieups ep eysa.
* Ghancs meis ye id weidos uns clinmensc quem uns naut,	iey is. Solls ses aquilonian. Ia sols os Darfar han' naiwo brunen	tien blank cuit. Mult princesses te jalousient.
* Gwehmo ex Aquilonia.
Eys compliments neti irriteer iam. Id evident admiration is khiss dia iam plaisit iam. Sei alyo wir quem is habiet oistahn wakht menxu ia swohp, ia habiet esen furieus ob to ; ia hieb reagen semper ye meg violent weidos ielgs kun un wir pit protege we defende iam tik ob ia eet un gwen. Bet ia pohnd un secret plaisure in id fact od so wir kwohr to. Ed is ne hiebit brugen ays terror ni id stand os sliebe quod hieb resulten ex id. Final-ye, iey-sib ia, ays sokwi ne eet un wir kam alters.
Id sol wus apter id urb, spalvend ia tors med un buxianxu rudh.
* Sword in mekhtab perncti, brohm Conan, sien okwi	sombrihn ab ia abyssal superstitions im barbars, cruorrudh kam ka	signe os tehrgen sub id octentsol. Ne kam tod urb.
I gwohm dar proscher ed Conan kauih pau pos od neid strad lit nordtos kyid citad.
* Buit naiwo peku cid-mo, iey is. Plughs ne hant aren id	ardh pon yars, hatta maghses secules. Yed spehc : prevst, tod	plain eet cultiven.
Valeria dyohrc ia prever yavias is ay dik, pwolstuppen stet-ye ed lahn ab cactus. Ia brovit, perplex, ed sammel ambhspohc id plain quod oistrohc hol perambh id citad tiel id leizdo ios deusk forest quod king id ed oistabh visum dalger. 
Ia spohc id urb, bfuyi. Neid helm, neid lancepuladho twis ep ia walls. Neid trompette swohn, nel straj emiss warnen. Un silence tem absolut quem quo regnit in id forest covohr ia murs ed minaras.
Id sol eet hog uper id horizont kun i niek id mier portal ios nordmur, in id skadh uns alt wall. Rust lahsit id isern aneta ios colossal aysen dwor. Teug arankia luc ep ia mifussals, plabs ed perchint panells.
* Tod portal ne hat es' ghyan' pon yars ! Exclamit	Valeria.
* Un mortu wastu, brohm Conan. Itak ia yavias eent brohct	ed id plain squalid.
* Bet quel hat construct id ? Quel wik her ?	Quetro ed ma hant i likwn id ?
* Quel woid ? Kad un grupp em exilen Stygians hat	construgen id. Lakin no ; to ne kwehc' kam stygian	architecture. We kad buir exterminen ab peinds, we nicen ab un	epidemia ?
* In tod fall, kad ir kleis nakwahn' duil ed arankia,	suggestit Valeria (Ia rapace instincts os ays profession sbud in iam	bet ia eetschi isnahn ab sien ster curiositat). Kwe ghehdmos ghyane	tod portal ? Smad entre ed lyt explore.
Conan chohx id gwaur portal med uno maschkouk protiokwo, lakin posit siena massive omsa protie tod ed puscit med id hol nerce om sien saurs ed sien staur bemerns. Samt cracks ed knars om berusten mifussals, ghyahsit id portalo lent-ye intro. Conan stieusit ub ed exkardkieschit sien eins. Valeria spohc epter id oms os sieno sokwi ed mlusit un taajub.
Nu-ananc-se im neter un strad ni un dworisghehrd, kam habiet maghen bihe exspectet. Id portal, yed lit in cid fall anter de un dwer, eet id waust uns long ed vast galeria quod se forlit tiel vidleus, bihnd indistincto dalgi. Ids proportions eent titanesk. Id swol eet ex un curieus rudh petra, glupto do quadrat flises, ed quod rudher kamsei id reflegiet id diutis uns ogwn. Ia murs eent composen ex un glend ed argu substance.
* Jade, sons' som Schemi ! Rughiet Conan.
* Ne in solg wakel ! Protestit Valeria.
* Ho plundert kafi caravans gwohmt ex Khitay kay woide de	quo tolko, sigwrit is. Toghi est jade !
Id wonk tect eet ex lazuward ed gjiaungsianen samt mier glend petras qua luc samt un iadic arg.
* Glend ogwnpetras, brohm Conan. I Puntweikers kale ia	katha. Leitwer' de ia petrifiet okwi tim prehistoric serpents i awi	kiel « Golden Serpents ». Bleigent in temos kam catokwi.	In plen noct, beleucient tod galerie, bet id luce esiet iblis	stragn. Smad gwahe glanzes. Kad vahmos incontre un cache plen med	joyels.
* Zaghyan id dwor, ei riedh Valeria. Detestiem tehrbe	uddistance un ogvi unte tod galerie.
Conano smihsit ed antwohrd :
* Ne credeihm ogvis aiwo salge id forest.
Is kwohr lakin quo ia sib hieb udprohct ud iom ed is ay dik id brohct perchin ep id intropan.
* Mighi hieb kwohct aurus semjec' cracke quando ho	protiepuscen id dwor. Tod perchin hat jus' brohgen. Sei i weikers	han' mwaungsoun, tun quosmed hat id esen possible od id dwor buit	perchint intos ?
* Hant aundwoi likwn unte alyo dwer, suggestit Valeria.
Ia dieum quayt secules eededohneer pon diewo hiebit penetren ye id senst ker id mier galerie ex id ghyanen portal. Diewo filtrit semkam do id galeria ed i aunstohg jaldi quosmed. Alnos atopp id wonk tavan eent dyohrct sortes om luckerns, quom schibs eent compost ex sem cristallin substance. In ia skadhglois qua separeer ia luckerns, ia glend joyels twis kam ia okwi em grasban cats. Sub ia peds em bo intrus, id swol kwecto se gwenmien samt un tarn ed sombre arg, ed bfuyi changend colors ed nuances. Eet kamsei trehdient haydswol sub id tweisen om malefic stars. 
Tri superpost galeries lit ambi id mier central galerie. 
* Un trietage dom, brohm Conan, ed tod galerie leit tiel	id tavan. Estschi tem long quem un strad. Ho id pondos os vide un	portal ye alter bors.
Valeria plex med sien kwit omsa.
* Tun has gohder okwi quem ego, yed sayge i marscursors	od ho un nafiz vid.
I ghyien un dwer kjiawxieng ed tohr un succession tuichen kyals, quom swol eet identic tei ios central galerie, ed ia murs eent auter ex id sam glend jade, au ex marmor, ivor au khalcedon, ed ornen med frises ex bronze, gold au argwrnt. Ia glend ogwnpetras eent gjiaungsiant in ia tavans ed ir luce eet tem spectral ed stragno quem Conan hiebit presaygen. I intrus ghieng perodh kam kabus, madhen in tod guway diutis.
Sems iom kyals ne eent beluct ed ir soyl kwohk tem kyehrsen quem id entrat uns haydtehom.Conan ed Valeria vergihr ia ed begranceer ir exploration ibs belucen kyals.
Arankia covohr ia cotlans vasyen kyals, bet id swol ne eet besonters duilic, ne meis quem ia tables ed ia stols ex marmor, jade au carniolin samt qua eent meublen. I trohv cer ed ter kelims ex tod Khitay silko quod est amalan inalterable. I vis fensters ye neid moment, ni hatta dwers ducend uni strad au uni ghehrd. Lit systematic-ye de alyo kyal au alyo dikhliz.
* Quosmed tar ne incontrems un strad ? Brohm	Valeria. Tod stet, quodkwe bih tod loc quer wehsmos, sollt ses dar	mierer quem id saray ios roy os Turan.
* Sigwra ne nohceer ob un epidemia, iey Conan, mimehnend	de id mysteir tos desert citad. Sonst habiemos trohven skeleta. Kad	hat id biht hantet ed quanti hant gohrn semaghyern ed diswarpen.	Maghses...
* Do hayd tien maghses, iom interrup aun manier Valeria.	Naiwo woidsiemos. Spehc ta frises. Skaun' menscens. Bayghen' qualg	race ?
Conan chohx i prokwtos ed scussit sien cap.
* Ho naiwo viden leuds qui samkwehke exact-ye to, bet est	semject oriental in i... Vendhya maghses au tun Kosala.
* Has tu esen roy os Kosala ? Sprohg ia iom, maskend	sien akster curiositat med derision.
* No, bet ho est korion im Afghulis qui gwive in ia	himelian ghors qua uperhange Vendhyas grances ed qui service i	Kosalans. Bet ma gwahient Kosalans construge un urb tem dalg westi ?
I kipti persons eent minc wirs ed gwens, samt esmer cuit, exotic ed fayn-ye ambhrissta traits. I vohs legv rogvs ed multa tesedins. Ia scenes oiskieur i ye pleist kers drehnkend ed mejend, dansend we habend sexe.
* Tighi son' druve-ye Orientals ! Brohm Conan, bet	ne woidim quetos exact-ye. In quant fall solleer age un gwit uns	abject sakwnia, sonst habiemos viden scenes om weir ed katu. Smad	stighes ub tod drab.
Un ivoren spiraldrab lit ub, ducend ibs etages uper id kyal in-yod i wohs. I bestigh tri successive gastieups ed arriveer do un kielken ios trit etage, quod kwecto eet id altst nivell ios imara. Luckerns in id tavan beluc id kyal, ed ia ogwngemmes twiseer samt pall inikas in tod luce. Glanzend apter ia dwers, i dyohrc wisu ploisko oin gon un serie om kyals beluct ye id sam weidos. Id sensto dwer duxit uni balustrade galerie quod uperkihsit un dikhliz om dimensions meg modester quem id central galerie ios grundetage. 
* Hayd ! Rughiet Valeria seddend-ye ghom ep un jaden	benk. I leuds qui hant likwn id urb hant sollen todribhes ir quan'	kuzda con se. Io bactisse passe ex uter tuich kyal do alyo	kjiawxieng.
* Vasya kyals ios uber nivell kwehke beluct, iey Conan.	Kamiem druve-ye ke maghmos trehve un fenster quod uperkeiht id urb.	Smad glanzes apter tod dwer, ter ub.
* Tu, gwah tetro. Ego vahm mane her ed lyt rahate.
Conan disprohp apter id dwer quod facit quod duxit ei galerie. Valeria supih-se ep id benk, samt hands crucen apter sien cap, ed rexit sien bauten jambs ant se. Ta silent kyals ed ta dikhliz samt ira grwozdus om lamper glenda gemmes ed ir kirmiz demped inkiep depremes iam. Ia spehsit vahr mox-ye salge tod meirong eni-yod i hieb-se forghangen kay bad incontre un strad. Ia dieum vagh-ye qualg maur ninpeds hieb aiwo trohden tod flamboyant swol, quayt crueltatagsa ed mysteirs ta tweiser gemmes pact ei tavan hieb prispohct.
Nu-iam-rohv uno mulayim blosk ex ays reflexions. Ia stahsit, einsghesor, hatta pre ghabus quo hieb sturpt iam. Conano ne hieb riken ed ia wois ne eet is quom ia hieb aurt. 
Id swon hieb gwohmt semtos trans id dwer quod duxit ei galerie. Ia snohg do tod direction, kwehrnda neid blosk in sien bauts ex urand lieter, arrivit ep id balcon ed glaz niter inter ia gwaur balustrades. 
Un wir ninstohmbh unte id dikhliz.
Id fact os vide uno mensc in tod urb ia credih desert buit un druv schock. Hocken apter ia petralankans, sien quanta muscles tenden, Valeria luurit id ninsilhouette.
Is wir nel-ye samkwohk i persons kipt ep ia frises. Is eet mulayim-ye bulander quem id mutawassit ed eys cuit eet meg maur aun yed ses aydowko. Is eet nogwo ploisko uno legv silken lendvkatan quod perbohrg in part eys robust hinks ed un lietern yeusmen tem weur quem un hand, kingend eys teun lendv. Eys sword ed longo kayso hiengit ka platt fitils ep eysa omsa, ei confernd un wild aspect. Is eet lagar. Ia gneubhs ed snayus os eys muscles oistohlb ud eys brakhs ed jambs, bet aun tod krewospehlden quod daht un harmonieuso symmetria ei silhouette. Is eet construct samt un sparmenos quod bihsit quasi repulsive.
Ne tant eys physic apparence quem eys attitude impress iam gwen qua observit iom. Is ghieng perodh ye uno ningwayt, pwolendersess ghom, wehrtend sie, cap kyuter gon dind kyalter. Is dier un weurak miech in sien dexter hand, ed ia vis iom trehse sub id cutt uns intense emotion. Is hiebit paur ed tremblit, praedd unios nesayget terror. Kun is wohrt sien cap, ia dyohrc id flamme eysen gver okwi inter ia sword viels os eys kayso stern ep eys cap. 
Is ne vis iam. Is oisnohg ep pedak ocolo id dikhliz ed disprohp unte un ghyanen dwer. Oin instant serter, ia ieur un stump crie, dind silence regwohm.
Praedden ab curiositat, Valeria snohg engwn id galerie hina ia ghohd face un dwer stahnd exact-ye uper tod unte-yod is wir hieb just gwahn. Tod duxit alyi galerie, minter vast, quod begir un vast kyal. 
Id kyal lyohg ye id senst etage, bet idso tavano ne eet tem alt quem in id uder dikhliz. Id eet belucto tik ab ia ogwnpetras, ed id subglend ed guway arg likw in temos ia rewsa sub id circular balcon.
Valerias okwi pfwohng. Is wir ia hieb dyohrcto dar wohs in id kyal.
Is lyohg, face protie swol, ep uno mier purpwr kelim medsu id kyal. Eys corpos eet inert, eys brakhs ghongen platu. Eyso skambmiech einso lyohg nieb iom. 
Ia dieumit ma is remien ithan still. Dind ays okwi schrohnkeer kun ia spohc id kelim ep-yod is wir lyohg. Sub eys corpos ed hol perambh iom, id kelim hieb un different spalv, un richer ed profunder rudh.
Kreusend mulayim-ye, ia se ahockit lyt meis apter id balustrade, scrutend med megst attention ia skadhs sub id circular galerie. Reveleer neid secret. 
Stayg, un nov silhouette prohp do tod buxianxu drame. Un wir, qui samkwohk in mult points preter, entrit unte un dwer quod facit quod duxit ei dikhliz.
Eys okwi illumineer-se kun is vis iom wir lyehge ep id swol, ed is sieyg semject ye un saccadat ton, quod swohn kam « Chicmec ! ». Alter ne movit. 
Is wir stiupit perodh in id kyal, siz id corpos per ids omsa ed periwohrt id. Is sis uno pnicto crie skape kun id cap retrofiell moll-ye, revelend id gurgule tohmt ex uter aur do alter. 
Is wir sis id nayv nifalle ep id cruorpoiko kelim ed klieup ep sien peds, peritremblend. Eys lige eet praedd os terror. Bet menxu is flex uter genu ed se pariet ad mwaungsoue, is oistohv stayg, bihndo tem still quem un statue, scrutend alter bors ios kyal med distarnd okwi. 
In ia skadhs qua regneer ender id circular balcon, un spectralo luce biluc ed bicrohsc, un luce quod ne emanit ex ia ogwnpetras. Valeria khissit sien kays ghehrse ep sien cap menxu ia spohc ; ar, muzlim-ye visible in tod palpitant diutis, eet dyohrcen uno menscghalv ed nu-emanit id spectralo luce ex tod mensc, yed horrible-ye dusformet, ghalv. Id hieng in id hava kam un desincarnen cap, kyuken ex noct ed temos, bihndo stets-ye distincter... mensclik, ed quod ne bieygh lakin id menscgenos kam Valeria gnohsit id.
Is wir stahsit still, incarnation ios paralysant horror, starnd ei apparition. Id ject swohbh dalger ud id mur ed un grotesk skadh hamrahsit id. Lent-ye, tod skadh bihsit visible, wardhend do un silhouette samt menscambhrissa, quos bare torso ed brakhs luc med id subalbh arg idsen blaychen osten. Id lagar ghalv ep ids omsa fras med sien tuich oktorms, perambhen ab un kafir halo. Is wir face id kwohk achiz os zaspehce id. Is remien still, sien eins hangend moll-ye inter sien inert finghers, ed is hieb wajkh eet tod uns wir lambht ab ia nets uns hypnotiser.
Valeria ghieb ne eet tik paur quod paralysit iom wir. Sem diabolic suedos tos palpitantios diutis hiebit beghsiht iom eys imkan om aume ed age. Iaswo, in salvtat ed spehcend id scene ubtos, khiss id subtile impact unios nenamim emanation quod tohrg ays raison. 
Id horror stohmbh kye sien victim. Is wir bad movit, bet to buit kay sines oiskape eys eins ed falle ep eysa genus, tegend eys okwi med eys hands. Aun sayge werd, is exspectit od plagiet id miech quod blig tuntos uper iom in id hand ios apparition, kam id Mohrto triumphend uper menscgenos.
Valeria ieg sekwent id prest impulse os sien rebell buhsa. Med un tighrinsmov klieup ia epter id balustrade ed se sis falle ep id grund apter id buxianxu apparition. Tod pivotit epstet aurnd-ye id stump schock iom bauts qua hurt id swol, bet kun id vols, id srakut miech ias gwenak plieg, ed un gver exaltation lahsit Valeria kun ia khiss id khar siens weben tehme mensckrewos ed solid osta.
Id apparition emiss uno pnigen crie ed collapsit ghomi, samt segen oms, sternum ed weragmen. Ed kun id pohd ghom, id ogwnghalv rollit gontro, revelend un zazzer os oisternen kays ed uno maurcuit lige dusformen ob nehcpaytten. Sub tod horrible mascarade tup un ensan, un wir qui samkwohk tom nagenuend, prostren. 
So hiebit spohct ub aurnd-ye id cutt ed id crie quod hieb sohkwt, ed is distier tuntos incredule-ye ay blanki gwenaki qua stahsit uper id cadaver, dehrjend un cruorsmeu eins.
Is difficultat-ye stieusit ub ed bisnietter kamsei quo is hieb just viden habiet quasi kwehlpihn eys aum. Ia stieun de constate ia pretit iom, isghi wohkw in stygian, esdi tod dialect ne ay eet familiar.
* Qua ste ? Quetos yu ? Quod kwehrte yu in	Xuchotl ? (dind, unte id sam elan, aun hatta ay linkwes wakto	kay antwehrde:) Bet ste un prientin... diva au diablun, to changet	neid ! Yu habte nict id Ardent Ghalv ! Eet tik un wir	apter id mask, final-ye ! Wey mohn od lit de un demon i kyuk ex	ia catacombes ! Kleute !
Is interrup in sien deliria ed oistohv, akowsiend samt un quasi gvolic intensitat. Ia meirka ieur quasi neid.
* Dehlgmos spehde ! Murmurit is. Sont wester quem id	Mier Dikhliz ! Kad nos kernent ! Kad hatta nos perambhent	proscher pre rusches ep nos nunkye !
Is siz ays runco med un gvaltic fangho quetos ay molicit se fortrage.
* Qui « i » ? sprohg ia.
Is iam spohc aun ghabe unte oik secundes, kamsei is pehndiet ays ignorance rhayr-fahamim.
* I ? Balbiel is vagh-ye. Bet, vedim, ti os	Xotalanc ! Id clan ios wir yu habte nict. Qui weike prokwem id	Eustdwor.
* Mayns tod urb est habitet ? Exclamit ia.
* Ya, ya ! (Is kriemp ob impatience, lambhen ab	paur) Smad abgwahe hetos ! Gwehmte ! Oku ! Dehlgmos	rikes Tecuhltli !
* Ed quer est tod ? Sprohg ia.
* Id quartier prokwem id Westdwor !
Is hieb iter sizen aysc runc ed traxit kyid dwer unte-yod is hieb entren. Taungh swoidghutts perleer ep eys maur chol ed eys okwi blig ob terror. 
* Skehpt oin minute ! Brohm ia, arkend brusk-ye eys	hand. Giowte tien hands ex me, sons' findo tien ghalv. Quod est tod	storia ? Quis es tu ? Ed quetro me ducskws ? 
Is kwohr uno mier effort ed rewieldh-se, glanzend-ye bachimien sokar-ye, dind is bitolkit tem jaldi quem eys werds oistus protie mutu.
* Mien nam est Techotl. Som ex Tecuhltli. Ego ed is wir	qui lyehc' samt tohm' gurgule hams gwohmen do ia Dikhliz os Silence	kay pites embuskes oik Xotalancas. Bet hams lusen mutu ud vid ed	quando ho riken hetro, ho trohven iom samt tohm' gurgule. Id Ardent	Ghalv est massoul, to woidim, ed id me habiet nicen sei yu ne	habiete nigvohnen id. Bet kad id ne eet alnos saul. Kad hant alyi	snohgen pon Xotalanc ! Iswo divs bleide ant id beurt i assigne	tim qui i kapen' gwiv !
Mehnend de to, is krus kamsei bihiet lambhen ab feber ed eys maur cuit emsit un aschlik spalv. Valeria brovit ed spohc iom, protiebudt. Ia prekhiss eet semjecto ghabtu in tod hol rabiabahsa, betye tod moment, to ay ne enfiell.
Ia vols kyid ghalv, quod blig ed pulsiet dar ep id swol. Ia vahsit touche id tadbir-ye med id borso siens baut kun so Techotlo klieupit perodh emittend-ye un crie.
* Mae touchet id ! Mae hatta spehcte id !	Follia ed nehc weike id. I brukhs os Xotalanc gnohnt eys secret...	Hant trohft id in ia catacombes, quer lyehge ia osta iom terrible	roys quoy hant regnet ep Xuchotl in id druna iom kyehrsen secules os	prev. Dyies id glehdjt id sehrg ed gveiht id kers es quel ne ghapt	id mysteir id arehct. Touche id seuwt follia ed perneicen.
Ia brovit ed spohc iom med uno maschkouk protiokwo. Is wir ne eet besonters rassurant, samt sien gneubhic ed lagar carcasse, ed sien stip ed oistert kays. In id budmen eysen okwi, apter id terror diutis, blig un stragno luce ia hieb naiwo bad vis in ia okwi unios mentsaun wir. Yed, is kwohk sincere in sien protesta. 
* Gwehmte ! Iam implorit is, peitend sizes ays hand,	poskwo mutamaynend kun is mohm sien warnen. Ste un gospotnia.	Quosmed yu habte arrivet hetro, ne sagviem sayge, bet sei yu esiete	un diva au un demon gwohm' hetro kay hehlpe Tecuhltli, yu gnohiete	ja ta quan' jects de qua yu me habte sprohgen. Yu sollte arrive ud	trans id mier forest, quetos nies atavia gwohm. Bet yu ste nies	prientin, sonst yu ne habiete gvohnen mien peind. Gwehmte !	Oku, pre i Xotalancas nos trehve her ed nos neice !
Diswehrtend sien okwi ud eys repulsive ed fervordribht lige, ia spohc id buxianxu ghalv quod dum ed luc ep id grund, prokwem id cadaver alyios wir. To samkwohk un ghalvo viden in drehm, indenegable-ye mensclik, yed anancend subtile dusformations in ids ambhriss. Unte sien jumiung, quel hieb haben solgo ghalv sollit habe un stragn ed mustring aspect. Gwiv ? Id kwecto xihsit un sorte os gwit quod ei eet wi. Ids ghyanus ghyahr ye id sam moment, dind zaghyahr clackend-ye. Ids arg bihsit meis akster, meis bleigu, yed id sensation os coschmaro crohscit kathalika ; eet un sogn ; hol gwit eet neid meis quem un sogn... Nu-rohv id hirsic voc os Techotl Valeria ex ia temosta tehoms kye-ya sa driv. 
* Mae spehcte id ghalv ! Mae spehcte id ghalv !
Id voc ay ghohdit dalgtos, ex trans aunpotem tehoms.
Valeria se scuss kam un lion quel scutt sien griva. Ays vision kwiter. Techotl eet snatternd :
* Ye sien jumiung, tod ghalv arohg id terrible kers uns	roy im magicians ! Naarehct id gwit ed id ogwn os magia, rohven	ex ia uder rewsa !
Valeria emiss un rughat ed klieup med id agilitat uns panther, ed id ghalv buit tun bohngen do flamboyant fragments kun ays miech plieg samt nerce. Ex semloc in id kyal, au in id kenos, autah in id deusk anun os ays conscience, uno nemensc voc emiss un crie om rage ed gvol.
Id hand os Techotlo traxit ays brakh ed is oisnietter iter :
* Yu habte brohct id ! Yu habte destruct id !	Hatta vasya kyehrsen arts os Xotalanc ne sagvient reconstitue id !	Smad abgwahe ! Smad abgwahe oku nun !
* Bet ne magho abgwahe, protestit ia. Ho un prien' qui	wehst semloc nedalg hetos...
Id flamme quod gwohl ex id budmen iom okwi os Techotl interrupit brusk-ye Valeria : is oispohc apter iam, fujatan horrifien. Ia pivotit epstet ed vis quar wirs rusches, ielg entrend unte ein different dwer, convergend kyi, medsu id kyal.
Eent identic tibs quens ia hieb ja viden, samt ia sama gneubhic muscles stehlbend ep sonst lagar memsa, id sam blousword kayso stern ep ir cap, id sam diutis os dementia in id budmen iren mier okwi. Eent armet ed dun kam Techotl, bet un albh ghalv eet pict ep ielgs torso. 
Buit neid endemeur ni ensein. Kam cruorlasni tighers, Xotalancs wirs klieup kya gurgules iren peinds. Techotl rusch kyens samt desperationsfuror, exclihnend id treiccruce uns weurmiech eins, ed siz id corpos os sien hajoumer ; is supih iom ghomtro, quer rolleer ed katuer in un silence os mohrt.
Ia nic iom prest qui arrivit ye ays prayghest pre is ghehdiet plage, id miech os ays long eins findend eys ghalv menxu is sa-plieg med sieno. Ia skiend gontro kay vergihes un estocade ed sammel parit un cutt. Ays okwi diens ed ays lipps kohmb do uno mildetmaflouk smeih. Ia hieb rebihn Valeria ios Rudh Keiwia, ed id drohn os ays miech eet kam uno nuptial songv aysims aurs.
Ays eins uddohl id lambhel unios miech quod tentit pare ays attaque ed dub unte six incha do id literprotegen gventer tos qui ghesorit id. Is wir emiss un gvolcrie ed fiell ep sien genus, bet eys buland sokwi se interposit samt un lyut silence, beibeirnd cutt pos cutt samt solg furor Valeria quem nel-ye ghohd contre ia attaques. Ia stiup retro tawrlien-ye, parend ia cutts, waitend id waurmen os dyehgwe id corpos os sien peindo med sieno miech. Is khakiet seuyihes med diu sien staldewer. Eys brakho strakasciet, viauiet annem ; is oislaberiet, committiet un fault, ed tun Valerias miecho deubiet mon do eys kerd. Glanzend gontro, ia dyohrc Techotl, genuend ep id torso os eys peind, se strehngend ad lures eys runc ex id fangh senters ed ad dyehgwe eys corpos med sien khandjar. 
Swoid perlit ep id chol ios hajoumer ias pirate ed eys okwi samkwohk geuls. Makar is plieg med sien hol force, is neter ghohdit drughes ni uddehle id exclihen ias gwenak. Eys annem bikwohs, eys cutts biluseer sem precision. Ia stiup retro kay attrage iom kye se... ed khissit sien bemerns sohrt kam in uno mengain. Ia hieb myohrsen iom wir qui lyohg vurnt ep id swol.
Ia eet genuend ed hiebit passe sien dwo brakhs ambh aysa jambs in un stalen fangh ; eyso driugo grokit ob triumph ed bimaneuvrit kay attaque iam gwenak levtos. Valeria kriemp ed se strubh, in vain. Ia proe-ghehdiet se lures ex tod mengain beirnd-ye med sieno miech, bet ye tod instant id simitar ios buland jenchi behngiet ays ghalv. Is vurnt bidohnk ays nogwod bemern kam un gver. Ia clin sien levter hand ed siz id longo crinar ios wir, tragend eys cap retro hin eys albh dents ed forstehlbend okwi buir lift kyam. Ia parit kyopev-ye id cutt ed id denwrnt aysios miech gwohm ad hurtes ays wi cap, gwehlihes bliutes ant ays okwi. Ia vienk. Id eins os ays duschman lud iter, ed is emiss un stump ed bestial triumph crie... ed ye tod moment wierdh un gigantesk gastalt apter iom Xotalanca ed stal spru kam uno moder arg. Id crie ios jenchi brohg nett ed is collapsit ghomtro, nigvohnen kam un auxan sub id pelk, sieno mazgho gwehlend ex sien ghalvo fisden tiel gurgule.
* Conan ! Kwohs Valeria (Samt un torrent os rage ia	vols kyom Xotalanca quos long kayso ia dar dohrj in sien levter	hand) Haydkwaun !
Ayso miecho stris per id air, unte un arco quod pohd ye midpleuk, ed id zanchout cadaver collapsit moll-ye samt cruorgheuss. Ia xubh id tohmt cap ocolo id kyal.
* Quod iblis jinkdout her ? Iey Conan jambend-ye id	cadaver ios wir is hieb just nicen, einsghesor, ed ambhspehcend samt	un staunend protiokwo.
Techotl restieusit uper id convuls forme ios senstios Xotalanca, chassend ia cruorghutts ex sien daga. Id vurnos ep eys bemern sohrg. Is oispohcit Conan med pfwohnct okwi.
* Quod jinkdout ? Sprohg iter Conan, dar surpriden	de trehvus Valeria in un gver boi protie tens fantastic creatures in	un citad is hieb credihn abandont ed desert.
Reikend ex sien exploration pos venturevs towsraen do ia kyals ios uber etage, is hieb constaten Valeria neti eet in id sall quer is hieb likwn iam ed is hieb trohcto kyid surce iom katublosken is hieb staunen de aure.
* Penk mortu kwauns ! Exclamit Techotl, un terrible	exaltation schimmernd in id budmen sienen flamboyant okwi. Penk	nicens ! Penk scarlat gwozda pro id sword colunn ! I	cruordivs bihntu danct !
Is liv meg hog sien kreusend hands dind, samt un demoniak lige, spiusit ep ia cadavers ed kielc ir liges, pleinsend in sien repugnant joy. Eys nov allieits oispohc iom samt staunos ed Conan sprohg in aquilonian :
* Quis est so foll ?
Valeria plex.
* Is sayct eys nam est Techotl. Sei credeihm eys deliran'	lafza, eys folk gwivit ye uter bors tos demential urb ed toy ye	alter bors. Kad nos esiet sislew abgwahe con iom. Is kwehc'	prientlik ed es' facil vide to ne est id fall alters clan.
Techotl hieb interrupen sien dans ed ieur iter, sien cap cliht gontro kam un kwaun, id medvia os triumph katuend protie paur ep sien repugnant lige. 
* Smad abgwahe nun ! Murmurit is. Hams kwohrn kafi !	Penk mortu kwauns ! Mien folk vos kwehrsiet un megil preimen !	Vos honoresient ! Bet gwehmte ! Tecuhtli es' dalg hetos. I	Xotalancas maghien' nos attaque ye cada moment in numer pior	important hatta pro vies einsa.
* Te sehkwmos, brohm Conan. 
Techotl bestigh fauran un drab quod duxit ei galerie, znieyc im ke iom sehkwient, quo i kwohr, apterpersnend iom perodh jaldi. Ghohdt do id galerie, is elien-se unte un dwer quod ghyahsit westtro ed spohd, passend ex kyal do kyal, quanta belucen ab luckerns au glend ogwnpetras. 
* Bet quod tar est tod stet ? Murmurit Valeria ye	khafi voc.
* Tik Crom woid ! Antwohrd Conan. Ho ja viden	menscens qui samkwohk iom, punor. Gwivent ana lac Zuad, prokwem id	grance os Kush. Leitti de un irk em mestissaget Stygians, qui	hant-se mixen alyi race quod hieb venturen do Stygia, gwehmend	eusttos, oik secules prever, ed quod buit absorben ab i. Son' kalt	« Tlazitlans ». Lakin, som parat ad vate od ne son'	qui han' construct id urb. 
Id paur os Techotl ne kwecto discrohsc ye dalger i ghieng ud id kyal quer ia cadavers lyohg. Eevivrehct sien cap epter sien oms, surprindskwnd eventuala bloska os apterchasse, ed scrutit med un febreuso spect quodkwe dwer pri-yod gwahr. 
Valeria khiek sib stambhes kruses. Ia biey nel ensan. Bet tod stragno swolo sub ays peds ed ta curieusa joyels uper ays cap, isolend ia skadhs qua tup hol perambh i, ia ninmovs ed id terror irs guide, to holo plehsit iam med uno nenamim mistrust, id sensation od uno nemensc perile aluit ambh i. 
* Kad sont inter nos ed Tecuhtli ! Murmurit Techotl	ye sem moment. Dehlgmos ses nastraj, ibo nos embeuskent !
* Ma iblis ne salgmos tod palat kay gwahe ep ia strads ?	Sprohg Valeria. 
* Ne son' strads in Xuchotl, antwohrd is. Nia places ni	dworisghehrds. Id hol citad es' construgen kam un immense palat sun	oin tect. Quo meis kwehc' kam un strad ed id Mier Dikhliz quod tehrt	id hol urb, ex id Norddwor do id Suddwor. Ia saul dwors qua duce ei	uder mund sont ta ios urb, qua nel mensc hat uperghangen pon penkgim	yars. 
* Pon kamdiu weics tu her ? Sprohgit Conan. 
* Gnahsim in Tecuhtli castell trigim penk yars prever.	 Ho naiwo stiupt ex id urb. Bihakkillah, smad gwahe perodh in	silence ! Kad ta dikhliz pehlde med luurnd demons. Olmec	expliesiet vos hol quando habsiemos ghohd' do Tecuhtli. 
Ighi nakwohr ir itner in silence, ia glend ogwnpetras tweisend uper i ed id flamboyant kirmiz grund sub ir peds. Valeria hieb id pondos od mwaungsour per ia haydiklimes, guidet ab un goblin samt maur cuit nistern kays. 
Lakin buit Conan qui stopihsit i menxu i tohr un kyal vaster quem alters. Eys auri os barbar eet acuter quem tod os Techotl, yed exercet unte un jumiung spens katuend-ye in ta silent dikhliz. 
* Mehns tu kad peinds sal-embeuske nos ?
* Aluent unte ta kyals ye cada yawmsaat, antwohrd	Techotl, kam weyswo kwehrmos. Ia dikhliz ed kyals inter Tecuhltli ed	Xotalanc sont un disputen zone, quod nimen controlt. Ia kalmos « ia	Salls os Silences ». Ma eiskwte yu mi tod werd ? 
* Ob son' mensci in ia kyals ant nos, antwohrd Conan. Ho	aurn id clicken os stal ep petra. 
Techol krousyit ed iengh sien dents mae clackient. 
* Kad sont tien prients, suggestit Valeria.
* Ne maghmos incurre tod risk, kwohs is, ghangend perodh	samt un febreus agitation. 
Is tour levtro ed snohg unte un dwer quod ghyahsit uni kyal pon-yod un drab dub do temos. 
* Tod drab duct uni dikhliz quod ne es' beluct, ender	nos ! Strisit is, taungh swoidghutts perlend ep eyso chol. Kad	teupent ter, kathalika. Kad to hol est tik un hila kay attrage nos	tetro. Bet dehlgmos tente noster chance ed spehe hant embusct in ia	kyals ender. Oku, sehkwte me !
Tem silent quem kabus, stigheer ghom ia stieupens ed ghohd ye id bors uns dikhliz tem kyehrsen quem noct. I natup her unte un khvil, akowsiend, poskwo dub endo. Menxu i stohmbh, Valeria khiss un kreus andhe sien omsa, kamsei exspectiet an ay bihiet birt un einscutt ye cada moment. Ploisko ia stalen finghers os Conan qua sohr ays brakh, ia hieb neid physic perception sienen sokwis. Ies kwohr ne meis blosko quem un cat. Id temos eet absolut. Ays hand recto gontro pritouchit id sten ed, ex tid do tid, ia khiss un dwer sub sien finghers. Id dikhliz kwohk aunfin. 
Stayg un blosk ex apter i sromihsit i. Valerias krewos krus iter iaghi ghieb tod blosk eet tod uns dwer quod ghyahsit. Mensci hieb entret id dikhliz apter i. Kun ia fahiem to, ia stus protie semjecto kam uno menscghalv. Tod rollit ep id grund samt un udclanghend behngos. 
* Currte ! Crisch Techotl, samt un note os hysteria	in sien voc, ed is elien-se in id dikhliz kam un pleukend kabus.
Valeria khiss iter Conans hando stehme iam ed toduce iam kun se precipiteer sekwos ir guide. Conan ne vis meis quem ia in id deusk, bet is xihsit un sorte os instincto quod infalliblihsit eys drahsa. Aun eysa stehmen ed ducen habiet ia hurt uno mur. Se precipiteer unte id dikhliz, menxu ia bloska os okudrahsa eegigwehme proscher i, poskwo stayg Techotl exclamit in un annem : 
* En id drab ! Sehkwte me, oku ! Oku !
Conans hand gwohl ex temos, seizend Valerias runco menxu sa kwohlpit blind ep ia stieupens. Ia khiss ia eet pwoltragen, pwolayren ub id spiraldrab, dind is Kimri slu iam ed vols ep ia stieupens, sien aurs ed instincts maunend iom ir peinds hieb quasi navaxt i. Ed ia bloska i kwohr ne eent quanta cia om menscpeds. 
Semject bistigh ia stieupens krampend-ye, ghneihnd protie ta stieupens, bringhend un glehdjic kreus. Conan fiss id air med un cutt sienios mier eins ed khissit sieno miecho sege semquod, maghses krewos ed osta, pre dubes do un stieupen. Semjecto touchit eys ped, glehdjend id kamsei habiet liten de pruswa, dind bich ed fiss id air in id temos ant iom, ed un wir emiss un gvolheul. 
Ye id instant poskwo, Conan se precipitit ub id spiraldrab ed uperdrahsit un ghyanto dwer. 
Valeria ed Techotl hieb udcurs iom, ed Techotlo slahsit id dwer ed puscit un perchin... id prest quod Conan vis pon tod ios dwor quod duxit extro. Techotl vols ed drahsit unte id suabelucen dikhliz do-yod i hieb just ghohden. Kun i upercurs id dwer quod eet ye alter bors, Conan glaz retro ed vis id dwer stunes ed plehce sub id athime waurg ex ocolo. 
Quayque Techotl remien dar tem oku ed prudent, is kwohk taiper meis confident. Is dahsit id pondos uns wir qui hieb just arriven do un familiar stet, ye vocschaecheing em sien prients. Bet Conan protiebud eys terror eiskwnd-ye un werd : 
* Quod tar eet tod jec' contra quod ho katuet ep id	drab ?
* Ies wirs os Xotalanc, antwohrd Techotl aun volge. Vos	ho sayct ia dikhliz pehldent tommed. 
* Ne eet un wir, brohm Conan. Eet semjec' quod rep ed eet	tem srig tem glehdj quando anghen touchet id. Mehno ho dwifisden id.	El creature hat fallen retro ep iens wirs quoy persohkweer nos, ed	el soll' neicus oin unte ia spasmes os sien agonia. 
Techotl oislah sien cap retro ed eys lige hieb rebihn aschlik. Is ieugit convulsive-ye sien gwayt. 
* Eet el Rempend Ses ! Un monster han' bright ex ia	catacombes kay el hehlpt iens ! Quel el est exact-ye, ne	gnohms, bet kathire sont i mensci el hat nict ye un hideus weidos.	In id nam os Set, spehdte ! Sei lancent el ep nies traces, nos	sehkwsiet tiel ia dwors os Tecuhltli !
* To me stauneihiet, brohm Conan. Ne ho lipsen el ep ia	stieupens. 
* Acte oku ! Acte oku ! Brohm Techotl. 
I tohr drahnd-ye un succession kyalen madhend in un glend luce, curs engwn uno mier dikhliz poskwo bad oistahr still ant un gigantesk bronzen portal. 
Techotl sieyg : 
* Hams arrive' do Tecuhltli !
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Id folk ios cruoric weir
Techotl oistus id bronzen portal med sien peungst, dind vols yoitkwe is ghohd vide id bors ios dikhliz. 
* Hat wakyet od mensci buir gvohnen ant tod dwer, menxu i	mohn ses in salvtat, iey is.
* Ma ne ghyanent id dwer ? Sprohgit Conan. 
* Nos spehcent per id Ok, antwohrd Techotl. Yu pribeudte	i (Is bahsit jaharer ed kiel:) Ghyan id dwer, Xecelan ! Som	ego, Techotl, con prients gwohmen ex id platu dighom trans id	forest ! Vahn' ghyane, sigwrit is ad sien allieits. 
* Ke kwehrnt to oku, tun, iey Conan samt un buxianxu ton.	Auro semject remples ep id dwol, ocolo id dikhliz. 
Id lige os Techotl iter spielv kam bur ed is hiemmer id dwor med staur choyks, ed sammel hul : 
* Ghyante, bande imbecilen, ghyante ! El Rempend Ses	apterpersnet nos !
Menxu is eetitundt ed eekikraght med plen pulmons, id miero bronzen portal ghyahsit intos aun blosk, revelend un gwaur eko skeir unte id entrat, apter-yod eent dyohrct un roig om ghehrsznd lances ed gver liges qua spohc i attentive-ye unte oik secundes. Dind id ek buit lift ed Techotl siz id brakh sienen prients med un frenitic geste ed upernihsit i ocolo id soyl. Un glanez epter sien oms just kun id dwor zaghyahsit iti revelit ad Conan id long prospect ios dikhliz ed, wardhend mulayim-ye ep alter bors tos, un ogviskeip qual molicit salge un kyal ed quel, krampend-ye, snohg unte sien hol longe in id dikhliz. Els hideus ed cruorpoiko cap oscillix levtro dextro. Dind id portal buit zaghyant, perbehrgend el creature ud eys vid. 
Gwaur perchins buir tracta skeir id dwor ios quadrat kyal hieb-yod i just penetren, ed id ek buit renplacen. Id dwor hieb est concept kay resiste un siege. Quar wirs, samt long platt kays ed maur cuit, ios sam race quem Techotl, stahr ter wakht, dorughesor ed eins kata ir hink. Embaudht in id muro prokwem id dwor wohs un complexe ijadh speculen ed Conan tierk lit ter de id Oko quod Techotl hieb udwekwnt. Eet concept yoitkwe ghohd bihe spohcen extro aun bihe vis per un angho cristallsteno masgal. Ies quar guardes chohx i gospotis samt stauneihnd protiokwa, yed iskweer neid werd, ne meis quem Techotl iens etiwohkwit de. Senter trohc tuntos samt un sakwn gwayt, kamsei ud iom habiet est abdeht eys onos om bfugwaukania ed paur kun is hieb uperghangen id soyl. 
* Gwehmte ! Spud is sienens nov prients, bet Conan	spohc id dwor.
* Ed toy types quoy sohkweer nos ? Ne vahnt ies	pites udschturmes id dwor ? 
Techotl oiscussit sieno capo. 
* Ies woid khakent nibrehge id Ornddwor. Vahn' mwaungsoue	do Xotalanc, con ir rempend demon. Gwehmte ! Vahm vos duce ant	i potis os Tecuhltli.
Oino iom quar guardes ghyien id dwer witerom tod unte-yod i hieb entren, arriveer ep un dikhliz quod, kam pleista kyals tos etage, eet belucen sammel ab ia angh luckerns ed ia gwrozdus om tweiser ogwnpetras. 
Bet nekam alter kyals i hieb ja tohrn, tod dikhliz bevisit signes os occupation. Zamtbehangs covohr ia murs ex lamper jade, tegu kelims lyohg ep ia kirmiz dempeds, ed ia strons, benks ed coucha, quanta ex ivor, eent bestert med satinbolghis. 
Id dikhliz ensit med uno kmehto dwer, ant-yod nel straj eet walst. Aun alyo manier, Techotl ghyien id ed penetrih sien prients un vasto sall quer trigimtia em maurcuit individus, wirs ed gwens, lyohg nonchalant-ye ep satincovohrt cubhs. Quanti klieup ed sammel emisseer stauncries. 
Vasyi wirs, ploisko oin, eent ios sam type quem Techotl. Ias gwens hieb id samo maur cuit ed ia sam stragn okwi, bet ye un obscure ed curieus weidos, ne eent tem repulsive. Ias vohseer sandals, golden pizdanplacks, ed cort silken ghitons protiedarn ye lendvo med jauhargjiaungsiant yeusmens. Ir sword kays, quadrathajamat ye omshoge, eent protiedart med un argwrnten ring. 
Ep uno mier ivorsedd post ep un jaden sockel throneer un wir ed un gwen qui eent subtile-ye different ud alters. Is wir eet un olbjim, hieb un torso samt colossal dimensions ed tauromsa. Nekam alters, is eet barbut, ed tod teug blousword berd quasi niek eys weur yeusmen. Is vohs un purpwr silken robe quod reflegit colorschimmers ye cada eysen movs. Oiter eysen ample armeln eet mutastrohcto tiel olan, revelend uno massive bagu samt gneubhic muscles. Id ringo quod protiedier ia blousword fitils os eys kays eet gjiaungsiant samt tweiser joyels. 
Ia gwen seddend nieb iom klieup ep sien peds ed emiss un taajub kun i gospotis entreer id kyal. Ays okwi, passend jaldi ep Conan, stier samt chald intensitat ep Valeria. Ia eet buland ed urand, ed dalgtos ia bellst gwen ios kyal. Ia eet dun ye dar legver weidos quem alters, vice ghi un fustan, ia vohs un simple rectangle ex purpwr goldkmehn godwehb, pagen medsu sien yeusmen, ed quod hieng lyt niter quem aysa genus. Un dwoter godwehb rectangle pagen za ayso yeusmen completit tod part os ays trakh, quod ia vohsit samt un cynic indifference. Ays pizdanplacks ed id rika keingend ays cap eent gjiaungsiant samt gemmes. Ia eet ia saul tim quant leuds quim okwi ne blig med tod diutis os dementia. Ia sieyg neid werd pos tod presto taajub ; ia nastahsit, tenden, samt zaghyanen hands, starnd ad Valeria. 
Is wir seddend ep id ivorthron ne hieb stahn ub. 
* Peurst Olmec, iey Techotlo dientownd-ye meg-ye ghem,	samt ghohngen brakhs ed pams wohrten ub, bringho allieits gwohmen ex	id mund trans id forest. In id kyal os Tzecoti, id Ardent Ghalv hat	nict Chicmec, mien sokwi...
* Id Ardent Ghalv ! Murmureer samt un paurkreus i	weikers os Tecuhltli. 
* Yaghi ! Tun ho arriven ed trohven Chicmec lyehgend	ghomi samt tohmen gurgule. Pre ghehdiem mwaungsoue, id Ardent Ghalv	hat ruschen ant me ed kun ho spohcen id, mien sehrg hat-se	transformen do glehdj ed id mozg mienen osten liquefien. Io khiek	katue we mwaungsoue, kwehre quodkwe ploisko skehpte id fatal cutt.	Tun hat prohpen sa blankcuit gwen qua hat nigvohnt id med un	einscutt ; ed tun, ho viden od lit tik de oin tom kwauns os	Xotalanc, samt corpos pigen do albh ed eys cap kufyen med id druv	ghalv uns brukh ios prev ! Tod ghalv est tuntos brohc' do plur	schtuks, ed is kwaun qui vohs id es' mortu ! 
Un indescriptible lyuto taajub ieusk in tod akhir jumla, kwohr-yei echo id wild ed stump clamor quod lud ex ia rangs im kleustrern qui hieb gwohmt proscher iom. 
* Bet skehptte ! Exclamit Techotl. Es' gohder !	Menxu tolkim con iam gwen, quar Xotalancas hant ruscht ep nos !	Ho nicen oin... Tod vurnos ep mien bemern bevidt kam isgur buit id	katu. Ia gwen hat nicen dwo tom. Bet eems in khak stand kun so wir	hat joinen id combat ed hat fisden id ghalv ios quart ! Yaghi !	Penk kirmiz gwozda tehrbmos sehe do id kwoinastolb !
Is kyus un ebonstolb quod stahsit apter id thron. Centens om rudh points ghohrs ep ids glat surface... Ia aliw caps om tanghu glaughen gwozda sehta do kyehrsen dreu. 
* Penk rudh gwozda po penk gwit om Xotalancas !	Exultit Techotl, ed id horrible lengvos quod lahsit id lige im	kleustrern ia buwit nemensc.
* Qui sont ti leuds ? Sprohg Olmec. 
Eys voc swohn kam id stump grohm uns taurios aurn dalgtos. Nel alyis weiker os Xuchotl bahsit honar-ye. Eet kamsei habient absorpto do id budmen iren atmens id silence tom tuichen dikhliz ed tom desert kyals. 
* Som Conan, un Kimri, antwohrd laconic-ye is barbar. Ena	gwen est Valeria ios Rudh Keiwia, un aquilonian pirate gwen. Hams	desertiren un armee ep id grance os Darfar, nord in id nord, ed	peitmos nake id caust.
Ia gwen ep id takhta bahsit med un akster voc ed, in ays hast, ia werds oistus protie mutu in ayso stohm. 
* Yu naiwo ghehdsiete nake id caust ! Nimen ghehdt	skape Xuchotl ! Yu mansiete unte id reste os voster jumiung in	tod urb !
* Quod mayns tu ? Brohm Conan, bringhend lengver-ye	sien hand ep id hamand siens eins ed mutastahnd yoitkwe wehse sammel	face id podium ed id reste ios sall. Es tu saygend nos od smos	prisoners ? 
* Ia ne hat maynen to, interposit-se Olmec. Smos vies	prients. Ne darskwmos vos her protievol. Bet baym an alya	circumstances beuwnt od vos sia impossible linkwes Xuchotl. 
Is glaz nin-ye Valeria ed spohc oku ghom. 
* Id nam tas gwen est Tascela, iey is. Est un peurstin os	Tecuhltli. Bet bihntu brighen scharab ed mets niesims gostims. Sont	aundwoi heunghernd ed strak ob id long itner han' kwohrn.
Is kyus un ivoren meja ed pos oispehcus mutu, bo aventurers sess ghom. Is Kimri eet mistreusend. Eys gver blou okwi parchohx id kyal ed eis eins eet dayim ye prayghest. Bet is naiwo refusit Iun invitation ad pohe ed meje. Eys okwi eerireikent kye Tascela, bet ia peurstin eegiglect sien blankcuit sokwnia. 
Techotl, qui hiebit plohcen un kumasch ambh sien vurnen bemern, se placit prokwem id meja kay satisface ia desires em sien prients, kwecto aynd un privilege ed un honor id fact os poitte subvene ir wans. Is inspexit id pitu ed ia scharabs bright in golden vescell, ed gus ielgo platt ed ielg scharabo pre dehe ia ant sien gostens. Menxu mejeer, Olmec remien seddend silent-ye ep sien filkursiy, spehcend i ex sub sien sword ed teug brovs. Tascela sess nieb iom, sieno manto dehn ep id pam sienen hands, ed sien olans ep sien genus. Eys deusk ed enigmatic okwi blig med uno mysterieus flamme ed naiwo likw id slanc corpos as Valeria. Apter iam, una meg bell meirka samt skeud protiokwo wipih lent-ye un schaenziu ex strausptors. 
Id pitu khaliban composeer exotic fruits negnoht ab bo mussafers, yed meg amat ei geusmen ; id drehnk eet un rubincolor vin quod eet besonters capic. 
* Yu habte gwohm' dalgos, visieyg Olmec. Ho list ia buks	niesen paters. Aquilonia lyehct trans ia gaivias im Stygians ed im	Schemis, trans Argos ed Zingara ; ed Kimria lyehct trans	Aquilonia.
* Wey bo hams un vagabond temperament, antwohrd Conano	neglegend-ye. 
* Druve-ye daumo quosmed yu habte ghohdt uperghange id	forest, declarit Olmec. In awa diens, meg molicit ad tusent wighen	se sehnde per quanta periles id perkehlt. 
* Hams albatt incontren un genis cortjamb monster tem	buland quem un mastodon, iey Conan indolent-ye, regend sien bicair	ad Techotl qui plehsit id med vin samt un evident plaisure, bet pos	neicus el, neti buam enwoghlet. 
Id vinflasken slid ex id hand os Techotl ed criesch protiev id swol. Eys maur cuit spielv do bur. Olmec klieup ep sien peds, keipend perfect-ye hayriene, ed un stump taajub, os yazgos au dekhschat, lud ex ia rangs altern Tecuhltlis. Oiks fiell ep ir genus kamsei ir jambs neti ghehdient oistehme i. Tik Tascela kwohk aurus neid. Conan spohc ambh se med un abstauniht protiokwo. 
* Quod est id probleme ? Ma mante yu ter, samt	hangend ghyanu ?
* Tu... has gvohnt el ogvidiv ? 
* El div ? Ho gvohnt un ogvi. Ed ma ne ? Is pit	guraghe nos. 
* Bet ogvis son' nemerti ! Exclamit Olmec. Gvehnen'	mutu, bet nel mensc hat aiwo gvohnen un ogvi ! Id tusentwighia	in ia rangs nosters atavia quod hat-se sohndt tiel Xuchotl ghohd	kwehre neid protiev i ! Ir einsa hant brohc' kam uradels ep ir	squams ! 
* Sei tien atavs habien' mohnen de merge ir lances do ia	poisonswekwsa iom Apels as Derketa, declarit Conan, samt plen stohm,	ed de dyehgwe tommed ia okwi, id muk au qualglib' mems tos genos,	habien' viden od ogvis ne son' meis nemerti quem quellibt	krewoskowp. Els carcasse lyehct in id shienrlin, meg prokwem id	leizd ios forest. Sei ne me credeihs, tuswo maghs gwahe chehxe. 
Olmec oiscussit sien cap, ne ob incredulitat, sontern ob staunos. 
* Ob i ogvis han' nies atav endergwohm' do Xuchotl, iey	is. Ne durs tehre id plain ni gwahe deuber do id forest trans id.	Decens buir kapen ed praedden ab i monsters pre nake id urb.
* Tun ne buit vies atavia quod hat construgen Xuchotl ?	Sprohg Valeria. 
* Eet ja awo quan id hat arrive' do id region. Pon kamdiu	id exist, hatta ids degener weikers ne wois. 
* Vies atavia gwohm ex Lac Zuad ? Iom interrogit	Conan. 
* Ya. Lyt meis quem penkgim yars prever, un teut em	Tlazitlans hat pamrlan' contra iom roy os Stygia. Vict in un boi,	han' mwaungsoun sudtro. Erreer unte mult hevds, per prairies, desert	ed clins, ed vighohdeer do id mier forest. Eet tusent wighen,	hamraht ab ir gwens ed magvens. In id forest hant i ogvis	uperfallen i, kaydend multens ex i ; nies atavs mwaungsour ud	i, pussiret ab un extercontrol paur. I vighohd ep id plain medsu	quod i dyohrc id urb Xuchotl. I wieun ant id urb, ne deursend	linkwes id plain, nocts ghi udcliengh ia hideus bloska im monsters	katuend protie mutu unte id hol forest. Levereer ad mutu un aunstop	weir. Yed, ventureer naiw ep id plain. I urbweikers clus ir	dwors ed bestrohl nies atavs med isus pon ir murs. I Tlazitlans eent	prisoners ep id plain, kamsei id circule ios forest esiet un sorte	os mier wall ; ar venture do id shienrlin habiet es' follia.	 Ye tod noct, un sclav ios citad snohg secret-ye do ir waun, un	wir irs wi aserng. Is hieb esen member os un soldatengrupp	fortrehcus do aventure yars prever, ed is eet tik un meryo, ed i	hieb viwohsen in id forest. I ogvis hieb praess eys quant sokwis,	bet is buit kapt ed abduc' do id citad kay gwive ter ka sclav. Eys	nam eet Tolkemec. (Un flamme passit ant eys deusk okwi kun is	pronuncit tod nam, ed oiks im Tecuhltlis mutier obscenitats ed	spiur.) Is promiss ibs jenchis kem ibs ghyaniet ia dwors ios urb. Po	to, is prohg tik kem i prisoners ei bihient uperdahn. Ye octent,	is ghyien ia dwors. Ies jenchis enghulf ed cruor sru in ia dikhliz	os Xuchotl. Eent tik oik centens weikern, senst vestigen uns prevs'	jabbar race. Tolkemec expliet i hieb gwohmt eusttos meg diuper, ex	awo Kosala, kun id atavia im actual weikers os Kosala hieb arrivet	ex id Sud, chassend i tienjien habitants ex ir vatan. I hieb emigret	dalgtro westro ed hieb vitrohft tod plain perambht ab forest, quod	eet tun wict ab un aydokwo teut. I perscliev senters ed	entrepris construge un wir. I dugh jade, marmor, lazuward, gold,	argwrnt ed cuper ex ia clins eusti. Elephantenchurds im diedw ivor.	Akape ir urb, massacreer vasyens aydokwens sclavs. Ed ir magicians	prepareer un staur brukhti kay protege id urb : dank ir gnohsas	in necromantia, toy brigh tsay do gwit i ogvis qui populeer prevst	tod lust gaivia, ed quim mustring nugwrnts i hieb retrohven in id	forest. I covohr ta nugwrnts med krewos, ed tetro wehr gwit, ed i	scriscen animals ieg iter ep id ghom, kam i hieb kwohrn quando Wakt	eet yun. Bet ies brukhs kyuk un soitos quod im stabh salge id forest	ed itak i ne gwohm do id plain. Also gwiveer unte mult secules i	weikers os Xuchotl in ir urb, keulend id fertil plain hin ir mualims	aunstohg id wassila os buwes fruits eni id gordos ios citad, fruits	non-planten do ardh, sontern qua weuxe ep id contact os air. I sis	tun turses ia yavias ed gwiveer stets meis do un luxe aylakia, hin	inkiepeer bihe decadent. Eet un agonisant race kun nies atavia hat	uperact id forest ed arrive' do id plain. Ir brukhs hieb mohrt ed i	leuds hieb myohrst id awo necromantia. I khiek katue, kweter med	vraj au weben. Edghi nies paters nic i weikers os Xuchotl,	ploisko centen ex i qui buir uperdaht inter ia ghesors Tolkemecs qui	hieb est ir sclav ; unte mult diens ed mul' nocts ia dikhliz	repercuss ia echos iren gvolcries menxu is torturit i. I	Tlazitlans mien in tod loc. Gwiveer in pace unte sem wakt, waldhen	ab iens Tecuhltli braters ed ab Tolkemec. So wohd un dugter ios teut	ed chunke is hieb ghyanen ia dwors ios urb, ed ob gnohr pelu weidas	im Xuchotlans, is regnit ep id teut con iens dwo braters quoy hieb	duct id pamrlan ed id exodus. Unte ghi oik yars, gwiveer in pace	eni id urb, kwehrnd ne maung ploisko meje, drehnke, yehbhe ed ale ir	purts. Ne eet tohrp' kules id plain, ar Tolkemec im doxit quosmed	buwes ia fruits qua weuxe ep air. Eti, id massacre im Xuchotlans	hieb brohct id charmen quod mantin i ogvis in id forest, ed ti gwohm	kongcio ad mugihes ambh id urb gwehmus id noct. Id plain bihsit rudh	ob id cruor irs aunstop weir, ed tun... (Is dohnk sien dingvo medsu	sien jumla, dind lohgyit, bet Valeria ed Conan khisseer is hieb-se	enderwaurgen ud sayge semjecto quod ne habiet esen hakime	aunkehlder.) Gwiveer in pace unte penk yars. Dind.... (Olmecs okwi	stier bragv-ye ay silent gweni nieb iom). Xotalanc wohd un gwen quam	Tecuhltli ed is veut Tolkemec kathalika hiebskweer. In sien follia,	Tecuhltli rapsit iam ud ays mann. In druve, ia sohkwit iom destull	khalal. Tolkemec, kay balahnes Xotalanc, hohlp Tecuhltli. Xotalanc	demandit kem ays gvibh ei esiet redahn, ed is teutconcil decis id	cheus dohlg bihe likwn ay gwen. Ia chus mane con Tecuhltli. Foll ob	rage, Xotalanc rekiepskwit iam jabran, ed i partisans iom dwo	braters vikatuer in id Mier Dikhliz. Buit maung bittermenos.	Cruor ambisru. Id mer rivalitat se transformit do cruorfaydh, id	cruorfaydh do ouvert weir. Ex tod cruorpoik katu emers tri	factions : Tecuhltli, Xotalanc ed Tolkemec. Ja, unte ia pace	diens, ies hieb dilt id urb inter se. Tecuhltli gwivit in id	westquartier ios urb, Xotalanc in id eustdeil, ed Tolkemec ed eys	familia wik prokwem id Suddwor. Grassab, ressentiment ed	jalousia dlehr ed se transformeer do cruorgheussa, dwinghyehbhs ed	maurdhs. Oins kun id eins eet exkardkaschen, neti eet possible	retrolites ; cruor ghi appellet cruor, ed vengence sehkwt	prokwtos ia atrocitats. Tecuhltli katuit protie Xotalanc, ed	Tolkemec hohlp preter uter, dind alter, khanyend ieter faction	sekwent sien interesses. Tecuhltli ed eysi sgwohm do id quartier ios	Westdwor, quer wehsmos actual-ye. Xuchotl hat un oval forme. Id	quartier Tecuhltli, quod behrt id nam siens peurst, wehst ye id	westbors tos oval. I weikers periclus vasya dwers qua yug id	quartier ei reste ios citad, ploisko ein dwer pro etage, quod eet	facil defensu. Stigheer ghom do ia ghyamens qua lyehge sub id urb ed	construxeer un mur quod isolit id hol westdeil iom catacombes, quer	keihnt ia nayvs im awen Xuchotlans ed ta im Tlazitlans nict unte tod	swesgven weir. Gwiveer kam in un belagher' castell, kwehrnd sorties	ed lancend raids ep ir peinds. I weikers os Xotalanc fortifier	ep ir roig id eustquartier ios urb ed Tolkemec kwohr id sam med id	quartier ios Suddwor. Id central part ios urb buit abandont ed	desert. Ta tuich dikhliz ed kyals transformeer-se do walu, un stet	os perpetual terror. Tolkemec korelit protie dwo alter clans. Is	eet un menscskeip demon, meis khiter quem Xotalanc. Is gnohsit pelu	rounas ios urb is hieb naiwo revelen altrims. In ia crypts iom	catacombes, is rohv ex i mortus ir buxianxu secrets... Ia secrets	iom awen roys ed jenchis, diutos myohrst ab i degener Xuchotlans qui	nies atavia hieb massacren. Bet eys hol magia khiek hehlpe iom unte	id noc' kun wey, i Tecuhltlis, udschturm eys castell, kaydend eys	hol leuds. Tolkemec de torturam unte mul' diens. 
Eys voc sohnk hina bihe un caressanto murmure, ed un piern spect prohp in id budmen eysen okwi, kamsei is revidiet trans ta quant yars un scene qui ei suw un intense plaisure. 
* Ya, hams tinen iom in gwit hin is hul ed kup nehc kam	is habiet kupen sien futur gvibh. Fin-ye, wey salgih iom id	torturenchamber ed iom xubh gwiv do un bodroum kay i rats ghyanuient	eys corpos menxu esiet agonisend. Is kamyieb lakin skape semkam ed	se sohlk do ia catacombes. Aundwoi ter nohc is, idghi saul wassila	os salge ia catacombes qua lyehgent sub Tecuhltli es' passe per	Tecuhltli, ed naiw is emers. Eys osta buir naiwo retrohven, ed	superstitieus leuds bayna nos sigwrnt eys kabus dar hantet ia	crypts, steunend inter ia nugwrnts. Dwodem yars prever hams wey	massacret Tolkemecs leuds, bet id cruorfaydh quod oppont Tecuhltli	ed Xotalanc ne interrup yed, ed id swesgven weir siet rarze hin is	senst wir ed ia sens' gwen mehrnt. Penkgim yars pre nun hat Tecuhltli rap' Xotalancs esor.	Id katel haines duret pon un pwolsecule. Gnahsim unte tod weir.	Quanti in tod kyal, ploisko Tascela, gnahr unte tod weir. Exspectems	od mehrsiemos unte tod weir. Smos un mehrnd race, alnos kam ti	Xuchotlans qui nies atavia massacrit. Kun id swesgvonia udbrohg,	eems centens in ielg faction. Hoyd, vasyi Tecuhltlis sont in tod	kyal, ploisko iens wirs quoy guarde ia quar dwers : quargim in	hol. Ne gnohmos quayt Xotalancas etileikwnt, bet mehno ne son' meg	kathirer quem wey. Nel purt hat gnahn bi nos pon penkdem yars, ed	hams dyohrc' nel bim Xotalancas. Smos dispareihnd, bet pre	mehre, neicsiemos tan' menscens os Xotalanc quem i Divs nos	permittsient. 
Ed, samt sien stragna flamboyant okwi, Olmec lohg diu de tod swesgven weir act in silent kyals ed deuska galeries sub id diutis iom glend ogwnpetras, ep swols kwehkend kirmiz ab ia flammes os hayd ed spruzen ab id dar sombrer rudho dehnend ex sect veines. In id druna tos longios gvonia, un hol generation hieb nohct. Xotalanc hieb mohrt meg diuper, gvohnen unte un buxianxu boi levert ep un ivordrab. Tecuhltli hieb mohrt, skohnt gwiv ab iens furiafoll Xotalancas quoy hieb kapen iom. 
Aun skaue id lytst emotion, Olmec bahsit de hideus bois levern in dikhliz mers in temos, de embeuskens ep spiraldrabs, ed de cruorpoik massacres. Samt un dar-ye rudher ed abyssaler diutis in id budmen eysen deusk okwi, bahsit dei wirs ed gwens qui hieb esen skohnen gwiv, klombhihn ed desmembern, de prisoners heulend sub tortures tem abominable quem hatta is barbar Kimri brohm. Ne eet oistauneihnd an Techotl hieb tremblen ibo bihe kapt. Yed hieb is venturen exter sien quartier kay pites nices, pussiret ab un haines meis akster quem sien paur. Olmec nabahsit, udwekwnend sombre ed mysterieusa jects, tolkend de kyehrsen magia ed vraj kyuct ex id teug noct iom catacombes ; mentionit stragnens creaturens invoquet pon temos kay buwes i do horrible allieits. I Xotalancas hieb id vantage in tod xeimen, ar in id eustdeilo iom catacombes wohs ia nugwrnts iom megst brukhs im awen Xuchotlanen, ed ir extermemoria rounas. 
Valeria klu samt uno morbid fascination. Tod swesgven weiro hiebit bihn un terrible elementar force quod pussirit inexorablement i weikers os Xuchotlo kyir fat ed perneicen. Eet ir saul raison os gwive. I hieb gnaht in tod weir ed exspecteer nehce in tod weir. Naiwo likweer ir barricaden castell sonst kay venture do ia Dikhliz os Silence qua strohc inter bo polis in weir, kay nices ter ed bihe nict. Yando rikeer ex un raid con terrorfoll prisoners, au con buxianxu pruvs os ir sigh in katu. Yando, mer-ye ne rikeer, au sub id forme om sbohrdt memsa, xubht ant id miero bronzen portal. Id gwito tim leuds eet un irreal ed horrible coschmar ; eent segen ex id reste ios mund, kapanbohnden kam rabost rats, massacrend mutu in id druna iom yars, snehgend ed rempend in ta dikhliz qua naiwo belucit diewo, kay dischtukles, torture ed assassine.
Menxu Olmec bahsit, Valeria khiss Tascelas aydhchalden staren ad iam. Ia peurstin kwecto ne ieur quo Olmec lohg. Ays wajkho, menxu senter narrit sighs au marloubias, nel-ye reflegit id gvero rage au id demoniak exaltation qua success mutu ep ia liges altern Tecuhltlis. Weir quod eet id obsession tim os ays clan kwohk ne importe iam. Valeria pohnd ayso srig indifference dar-ye repugnanter quem Olmecs bare gvertat. 
* Ed naiwo ghehdsiemos linkwes id citad, conclus Olmec.	Nimen eelelikwit id pon penkgim yars ploisko ti... (Iter is	interrup.) Eti aun id danger skipt ab i ogvis, gwut is, wey qui	gnahsam ed crohsc in id urb, ne deursiemos linkwes id. Habmos naiwo	dursen stiupes extro. Ne swehdmos dworis ed bare diewo. No,	gnahsam in Xuchotl, ed in Xuchotl mehrsiemos.
* Gohd, antwohrd Conan, con vies permission, vahmos tente	noster chance con i ogvis. Tod weir ne nos betrehft. Sei yu plais	acceptet duce nos ei Westdwor, vahmos abgwahe.
Tascela iengh sien peungsta ; ia bitolcskwit, bet Olmec interrup iam : 
* Id noc' vaht gwehme. Sei yu venturet in id plain nocts,	yu sessiete meg sigwra el praedd im ogvis.
* Hams tohrt id perncti ed swohp' dworis aun vide oin,	jawieb Conan. 
Tascela smihsit aun joy.
* Yu niete durses linkwes Xuchotl !
Conan spohc iam samt un instinctive antogonisme ; ne iom glexit ia, sontern iam gwenu nieb iom.
* Mehno vahn' durses, antwohrd Olmec. Bet, vidte yu,	Conan ed Valeria, i divs solle yeisus vos kye nos, kay bringhes it	sigh im Tecuhltlis ! Ste mercenars... Ma ne katue pro nos ?	Hams opnos in pohltos... Jauhars sont tem current in Xuchotl quem	adoquins in ia strads tos mund. Sems buir bright ab i Xuchotlans	unte ir safer pon Kosala. Alya, kam ia ogwnpetras, buir trohft in ia	Eustclins. Hehlpte nos ad pernices alnos i Xotalancas ed vos	dahsiemos quanta joyels yu ghehdsiete tobehre.
* Ed yu nos hehlpsiete ad nices i ogvis ? Sprohg	Valeria. Med loncs ed poisonisus, trigim yeudmi esien' kafi kay	nices vasyens laysogvis.
* Tamam ! Antwohrd jaldi Olmec. Habmos myohrst	quosmed anghen folossiet un lonc, pos yars om corps-ad-corps combat,	bet ghehdmos iter uces.
* Quod mayns tu de ? Valeria sprohgit Conan.
* Smos dwo aungrosch vagabonds, fried is samt buxianxu	protiokwo. Mi est egal nices Xotalancas au alyens. 
* Yughi acceptet ? Exclamit Olmec, menxu Techotl	khiek comarke sien joy.
* Ya. Ed sei yu nos deikiete nies kamer, kay ghehdmos	swehpe ed ses fit cras pro id inkapem ios massacre ?
Olmec acquiescit ed znieyc med sien hand. Techotl ed un gwen duxeer i aventurers kyun dwer levter quem id jaden takhta, quod ghyahsit kyun dikhliz.
Valeria glaz retro ed vis Olmec, seddend ep sien thron, sieno mant ep sien cluden peungst, spehcend i. Eys okwi blig med un stragno flamme. Tascela se seddih deuber ep sien kursiy ed murmurit semjecto do id aur as Yasala, iam skeudlige slougu, qua hieb just cliht-se ep ays oms.
Id dikhliz ne eet tem weur quem pleista qua i hiebeer begwaht, bet id eet long. Pau pos, ia gwen stahsit still, ghyien un dwer ed abvicit kay sines Valeria entre. 
* Skehpt un minute, brohm Conan. Quer swehpo io ?
Techotl ei dixit un kamer ocolo id dikhliz, oin dwer dalger. Conan kung ed kwecto sal-objexit kun Valeria ei smih scharir-ye ed slahsit id dwer ant eys lige. Is grumel un remarke quod ne eet tender dia gwens in general ed ghieng perodh ocolo sekwos Techotl. 
Arriven do id riche-ye meublet kamer quer vahsit upernocte, is glaz ia luckerns. Sems eent kafi weru pro permitte uni minc wir gwahe per, oin kun id glas habiet biht brohct. 
* Ma ne passent i Xotalancas passe ep ia tects kay se	introduce per ia luckerns ? Sprohg is.
* Son' nebrehget, antwohrd Techotl. Eti, moliciet	progredde ep ia tects. Pleista consistent spices, coupels ed skarp	simans. 
Is wir dahsit alya informations de id « castell » os Tecuhltli. Kam id reste ios urb, id compris quar nivells, quar series om salls, ed tors lud uper ia tects. Ielg nivell bohr eino nam ed i weikers Tecuhltlis hieb hatta daht uno nam ielgi kyal, dikhliz ed drab ios urb, kam i weikers om normaler citads dahnt uno nam irims strads ed quartiers. In Tecuhltli, ia tri etages hieb kam nams ubtos nitro id Ornd, id Maymoun ed id Tigher, ed i kiel Serpent id deilo ye grundnivell. 
* Qua est Tascela ? Sprohgit Conan. Olmecs esor ?
Techotlo krus ed ambhglaz nin-ye pre antwehrde : 
* No. Ia est... Tascela ! Eet Xotalancs esor... Ia	gwen quam Tecuhltli hat rapt, ed qua buit ei origin id cruoric weir.
* Quod lehcs tu mi ? Sprohgit Conan. Sa gwen est yun	ed bell. Peits tu sayge mi ia eet ja Xotalancs esor penkgim yars	prever ? 
* Ya ! Kassamo ! Ia hieb ja balirh oumer kun i	Tlazitlans hant arrivet ex Lac Zuad. Est ob is roy os Stygia iam	buwskwit sien samlyogh od Xotalanc ed eys brater han' pamrlanen ed	mwaungsoun do id desert. Est un brukha, qua xeiht id secret os	abadic yuwent. 
* Ed quo est tod secret ? Sprohgit Conan. 
Techotl iter krus. 
* Mae sprehg me ! Ne deurso tolke de. Es' meg pior	buxianxu, hatta pro Xuchotl !
Ed, ponus un fingher ep sien lipps, is oisnohg ex id kamer. 
IV 
Id profume ios kyehrsen lotus
Valeria disking sien yeusmen ed pos id, sien eins dar in ids kardkasch, ep id cubh quer ia swohpskwit. Ia kieu ia dwers eent samt perchins ed sprohgit quetro duxeer. 
* Ta duce ibs contigu kamers, antwohrd ia gwen	kyeusend-ye ia dwers dexter ed levter. Tod (pfehrstend id	cuperchambranle dwer quod oistahsit face id entratsdwer) ghyaht kyun	dikhliz quod duct id drab kya catacombes. Mae bayas ; neid	ghehdt tib wakye her.
* Qua tolc' de baye ? Iey brenk-ye Valeria. Kamo tik	woide in quod genos os bender fundaro. No, ne volo ke swehps pod	mien crovat. Ne swehdo od mi serve... ne gwens in quan' fall. Poitts	oisgwehme. 
Oins kun ia buit mon in sien kamer, ia pirate traxit ia perchins vasyen dwers, giowit sien bauts ed lyohgit ghom strehcend-ye schakhwani-ye ep sien cubh. Ia fikrit Conan keihnd in samlik position ocolo id dikhliz, bet ayso ster vanitat iam pussirit ad sib imagine iom, samt mukadaro protiokwo, decept ed gomret, menxu is se xubh ep sieno mon lyegher, ed un scharir smeih ornit ays lige kun ia se preparit ad swehpe. 
Noct hieb gwohmt exo. In ia dikhliz os Xuchotl, ia glend ogwnpetras bligeer kam okwi em prehistoric cats. 
Semloc in ia tors mers do temos, un noctwindo stun kam un peinwent atmen. Ningastalts biventureer unte ia obscure passages, kam aunkrewos skadhs. 
Valeria gohr unte oin schtoss ep sien cubh. In id muzlim smaragddiutis oispens ab ia ogwnpetras, ia dyohrc un silhouette cliht uper iam. Unte oin confus instant, buit kamsei id apparition eet part ios drehm quetos ia hieb est rohft. Ay hieb kwohken ses oiswehpend in id kamer in-yod iaghi wohs, menxu uper iam pulsiet ed vibrit un gigantesk swordo flor, tem enorm quem id occultit id tavan. Ids exotic profume penetrit ays hol ses, seuwnd in iam un sensual ed delicieus narc, quod eet sammel meis ed minter quem swehpen. Ia dub do ia profumet mighels uns aunkaur felicitat kun semject hieb touchen ays lige. Id drogh hieb kwehto tem maung-ye aysa sensations quem tod muzlim contact ay effexit kam un gvaltic schock, protiebeudend-ye iam unte oin schtoss, in plen xeihsa os ays ment. Tun vis ia, ne un flor samt aunmeid proportions, sontern unu maurcuit gwen qua stahsit uper iam. 
Rage ed un fauric reaction sohkweer strax. Ia gwen volsit samt un urando mov, bet pre ia habiet ghohden mwaungsoue, Valeria stahsit ed hieb kapen iam per ays brakh. Ia bent se strubh kam un tighrin unte oik secundes, dind se resignit kun ia khiss truden ab id superior nerce as sien duschman. Ia pirate vrohnk ays brakh yoitkwe sa viwohs face iam, siz iam per ays mantu med sien leur hand ed dwigh sieni prisonerin ad incontre sien spect. Eet Yasala, ia skeud slouga Tascelas. 
* Quod iblis kwohrst tu clihn uper me ? Quod dehrjs	tu in tien hand ?
Ia gwena ne antwohrd, yed tentit xubhes quo ia dohrj. Valeria vrohnk iter ays brakh ed Yasala sisit skape... uno mier exotic swordo flor ye id bors os un jadeglendo steb. Ia eet tem tanghu quem id cap uns gwen, albatta, yed micri comparen ei exageren vision ia hieb haben de. 
* Un sword lotus ! Iey Valeria inter sien dents. Id	flor quos profume gehnt un deub swehpen ! Tu pits' droghe me !	Sei ne habies accidental-ye touchet mien lige med oin iom petals,	habies... Ma has tu kwohrt ? Quod acs tu ?
Yasala persistit in sien skeud mu. Exbehrnd un rughat, Valeria periwohrt iam gvalt-ye, ay dwigh genue ed vrohnk ays brakh do ays regv. 
* Bah, sons' disapo tien brakh !
Yasala stun ob gvol kun ays brakh bihsit inexorable-ye retropuls inter ays pletias, bet ka saul antwehrd ia se contentit med scutte gvalt-ye sien cap. 
* Tu genis loktong ! Scricit Valeria, retrojecend-ye	iam violent-ye.
Ia gwen collapsit ghomi. Ia pirate spohc id prostren silhouette med rageplen okwi. Ia baysa ed mehmen om Tascelas aydhchald okwi sroht in iam, sbeudend ays hol gver conservationsinstincts. Ti leuds eent decadent ; quodlibt forme os perversitat ud i miegh bihe exspectet. Bet Valeria khiss eet alyo ject apter to hol, sem secreto terror dar impurer quem ia adic depravations. Ia buit guraghen ab ia paur ed repulsion qua tod curieuso citad ay inspirit. Ti leuds eent neter saun ni normal ; ia hatta bidwoyit an buir druve-ye mensc. Follia aluit in id budmen iom okwi vasyen Tecuhltlis, ploisko ia cruel ed aunpotem okwi Tascelas, qua arohg secrets ed mysteirs dar abyssaler quem ta os follia. 
Ia spohc ub ed akowsicit. Ia dikhliz os Xuchotl eent tem silent quem kamsei habiet druve-ye liten de uno mortu wastu. Ia glend joyels miedh id kamer in un coschmar diutis, in-yod ia okwi ias gwen lyehgend ghomi twis stragn-ye menxu ia spohc iam. Un panique kreus iendh Valeria, chassend ia senst vestiges os mildet ex ays lyut atmen. 
* Ma has tu pit droghe me ? Murmurit ia seizend-ye	iam gwen per ayso sword kaysar, retrojecend ays cap kay merge sien	specto do ia trist longpecmen okwi. Est Tascela qua te hat yisen ?
Neid antwehrd. Valeria rughiet bitter-ye ed schamier uter gian ias gwen, dind alter. Ia cutts cliengh in id kamer, bet Yasala sisit skape neid schikay. 
* Ma ne cries tu ? Sprohg wild-ye Valeria. Bays an	semanghen te aurt ? Quel bays tu ? Tascela ? Olmec ?	Conan ?
Yasala iter ne antwohrd. Ia se ahockit, spehcend sien sokaru med okwi tem buxianxu quem ta uns basiliskios. Ays inat silence tik ieug id grassab. Valeria vols ed wul un quato stranghen ex un prokwem behang. 
* Tu genis skeud loktong ! Ieyit ia inter sien	dents. Vahm rehve tien quan' vesters, te diehnes skeir ep tod crovat	ed te biches hin mi saycs quo tu kwohrst her ed quel te hat yisen !
Yasala emiss neid protest ed nel-ye resistit menxu Valeria dostrig id prest part ios tehrgen samt un furia quod id inatia aysias kaptias eekikwehnt. Unte un khvil buit neid alyo blosk in id kamer quem id striden ed id clacken iom tricen silken stranghs qua plieg id bare krewos. Yasala khiek move sien solid-ye kyimen hands ed peds. Ays corpos kriemp ed krusit sub tod kyasen, ays cap wip dextro levtro ye id tempo iom cutts. Ia dub sien dents do sien enderlipp ed un sayeto cruor bisru chunke id kyasen ne stopit. Yed ia ne emiss oin crie. 
Ia uranda stranghs ne meg bloskeer plangend-ye id kreusend corpos ias kaptias ; eet aurto tik un stump clacken, yed cada iom stranghs likw un rudh sohlk ep id maur cuit as Yasala. Valeria inflixit id kyasen med id hol nerce os sien brakh sakhtiht ab weirs, samt id total absence os mildet hassilen in id druna uns gwit quer gvol ed aziyats eent cadadien, ed samt id hol cynic dayia quod tik un gwen ghehdt bevide dia alyu gwen. Yasala payss dar meis, tant mental-ye quem physic-ye quem ia habiet paytten sei habiet esen un wir qui habiet ghesort id bich, med quodkwe nerce. 
Nu-vigih tod ster cynisme Yasalas resistence. 
Un stump steun skiep ays lipps ed Valeria interrup, samt nalift brakh, chassend retro un swoidsmeu blond fitil. 
* Vahs tu ghi bahe ? Sprohg ia. Ghehdo continue ye	tod tempo unte id hol noct, sei tohrpt !
* Rahimat ! Murmurit ia gwen. Vahm bahe. 
Valeria segit ia stranghs qua rig ia runcs ed glesens ias gwen, ed hohlp iam ad restahe. Yasala se sis falle ep id cubh, pwollyehgend ep un nogwo cloino, kneigvend ep uter brakh, krampend ob gvol kun ays lumatayn cuit entrit contacto con id matrass. Ia tremblit unte sien quanta memsa. 
* Vin ! Implorit ia, samt turst lipps, deikend med	un rhayr-yakin hand un golden chascha post ep un ivortable. Sine me	pohe. Tib saycsiem quanto gnohskws dind.
Valeria ghens id chascha ed Yasala stieusit ub kyopev-ye kay sizes id. Ia ghens id, bohr id kye sien lipps... dind xubh ids mathmoun do id face ias Aquilonian. Valeria vienk retro, chassend ed tiergend id pickant liquid ex sien okwi. Per un gvolic mighel, ia vis Yasala se precipite ocolo id kyal, ayre un perchinum in plen hast, ghyane id cuperchambranle dwer ed mwaungsoue do id bud ios dikhliz. Ia pirate apterpersnit iam unte id sehkwnd instant, einsghesor ed gvonmenos. 
Bet Yasala uddrahsit samt id nerveus agilitat uns gwen qua hat just bihn bichen ed pussiren do id leizd ios hysteria crise. Ia disprohp apter un wangwl ios dikhliz, suaudcurrus Valeria. Kun ia pirate tour ep sien roig, ia vis tik un tuicho dikhliz ed, ye alter bud, un dwer ghyanen kye temos. Uno madh moff exhalit-se tetos, ed Valeria krus. Tod sollit ses id dwer quod duxit do ia catacombes. Yasala hieb endergwohmt bayna i mortus. 
Valeria stiupit perodh-ye tiel id soylo ios dwer ed dyohrc un petradrab quod dub dind jaldi enghulf do absoluto temos. Eet okwivid-ye un perigumt quod duxit direct-ye ibs gixiaghyamens ios urb, aun access ibs enderetages. 
Ia krus mulayim-ye sehgnend-ye de ia tusents cadavern lyehgend terender in ir petracrypt, vulbht in ir saupend kafan. Ia nel-ye iskwit ambhtaste ghom ta petrastieupens. Yasala gnohsit aundwoi ia lytst cotlans ed kantuns tom tunnels. 
Ia abgirit frustret ed furieus, kun un stupen sleuct lud ex id tenischakht. Id kwecto orgwohm ex meg deub, yed oik werds ghohd bihe skwit, ed id voco quod swohr ia eet tod uns gwen :
* Oh, maideh ! Maideh, in id nam os Set ! Ahh !
Id voc se forswohn ed kwohk ad Valeria aure id echo os un spectral cakhin. Ia hieb anateina. Quod hieb wakyet ad Yasala in id budmen tos teug temos ? Eet neid dwoi od iage hieb emitten tod crie. Bet quod tar miegh ubgwehmus ay ? Kweghi aluit un Xotalanca niter ? Olmec im hieb sigwrn id part iom catacombes quod lyohg sub Tecuhltli eet isolen ud id reste, ed od id mur eet maung pior solid mae ir peinds ghehdient vrehne id. Eti, tod cakhin hieb druve-ye neid mensclik. 
Valeria drahsit tsay ocolo id dikhliz, aun se strehnge ad zaghyane id dwer apter se. Ia ghohd tsay do sien kamer ed puscit id perchin apter se. Ia uwit sien bauts ed comiep id yeusmen siens eins. Ia eet suagwaukan de trehve Conan ed de urge iom, sei is eet dar gwiv, ad joine iam kay se sehnde med einscutts ex tod demonencitad. 
Bet kun ia niek id dwer quod duxit ei dikhliz, un long agoniaheul udcliengh unte ia corridors, sohkwt ab id blosk uns effrenatios drahsa, ed id swehner behngos iom einsen. 
V 
Dwogim rudh gwozda
Dwo jenchis kihr nonchalant-ye in id sall iom guardes ios Orndetage. Ir attitude eet relaxen, menxu eent biadet vigilant. Un attaque contra id aysen dworo remien possible, bet pon yars neuter faction eelelancit sem protiev id duschman camp. 
* I gospotis son' staur allieits, iey uter. Olmec siet	marche contra i peinds cras, mehno.
Is tolkit kam un korelnd soldat habiet ghohden kwehre to. In id miniature mund os Xuchotl, ielgo quat em jenchis eet un heir ed ia tuicha dikhliz inter ia castells eent id land ep-yod maneuvreer ia armees in weir. 
Alter mohn de tod wekwos unte un khvil. 
* Suppose destrugmos Xotalanc dank ir hehlp, quod tar	jinkdousiet, Xatmec ? 
* Tunghi, antwohrd so, sehsiemos ein rudh gwozd pro ielg	tim qui habsien' nohcen. I de bardachens aydhsiemos gwiv,	skehnsiemos ed kwetwerdeilsiemos. 
* Bet poskwo ? Nabahsit alter. Oins kun habsiemos	nic' vasyens ? Niet ses stragno viwehse aun piends weightu ?	Unte mien hol jumiung ho io katuet protiev i Xotalancas ed ho haisst	i. Oins kun id cruoric weir sessiet khatem, quod siet etilikwes	nos ? 
Xatmec plex. Eys men hieb naiwo litto trans id perneicen iren peinds. Ia khiek lites trans. 
Stayg, bo wirs oistohv aurnd-ye un blosk ocolo id dwor. 
* Ei dwor, Xatmec ! Stris quoter hieb wohkwn ka	senter. Vahm spehce per id Ok...
Xatmec, einsghesor, glehmerih sien auro protiev id bronzen portal, se strehngend ad akowsie per id metall. Eyso driug spohc do id specule. Is convulsive-ye sprud. Wirs waurs ocolo id dwor ; buxianxu individus, samt sombre lige, sehrnd ir eins inter ir dents... samt finghers sehta do ir aurs. Oin ex iens, qui vohs un ptorcovohrn kufya, hieb un assortiment om chalumeaus is enderghens behre do sien lipps, ed menxu ies Tecuhltlis sa-crier id alerte, ia chalumeaus dugh ira strident swons. 
Id crie mohr in id gurgule ios guarde kun id stragn ed tenu motive tohr id metallic dwor ed gwohm ad hihes eys aurs. Xatvmec knigv protiev id sten, kam petrifiet ed khakend mithes position. Eys lige eet tod uns dreun statue, eys wajkho tod uns wir qui aurt un nukwt swon. Alter guarde, pierner, khiss yed id horror os quo eet jinkdound, id sombre menace skipen ab id demoniak motive quod sielgit tod chalumeau. Is kwahsit ia curieus notes dehre kam invisible finghers ia tissues os sien kers, submergend iom med negnohn sensations ed dementia impulses. Bet unte un atmenrehftil effort is ghohd se substrage ex id charmen quod paralysit id ed emiss un alarme crie med un voc is ne recognih ka sieno. 
Kun is oiswohr tod heul, id music se transformit do un dusbohr superacut swon quod bieur eys aurtavans kam un khandjar. Xatmec oiscricit sub id cutt os un staygo gvol, ed raison disprohp ex eys lige kam un kier biht blahn sgwesen ab id wind. Kam un dement, is liv akster-ye id ek, ghyien gvalt-ye id dwor ed se precipitit do id dikhliz, swehngend sien eins pre eyso driugo ghehdiet ei stambhes. Decen miechen iom nigvohn. Jambend eys cadaver, tem maungi Xotalancas enghulf do id guardensall, emittend un cruorlasni heulen quod ne stopit ed se repercussit samt stragn echos. 
Sien kers vankend sub id schock os quo is hieb just viden, senter guarde klieupit perodh kyant sien hajoumers, swehngend sien weirlance. Id horror ios vraj quos weitwodd is hieb just esen eet submergen ab id insaf od i peinds hieb just penetret Tecuhltli. Ed kun eys lance dyohgw id gventer uns duschman, is wois neideti unghi einso skrit in un treiccruce ed bohng eys ghalv menxu follokwi jenchis rusch ex ia nieber kyals do id guardensall. 
Buir id heul iom wirs ed id behngos os stal qua klaupihr Conan ex eys cubh, perfect-ye protiebuden ed einsghesor. Unte oin instant hieb is naken id dwer, quod id niek unte oin schtoss. Is oispohc extro kun is vis Techotl accurre, eys okwi bleigend med un dussaun diutis. 
* I Xotalancas ! Hul is med un voco quod ne hoeb	maungo mensclik. Hant upermarchen id dwor !
Conan elien-se do id dikhliz kun Valeria sielg sien kamer. 
* Quod iblis wakyet ? Prokiel ia iom.
* Techotl sayct i Xotalancas hant enbrohgen, antwohrd is	in plen hast. Tod kwalay kwecto confirmet to. 
Apterpersnet ab iom Tecuhltli, irrupeer do id thronsall ed wohs confronten uni scene quos horror udgierg id delirantsto drehm om cruor ed follia. Dwogim wirs ed gwens, sword kays in id hava, samt un albh ghalv pigen ep ir torso, comwigh i weikers Tecuhltlis. Ias gwens om bo factions katuer tem gver-ye quem ies wirs, ed in id sall ed id dikhliz apter i strahr cadavers. 
Olmec, nogwo ploisko un lendvkatan, wigh ant sien thron, ed kun bo aventurers entreer, Tascela addrahsit ex un inner kamer, einsghesor. 
Xatmec ed eyso driug hieb nohcen ; eetghi nimen kay sayge im Tecuhltlims quosmed ir peinds hieb kamyapt entre ir citadell. Ne meis quem i ghohd woide quo hiebit pussiren ir ghieters tei demential hajoum. Bet ia leusa im Xotalancas hieb esen importanter, ir situation desperater quem quo i Tecuhltlis fikreer. Id mohrt es ir squamtwac allieit, id destruction ios Ardent Ghalv ed id khabar, mohlden in eys ramak ab uno mehrnd, od mysterieus blankcuit allieits hieb joint ir peind, hieb trohngen i do id anun om aunspehia ed gver gwaukania os nehce gvehnend-ye ir awens ghieters. 
Ies Tecuhltlis, prev id inkapemschock os surprise, quod hieb swaurgen i do id thronsall, linkwnd ir cadavers oistrahe id swol, riposteer med un tem katel furor, menxu ies guardes ex ia niter etages arriveer heulend-ye kay rusches do id melee. Eet id katu tiel nehc em rarzend wolfs, blind, kwehswent, zalim combat. Id schiau ios boi strohm in ed ex id dwer do id podium, miecha sciss ed dyohgweer krewos, cruor gwohl, peds impresseer-se do id kirmiz swol quer wierdheer dar-ye rudher padwls. Ivortables buir supiht, sedds fiss, zamtbehangs rohft ed cruorpoik. Eet id culminanto moment uns cruorlasni pwolsecule, ed ielg present anghen khiss to. 
Bet id conclusion eet nevergible. I Tecuhltlis eent amalan dwis kathirer quem ir invasors, ed tod fact im dahsit courage, tem quem id arriven do id boi iren blankcuit allieits. 
Ti se precipiteer do id melee samt id harbeffect uns hurkan mettend un brouteckenbunge. In brutto nerce, i Tlazitlans eent nakis face iom saul Conan, ed speit sien vyige, is eet meg meis agil quem quelkwe ex i. Is trohc per id strehtum tos oiswehrbhend masse med id swekwria ed id katel efficience uns greis wolf medsu un meute em melez, linkwnd apter se un sohlko gastalten qui kriemp ghomi. 
Valeria katuit nieb iom, samt smeih ep sien lipps ed flamboyant okwi. Ia eet nerter quem uno mutawassit wir, ed meg meis oku ed gver. In ays hand, ays eins bihsit un gwiv ject. Quer Conan criesch cada oppositiono med pur nerce ed id stieure sienen cutts, brehgend ia lances, findend ia ghalvs ed dvehrnd ia xiongbus tiel id sternum, Valeria enovrit un fehkhtfieyne quod blins ed desconcertit ays duschmans pre ia nic i. Pelus, un jenchi qui swohng ub sien gwaur eins trohv id ak ios miech ias pirate dyehgwnd sien collveine pre is ghehdiet plage. Conan, udbulandend id walu, gress eni id confus masse, heihnd levtro dextro, bet Valeria trohcit kam una neseizet specter, bfuyi mutapositionend, plagend med naked ed khar twehrelnd-ye. Einsa eelileipsent iam ; ia miecha aysen hajoumers fiss kenos ed ies nohc, ays miecho dyehgwnd ir kerd au gurgule ed ays derisionsgleimen do ir aurs. 
I ziyan wighs enderkwit neter sexe ni condition. Ias penkwe gwens im Xotalancas lyohgeer ghom, samt tohmt gurgule, pre Conan entrit id melee, ed kun un wir au un gwen collieb medsu i wighs, eet semper uno kniv parat pro els aundefense coll au un sandaluwen ped kay trudes tod ghalv still ep id swol. 
Ex uter mur do alter, ex uter dwer do alter, schieusit id katuvoln, quod upertrohd tiel do ia adjacent kyals. Mox tik i Tecuhltlis ed ir blankcuit allieits oistahr in id thronkielken. I survivers oispohc mutu, pall ed sliep, kam bohrgen ex id Sensto Judcement au id fin ios mund. Samt mulayim-ye ghohngen jambs, hands greipend srakut ed cruorsmeu einsa, aserng sreund ghom ira brakhs, i spohc mutu inter ia kowps iom cadavers iren peinds ed prients. I neti hieb kafi annem pro crie, bet un bestial ed demential heul gwohl ex ir lipps. Ne eet uno mensc triumph crie. Eet id heul unios meute em rarzend wolfs quod oistohmbh inter ia cadavers iren victims. 
Conan kiep Valerias brakhs ed volgih iam. 
* Has un vurnos ep tien saur, brohm is.
Ia spohcit ghom, insafend ye id prest ker un edel gvol in ia muscles os ayso jamb. Semis mehrnd hieb dyohgwt med id miecho sienios khandjar ka sensto geste os agonia. 
* Ed tu samkwehcs un kassab, ieyit ia gleihnd-ye.
Is oiscussit sien hands, aumbernd cruor ambh se. 
* Ne mieno. Oh, un grobos her ed cer. Neid besweurghend.	Bet tod saur dehlc' bihe bandagen.
Olmec tohr id kelim em mortus, kwehkend kam un goul samt sien cruorpoik massive omsa ed sien kirmizkerber sword berd. Eys okwi eent rudh, kam id inikas uns flamme ep kyehrsen flutts. 
* Hams vicen ! Grokit is in un vertigo. Id cruoric	weir est khatem ! I kwauns os Xotalanc han' nohct ! Oh,	quod ne dahiem kay habe un prisoner ad skehne gwiv ! Lakin est	sell dyies ir mortu liges. Dwogim mortu kwauns ! Dwogim rudh	gwozda pro id sword stolb !
* Kaur petis de tien vurn' driugs, brohm Conan	disvolgend-ye ud iom. Skehpt, bent, sine me vide tod jamb. 
* - Minute ! (Ia repuls iom med un impatiento geste.	Id jar os combato dar blig samt id sam intensitat in id budmen os	ays atmen.) Quosmed ghehdmos wey ses yakin od hams nicen vasyens ?	Kad ti han' lancet un raid ex ir wi initiative. 
* - Ne habien' divis ir forces pro talg raid, declarit	Olmec oiscuttend-ye sien cap, retrehvend lyt ex sien normal	intelligence. (Aun sien purpwr robe, is kwohk minter kam un peurst	quem kam sem repugnant predator.) Enpandiem mien cap ad zanchoue od	hams nicen vasyens. Eent minter kathirer quem quo fikrim, ed solleer	khissen trohngen do ir sens' limite. Bet quosmed hant i kwohrn kay	upermarche ia murs os Tecuhltli ? 
Tascela stohmbh, tiergend sien eins ep sien nogwod bemern ; ia dohrj in sien alter hand un oblect ia hieb lwon ex id cadaver ios ptorvehsend poti'm Xotalancas. 
* Ia chalumeaus os follia, ieyit ia. Un jenchi mi hat	sayct od Xatmec hat ghyanen ia dwers dind bihsit nic' menxu i	enghulf do id guardensall. So jenchi hieb arriven do tod sall jus'	barwak' kay vide quo jinkdousit ed aure ia sens' notes uns music qua	han' glohdjt eys-pet atmen. Mehmo od Tolkemec tolkit de ta	chalumeaus, ed i Xuchotlans kassiem een' perbohrgen semloc in ia	catacombes, medsu id nugwrnt iom brukhs quoy kien ia unte ir	jumiung. Semkam hant ti kwauns ex Xotalanc trohven ia ed ucen ir	secret.
* Semanghen dehlgiet gwahe Xotalanc ed vide an sont	survivers, iey Conan. Gairn gwahsiem sei semanghen acceptet guide	me. 
Olmec spohc jaldi i survivers os sien folk. Eent ne meis quem dwogimtia ed plurs lyohgeer ghomi steunend-ye. Tascela eet ia saul im Tecuhltlis qua hieb nohsen aunvurnos. Ia peurstin eet aundamn esdi ia hieb katueto tem gver-ye quem alters. 
* Quel hamraht Conan tiel Xotalanc ? Sprohg Olmec.
Techotl skibhit perodh. Eys vurnos ep eys bemern hieb sohrgyen ed is hieb alyo tohma skeir ep sien reibs. 
* Ego !
* Io refuse, ei bien Conan. Nischi tu, Valeria. Tien jamb	vaht mox karakhe. 
* Ego gwahsiem, propos un jenchi qui zabandagit sien	sciss bagu. 
* Meg gohd, Yanath. Abgwah con iom Kimri. Ed tuschi	Topay. (Olmec dik alyo wir quos vurnsa eent superficial) Bet preter,	hehlpte me ad ayre ti vurnens kay ghehdmos lyiges i ep ta cubhs kay	ilaje ir vurnsa. 
To buit kwohrn jaldi. Menxu se clihr kay ayre un gwen qua hieb est niterplact med un wagher, Olmecs berdo strip Topays aur. Kwohk ad Conan od is peurst murmurit semject ei jenchi, bet is khiek ses yakin de. Oik instants serter, Topay nih sien sokwis do id bud ios dikhliz. 
Conan glaz retro kun is uperghieng id soyl, spehcend tod mazbakh ed tod flamboyant swol stern samt cadavers, ia maura cruorpoik memsa ed, creispus unte un lyut effort, ia sombre liges pact in maska os haines, glasic okwi qua spohc ia glend ogwnpetras qua miedh id horrible scene do un spectral ed regwosto subglendo diutis. Ies gwivs moveer inter i mortus, stehmbhend aunziel, kam in trance. Conan ieur Olmec kale un gwenak ed wehle iam bandage Valerias jamb. Ia pirate sohkwit iam bentu do uno nieber kyal. Ia hieb ja biskibht. 
Samt megsta tadbirs, bo Tecuhltlis duxeer Conan unte id dikhliz trans id bronzen portal, tehrnd un succession kyalen qua luc sub id glend luce. Ies vis nimen, ieur neid blosk. Pos tehrus id Mier Galerie quod separit id norddeil ud id suddeil, buir dar meis prudent, dat ies gwohm proscher id peindo territorium. Bet kyals ed dikhliz obkwohk tuich iri spect, ed vighohdeer do uno muzlim-ye beluct mier galerie ; stahr still ant un bronzen portal samlik ei Ornddwor im Tecuhltlis. Pusceer delicate-ye ia plabs, qua ghyahr aunblosko sub id pressem iren finghern. Impresst, spohceer ia kielkens qua stahr apter, madhend in id glend luce. Nel Tecuhltli hieb entren hetro pon penkgim yars, ploisko i prisoners qui vahr incontre ir horrible fat. Gwahe do Xotalanc eet id ultim coschmar quod ghohd menace un mensc ios westcastell. Id terror tos eventualitat eehanteneut ira drehms pon ir yunsto miegve. Pro Yanath et Topay, tod portal samkwohk id kankel os hayd. 
Ies oistiup retro bayasen-ye, un aunnam terror in id budmen iren okwi, Conan udgress iens in id gordos os Xotalanc. 
Iom sohkweer timid-ye. Menxu bo wirs trohd uter pos alter id soyl, is ambhspohc, chehxend id decor. Bet tik ir kwehsend ed oistridend respirations gwohm ad perturbe id silence. 
Ies wohs in un vast guardensall, samkwehkend quod lyohg apter id Ornddwor Tecuhltlis. Ye id sam weidos, un dikhliz ablit tetos, ducend uni kielken quod eet id replic ios thronsall os Olmec. 
Conan glaz do id sall, ids kelims, ids coucha ed ids behangs, still, akowsiend. Is ieur neid blosk ed ia kyals kwohk desert. Is ne mohn od etilikw un gwiv Xotalanca in Xuchotl. 
* Gwehmte, muticit is elanend-ye se kyid dikhliz.
Is ne hieb ghangen meg perodh kun is vighieb od tik Yanath iom sohkwit. Is pivotit ed dyohrc Topay qui stahsit in un horrifiet attitude, un brakho rect perodh kam kay pare sem tehrgen quod vahsit rusches ep iom, sien okwi forstehlbend oistarnd in un hypnotic intensitat ad semjecto quod stahsit apter un couch. 
* Quod iblis... ?
Dind Conan vis tod ad quod Topay oistier ed is khiss un kreus andhe eys olbjimomsa. Uno mustring cap forstohlb ex apter id couch, un reptilcap, tem weur quem tod uns crocodile, samt kehmb edonts qua niek els niter ghyanu. Bet id hieng ye un abnormal weidos ed ia hideus okwi eent glasic. 
Conan spohc apter id couch. Ter lyohg unis mier serpent, pact in nehc, bet un serpent kam naiwo hieb is viden sem in id druna sienen wandern. Id thampf ed id srigos ios kyehrsen anun os ghom emaneer ex el, ed id spalv os els twac eet indefinible, se modifiend sekwent id vidangule. Uno mier vurnos in els coll dixit quo hieb suwen els nehc. 
* Est el Rempend Ses ! Murmurit Yanath.
* Est id ject ho hacken in id drab, brohm Conan. Pos el	nos hat sohkwn tiel id Ornddwor, el hat-se sohlken hetro kay mehre.	Quosmed ghohd i Xotalancas controle solg creature ? 
Ies Tecuhltlis krus ed scuss ir caps. 
* Han' dughen el ex ia kyehrsen tunnels qua lyehge ender	ia catacombes. Hant aunstohc' secrets negnohn ab i Tecuhltlis.
* Zowngschie es' mortu, ed sei esient alyi, habient	bright i con se kun hant attaquen Tecuhltli. Gwehmte ! 
Iom apterpersneer menxu is gress unte id dikhliz ed puscit id argwrntsmilen dwer ye alter bors. 
* Sei trehvmos nimen ye tod etage, iey is, steighsiemos	ghom do ia niter etages. Siemos explore Xotalanc ex krov do	catacombes. Sei Xotalanc samkwehct Tecuhltli, vasya kyals ed dikhliz	tos nivell sessien' belucen... Iblis !
Ies hieb just penetren id vasto thronkielken, quod eet amalan id replic tos os Tecuhltli. Id sam aschabak podium, ia sam filkursiys, ia sam coucha, kelims ed behangs ep ia murs. Ye, eet neid neid rudhghirsto swordo stolb apter id uperalen thron, yed ne mienk ia pruvs ios longios cruoric katu. 
Ardeht engwn ia murs apter id takhta, lyohg roigs om gjias protegen med schibs. Ed ep ta, centens om menscencaps, perfect-ye conservet, spohc iens abstaunihn visitors med ir aunwajkha liges, ed tik i divs wois pon kamdiu eespehcneunt it. 
Topay emiss un stupt rughat, bet Yanath remien silent ed id dementia diutis in id budmen eysen okwi. Conan brovit, woidend od id raison iom Tlazitlans sa-brohg. 
Stayg, Yanath pfohrst med un tremblant fingher ia buxianxu reliquia. 
* Est id cap miens brater ! Murmurit is. Ed ter, tod	ios yuner brater miens pater ! Ed ter, tod ios veuter brater as	mien swester !
Is tun bisluct, plangend aun dakrus ; kaurd ed swehner sleucts qua scuss eys hol carcasse. Is ne lu sien okwi ud ia caps. Eysa sleucts bihr superacut ed se transformeer do un terrifiant gleimen, quod ep sien roig bihsit un dusbohr heul. Yanath hiebit bihn alnos foll. 
Conan dehsit uter hand ep eys oms ed, kamsei tod mer contact habiet lurn id hol furor arct eni eys atmen, Yanath hul ed vols akster-ye, plagend iom Kimri med sien eins. Conan parit id cutt ed Topay tentit immobilise id brakh os Yanath. Bet is dement vergihsit id ed, samt spoimend lipps, sehsit sieno miecho deubsto do Topays corpos. Senter collapsit emittend-ye un steun, ed Yanath pivotit ep seswo unte oik instants, kam un foll darwisch. Dind is precipitit-se kya gjias ed plieg ia schibs med sieno miecho heulend-ye blasphemies. 
Conan klieup kyom aptos, peitend-ye iom surprindes udstraj ed desarme iom, bet is dement vols ed rusch kyom, heulend kam un azapt atmen. Ghabend is jenchi hiebit bihn alnos foll, is Kimri stiup gontro ed menxu is dement rusch pri iom, is sehsit sieno miech per tos oms ed torso. Is wir collapsit ghom, prokwem sien agonisant victim. 
Conan se clihsit uper Topay, vidend is wir sal-ann sien ramak. Eet inutil pites oistankes id cruorflutt quod dohn ex id horrible vurnos. 
* Sa-nehcs, Topay, brohm Conan. Has tu un senstwerd ad	transmitte tienims ?
* Clihne te lyt prokwem, kwohs Topay. 
Conan dostrig tod vansch... ed oin instant serter siz is id runc ios wir menxu so tentit dyehgwe eyso xiongbu med sien daga. 
* Crom ! Rughiet Conan. Has tuschi biht foll ?
* Olmec hat wohl' me to ! Kwohs is mehrnd. Ne woidim	ma. Kun ieyram i vurnens kay lyiges i ep ia cubhs, is mi hat	murmuret ke te nehciem kun reikiemos kye Tecuhtli...
Ed samt id nam siens clan ep sien lipps nohc Topay. 
Conan brovit kun is iom spohc, desconcerten. Tod hol storia ei kwohk delirant. Hieb isschi Olmec follascen ? Eent i Tecuhltlis dar foller quem quo is mohn ? Plectus, is retohr id dikhliz ed trans id bronzen dwor, linkwnd apter se ia cadavers iom Tecuhltlis quoy lyohg sub ia mortu okwi iren nityen. 
Conan wienit nel guide kay retrehve id itner unte id labyrinth quod ies hieb kwohrt kay gwehme. Eyso yeamban instinct ei permiss oriente-se aun probleme. Is iendh ia dikhliz samt tem maung tadbir, einsghesor, parchehxend lyut-ye ielg kantun ed cotlan, sienghi prever allieits mistrus is tuntos, ne i kabus im mortu Xotalancas. 
Is hieb just gwaht unte id Mier Galerie ed ghieng perodh in ia kyals ocolo tod kun is ieur id blosk os semjecto quod trohc ant iom... Semjecto quod kwohs ed suffoquit, stehmbhend samt stragna bloska, kamsei titubiet ed tundiet protie ia murs. Oin instant serter, Conan dyohrc un wir qui rep kyom ep id flamboyant swol.... Un wir qui progress linkwnd apter se un weru cruoric sohlk ep id kirmiz grund. Eet Techotl ed eys okwi inkiep ja bihe glasic ; ex un deub arus in eyso xiongbu dohn regular-ye un cruorflutt inter eysa sohrt finghers. Is hohlp se med sien alter hand kay se sehlke perodh ep id swol.
* Conan, scricit is in un stupen sleuct. Conan !	Olmec hat kapen iam gehlbkays gwen !
* Itak hat is wohlen Topay nices me ! Muticit Conan,	ponend uter genu nieb iom wir (Eys experimenten ok manthih iom od is	eet mehrnd.) Olmec ne eet tem foll quem io mohn. 
Ia ambhtastend finghers os Techotl siz id brakh os Conan. In id druna ios srigios gwit, aun liubh ed fin-ye alnos horrible ios Tecuhltli, eys admiration ed affection pro i intrusens ex id exomund hieb skipt un oasis os menscwierme, hieb yuct iom uni naturaler menscgenos, quod eet complete-ye absent ud eys samliks, quim emotions limiteer-se ad haines, envie ed uni sadiste crueltat. 
* Ho stabhskwn iom, gnur Techotl, un cruorspoim salgend	sien lipps. Bet is hat upergihn me. Is mohn gvehnus me, bet ho	abrept. Ah Set, kam dalgtro ho io repen in mien wi sehrg!War Conan !	Kad Olmec volt embuskes te ep tien reiken ! Neic Olmec !	Est un gver. Ghend Valeria con te ed feucte ! Mae bayte tehre	id forest. Olmec ed Tascela han' lugh' dei ogvis. Han' nicen mutu	yars prever ed vasyi han' mohr' ploisko el nert ex i. Est ne meis	quem oin ogvi pon douzen yaren. Sei yu habte nicen el, yu neti habte	semjec' baytu in id forest. El eet el div quel Olmec dyin, qui al	mieul menscsacrifices, i yunstens ed veutstens ex nos, diemmen ed	xubhen exter ia murs ios citad. Ag oku ! Olmec hat abduc'	Valeria do id kamer....
Eys cap sohnk ed is mohrit pre id touchit id swol. 
Conan klieup ub ed eys okwi eent kam geuls. Eno-sim ieg Olmec, pos folossievs sien allieits kay pernices sien peinds ! Is habiet tohrpt aume od solg ject bihsit spohnt in id budmen ios kers tos swordberdios degener. 
Is Kimri abspohd bogaturic-ye kye Tecuhltli. Is vohrt jaldi id numer sienen prever allieits. Eent tik dwogimoin, pati Olmec, qui hieb surviven id terrible boi in id thronkielken. Tri alyi hieb nohct entrim, quoghi likwit septdem ranwet ghieters. In sien rage, Conan khiss ghehdend drehde id holo clan ed nices vasyens. 
Bet id ignahn hila quod est id apanage im creatures gwivend exter civilisation uperwohnd eys blind furor. Is mohm ia werds os Techotl qui mieun iom de un embusk. Meis quem shayad hieb is peurst it prekaurt, agar Topay deuysiet dostringes eys wehlen. Olmec exspectit meg aweis is reikiet unte id itner is hieb kwohrt kay gwahe Xotalanc. 
Conan spohc ub kyun luckern sub-yod is prighieng ed dyohrc id kohldern tweisen iom stars. Ne hiebeer bad bipallasct prosch id octent. Ia noctwakyas hieb jinkdoun unte uno nisbatan cort sunyin. 
Is abvic ud id directst itner ed oistighit ghom un spiraldrab pre arrive ei niter nivell. Is ne wois quer stahsit id portal quod permiss entre id castell ye tod etage, bet is gnohsit is ghehdiet trehve id. Punor, is wois quosmed is ghehdiet dwinghes ia perchins ; is mohn vasya dwers Tecuhltlis esient andamen, maghses tik oin pwolsecule om adets. Bet eet neid alyo kwehrtu quem tente sien chance. 
Einsghesor, is meg spohd perodh ed aunblosk in uno meirong om kyals ed dikhliz, ein pos ein belucen we mergen in temos. Is ghieb is eet meg perodh Tecuhltli, kun un blosk iom brigh stayg ad oistahe still. Is recognihsit id pro quo id eet : unis mensc tentend emitte un crie menxu el eet stohmstuppen. To gwohm ex semloc ant iom, levter quem is. In ia kyals mers in un silence os mohrt, id lytst blosko ghohd bihe aurn dalgtos. 
Conan tour ed gwahsit kyid blosk, quod continuit se repetihes. Pau pos, is oispohc per un dwer ed aunstohg un curieuso spectacle. Medsu id kyal wohs un desbulando metallic structure, quod samkwohk un strehcbenk. Un gigantesk gastalt eet immobilisen ep id. Els cap lyohg ep uno menghia om isern aks quom borsa eent ja rudht quer ia hieb transbaurt id scalp. Un sorte os khath rig els cap, yoitkwe id lietern koriga ne protexit id ud ia aks. Tod khath eet ye sien roigo yugen med un catnel uni mecanisme quod oistohm un enorm isern ball quod hieng uper id weulost torso ios prisoner. Tan is wir ghehdiet remane still, id isern ball ne moviet. Bet ielgs kun ia gvols infligen ab ia isern aks livih iom eys cap, id enorm isern ball stighit ghom unte oik incha. Ia gvolend muscles ios coll ios victim neti proe-tehlient eys cap in un tem abnormal position, ed is siniet id retrofalle id ep ia aks. Okwivid-ye vitreudiet iom id isern ball, ed iom mehliet lent-ye, inexorable-ye. Is victim eet stohmstuppen, uper tod stohmstupp eys mier gwowin okwi rolleer gver-ye kyom wir qui stahsit ep id soylo ios kayl ed natieyc ob hayriene. 
Is wir ep id strehcbenk eet Olmec, peurst os Tecuhltli. 
VI 
Tascelas okwi 
* Ma has tu brigh' me do tod kamer kay bandage mien	jamb ? Sprohg Valeria. Kwe ne habies maghen tem suakwehre to in	id thronkielken ?
Ia sess ep un cubh, sien vurnen jamb regen perodh, ed Tecuhltli hieb just bandaget id med un kumasch. Id cruorrudhen eins as Valeria lyohg nieb iam, ep id cubh. 
Ia brovit kun ia bahsit. Ia gwen hieb tyict sien tasko silent-ye ed efficient-ye, bet Valeria kiemit neter kam ays teuneg finghers kung ep ays corpos kam in un caresse, ni id wajkh in ays okwi. 
* Hant tobohrt id reste im vurnens do alter kamers,	antwohrd ia gwena med id tawrlien voc iam tecuhltli stern, quod	lakin reflegit neid swiedhe ni natural karam (pau wakt prever,	Valeria hieb viden tam sam gwen dyehgwe med sien khandjar id pizdan	uns peindin ed rehve ia okwi uns vurnt). Eti, gwut ia, vahnt tobehre	ia cadavers do ia catacombes, ib ir kabus antsalge ed mane kat hante	ia kyals.
* Credeihs tu in kabus ? Iam sprohg Valeria. 
* Woidim od is kabus os Tolkemec hantet ia catacombes,	antwohrd ia kreusend-ye. Ho viden iam, oins, menxu io skulk inter ia	osta uns mortu rayn. Hant swohbhen pri me sub id forme uns kwitberd	geront, samt leikend kays ed gwayder okwi, bleigend in id temos. Eet	druve-ye Tolkemec : io hieb viden iom oins gwiv, quan eem magv,	menxu is bihsit torturen. (Ays voc schrohnk do uno mer pauric	murmure) Olmec gleiht, bet woidim od is kabus os Tolkemec hantet ia	catacombes ! Saygent nu-ghyanuent i rats id krewos tim qui hant	jus' mohrn... bet kabus weuxe ep krewos. Quel woid od...
Ia spohc jaldi ub dat un skadh hieb fallt skeir ep id cubh. Valeria spohc ub ep sien roig ed vis Olmec qui glexit iam. Is peurst hieb abdehn id cruor ud sien hands, berd ed torso ; bet is ne hieb endun sien robe, ed eys buland corpos samt maur cuit ed memsa kyunggiiew id pondos os bestial nerce quod emanit ex eys person. Eys sword ed deub okwi ieydh med un dar elementarer jar, ed eys finghers trembleer menxu ia protietrieg eys teug swordblou berd. 
Is oistier ay gwenak ed sa stahsit ub ed snohg ex id kamer. Kun ia uperghieng id soyl, ia glaz epter sien oms kye Valeria med un spect pleno med cynic derision ed un obscene goilen. 
* Ia ne hat suawohrgen, critiquit is peurst, gwehmend	proscher id cubh ed se clihnend kyid bandage. Sine me vide...
Samt un stauneihnd syrat pro un wir siens corpulence, is siz id einso ias gwenak ed xubh id ocolo id kyal. Eyso sehkwndo geste buit ghende Valeria do sien olbjimbrakhs. 
Tem oku ed staygo quem hieb esen eyso geste, ia buit quasi tem kshiuu ; menxu is lambh iam, ays long khandjar eet in ays hand ed ei bir un katel cutt kyid gurgule. Meis per chance quem per dexia, is kiep ays runc ed un terrible katu stiert. Ia wigh iom med sien peungsta, sien peds, sien genus, sien dents ed sien onkha, med id hol nerce os sien schungjin corpos, ed med id hol kerdos ios corps-ad-corps combat hassilen unte sien yars om wander ed bois landi kam mari. Bet to hol dieughit ka neid face id brutal nerce os ays duschman. 
Leusus sieno miech yant in-kap id katu, ia wohs khakend inflige quodgvonc apokwiti sieni gigantesk ghieter. 
Id flamme in id budmen iom stragn okwi Olmecs ne alterit-se ed ir wajkho, decuplen ab id spoctic smeih quod kwohk ficten ep eys barbut lipps, plehsit Valeria med rage. Ta okwi ed smeih mathmouneer id hol enderlyehgend cruel cynisme os un sophisticat ed degener race ed, ye id prest ker siens gwit, Valeria wois quo eet baye un wir. Eet kam vrikstes protiev un irresistible elementar force ; ia isern brakhs uperdohl ays quant efforts samt un facilitat quod yis panique wands per ays quanta memsa. Is kwohk rhayr-kheissas quanta gvols ia ghohd ei inflige. Is reieg ye tik oino moment, kun ia sehsit wild-ye sien kwita dents do eys runc, hina sreuihes cruor. 
Ed eys reaction buit ay bires un staur schamar ep id gian, gwehlihes stars ant ays okwi ed yeisend ays cap ad hurtes ays oms. 
Ays camiss hieb esen dohrn unte id katu ed samt un cynic crueltat ghnihsit is sien teug berd ep ays nogwo pizdano, prehpeihnd cruorsohlks ep ays clar cuit ed rehvend ex iam un crie om gvol ed outragegrassab. Ays convulsive resistence eet inutil ; ia buit tackeln gvalt-ye ep id cubh, desarmen ed kwehsend, ed ays okwi spohc ub kyom, aydhchald kam ta uns kapanen tighrin. 
Oin instant serter sielg is precipitation-ye id kyal, behrnd iam in sien brakhs. Ia nel-ye resistit, bet id diutis quod gluhsit in id budmen aysen okwi dik ia eet dar invicen, bariem moral-ye. Ia hieb emitten neid crie. Ia wois od Conano ne eet ye kalschaecheing ed ay ne enfiell an quelgvonc in Tecuhltli deursiet diwides sien peurst. Bet ia kieusit od Olmec stohmbhit nin-ye, clihnend sien cap kamsei is akowsiciet ye id lyogher uns eventual signe os persehkwen, ed is ne gwahsit kyid thronkielken. Dar dehrjend iam gwenak inter sien brakhs, is uperghieng id dwer witerom tod unte-yod is hieb arrivet, tohr un dwot kyal dind perodh unte un dikhliz. Tuntos persuas is biey an semanghen diweidiet tod rapt, ia slah sien cap retro ed hul honarst-ye. 
Ia buit mizdt med un schamar quod pwol-niterplieg iam, ed Olmec spohd, pwoldrahnd-ye. 
Bet ays crie hieb daken un echo ed, xyangend gontro, Valeria, in id seuy om dakrus ed stars quod pwolblins iam, vis Techotl biskimbhes apter i. 
Olmec abgir emittend-ye un brohm. Is passit iam gwenak sub uter brakh ed it dehsit iam in un tem incomfortable quem indecent menxu ia kriemp ed se strubh in vain kam una magv. 
* Olmec ! Protestit Techotl. Ne maghs ses talg kwaun	hina durses kwehre to ! Est Conans gwen ! Nos hat hohlpen	ad nices i Xotalancas ed....
Aun werd, Olmec iengh sien dar leur hand ed plieg iom vurnt jenchi med sien gigantesk peungst, yeisend iom rolle ghomtro, inconscient. Is clih-se, nel-ye impedihn ab ia rughats ed ia kaphkalcs siens kaptias, exkardkiesch id miech os Techotl ed dyohgw id xiongbu ios jenchi med id khandjar. Dind is toxubh id weben ed fougyit unte id dikhliz. Is ne dyohrc id maur lige uns gwen qua observit iom discret-ye ex apter un behang. Id lige disprohp ed pau poskwo Techotl oistun ed sroht, pre stahe ub confus-ye ed abtitube, kalend Conan. 
Olmec gwahsit tiel id bors ios dikhliz ed oistighit ghom un ivoren spiraldrab. Is ih dind unte plur dikhliz ed vistopit in un vast kyal quos quanta dwers ploisko oin eent perbohrgen apter gwaur behangs : un gwaur aysen dwor samlik ei Ornddwor ios uber etage. 
Pfehrstend id, is khiek sib stambhes sayge, in un stump grohm : 
* Tod est oin iom dwors qua duce ex Tecuhltli. Ye id	prest ker pon penkgim yars, ne es' guarden. Neti tehrbmos guarde id	taiper, ar Xotalanc bayght id prev.
* Dank Conan ed me, tu murdar cruorlasni brute !	Rughiet Valeria, tremblend ob rage ed scham de ses tem achiz. Lughav	kwaun ! Conan tehmsiet tien gurgule ob to ! 
Olmec ne sib dahsit id difficultato de sayge ay is mohn od Conans wi gurgule hieb ja biht tohmt, sekwent quo is hiebit berult ye khafi voc. Is eet pior meg cynic pro se interesse semquayt ad quo ia mieyn we credih. Eys embras okwi periglexeer iam, keugend ardent-ye ep ia genereus plieutes os blank ed darmo krewos quer ays camiss ed ghiton hieb esen rohven unte id katu. 
* Myehrs Conan, iey is med un teug voc. Olmec est is	swamen os Xuchotl. Xotalanc neti exist. Neti sessient katus. Siemos	passe id reste os nies gwit ad drehnke ed yehbhe. Smad preter	drehnke !
Is sess ghom ep un ivortable ed attraxit iam ep eys grem, kam uno maurcuit satyr dehrjend un blanku nymphe in sien brakhs. Ignorend ays rughats qua nel-ye swohn kam ia lafza una nymphe habiet maghen swehre, is reduxit iam do achizia passend-ye uter miero brakh ambh ays lendvo menxu rexit alter kyid bors ios table ed lambh un flasken vin. 
* Drehnk ! Iam wohl is, behrnd id flasken sienims	lipps menxu ia kriemp ed diswohrt sien cap.
Id liquid sikw, pickend ays lipps ed aspergend ays nogwo pizdano. 
* Tien gosta ne kamt tien vin, Olmec, iey un srig ed	sardonic voc.
Olmec stohv ed un paurdiutis gnahsit in id budmen eysen enflammen okwi. Is wohrt lent-ye sien gwaur cap ed vispohc Tascela, qua stahsit neglegent-ye in id roup oinios iom behangdwers, uter hand ep sien urand cloin. Valeria kriemp, se strehngend ad se rehve ex id stalen strineg ed, kun ayso spect incontrit Tascelas aydhchald okwi, un kreus iendh ayso spina. Nov experiences submers Valerias mynder atmen ye tod noct. Ia hieb meg nuper ucen baye un wir, ed ia wois tuntos quo eet baye un gwen. 
Olmec na-sess still, ed un aschlik palloro prohp ep eys maur cuit. Tascela salgih sien alter hand ex apter se, deikend uno smulko golden flasken. 
* Ioghi biey ia ne kamt tien vin, Olmec, snurd ia	peurstin, itak ho brighen lyt ex mieno, tod io hieb brighen meg	diuper ex ia oupers os lac Zuad... Ghaps quo mayno, Olmec ?
Transpirationspaks prohp brusk-ye ep id chol os Olmec. Eys muscles distenseer-se. Valeria se rohv ex sien strineg ed dehsit id table inter iom ed se. Bet esdi raison ay porunc se precipite ex tod kyal, un fascination quod ia khiek sib explie manih iam, still, ad observe id scene. 
Tascela gwohm perodh kyom peurst, qui hieb remant sess, med un urand ed weundelnd gwayt, quod eet ja un goilen in se. Ays voc eet swadh, sneurdend, caressant, bet ays okwi twis. Ays teuneg finghers lik mulayim-ye ep eys berd. 
* Es egoiste, Olmec, ieyit ia med un langoreus voc, ed	sammel smih. Gwupskwist tien bell gostu pro te saul, hatta menxu tu	suawwoisst od entretinskwim iam. Has grave-ye prilipst, Olmec !
Id mask pohd unte oin schtoss ; ays okwi illumineer-se, ays lige kriemp ed, bevidend un incredible nerce, ays hando zaghyahsit convulsive-ye ep id berd ios peurst ed rohv tetos un plen quat om drighs. Tod demonstration os supernatural force ne eet terrifianter quem id fugitive revelation ios demoniak furor quod gluhsit sub ays impassible apparence. 
Olmec stahsit ub emittend-ye un baub ed biwip-se kam un urx, sien staur hands gneubhend ed disgneubhend. 
* Tu murdar pacharva ! Iey is med un balmlik voco	quod plehsit id kyal. Brukha ! Diablin ! Tecuhltli habiet	dohlgen nices te penkgim yars prever ! Abgwah tetos ! Ho	tohl' pior jects ob te ! Sa blankcuit kweil est miena !	Abgwah pre te neico !
Ia peurstin iliey ed xubh do eys lige eys cruorpoik berddrighs. Ays gleimen eet kaurder quem id swon os silex plagend stal. 
* Ne has semper saygen to, Olmec, nieydit ia iom. Prevst,	quan ees yun, mi sieycs' liubhwerds. Ya, me has liubhen prevst, yars	prever, ed ob me liubhst, has swohpt in mien brakhs sub id enchantet	lotus... placend it inter mien hands ia zangirs qua te buw mien	sclav. Woidst od ghehds neid protie me. Woidst od tik tehrbo spehce	do tien okwi, med id mystic magh un stygian pryster mi docit meg	diuper, ed tun bihsies reducen do achizia. Mehms tod noct, menxu id	sword lotus wundel uper nos aun od neid terran brise sreht id ;	tu neus iter exhale-se ed swehbhe hol perambh teia profumes qua ne	sont tos terra ed qua te beuwnt un sclav. Khacs diwides me. Es	mien sclav kam buist ye tod noct... ed kam sessies tando gwivsies,	Olmec os Xuchotl !
Ays voc hieb minct hina bihe uno murmure samlik ibs wands qua rauge id surface os un sreumen in id temos os un starbeluct noct. Ia se glehmerih protie iom peurst ed extensit sien long finghers ep id gigant xiongbu. Senters okwi bihr glasic ed eys mier hands nifiell moll-ye engwn eys corpos. 
Samt uno smeih os cruel malice, Tascela liv id flasken ed bohr id do Olmecs lipps. 
* Pohdi !
Is peurst obedih machinal-ye. Eys okwi retrohv instantan-ye ir normal aspect ed buir submersa sammel ab furor, id ghaben ios situation ed un terrible paur. Is ghyien plaut-ye sien stohm, bet neid swon sielg id. Unte oik secundes, is vienk ep jambs qua neti stohm iom, dind collapsit ghomtro kam uno masse. 
Eys fall rohvit Valeria ex ays narc. Ia vols ed klieup kyid dwer, bet med uno mov newirtic uns panther. Tascela se hieb interposen. Valeria plieg iam med sien clus peungst, dehnd sien hol nerce do tod choyko quod habiet niterplagen un wir. Bet med un urando torsion siens torso, Tascela exclihsit ed siz id runc ias pirate. Oin instant serter, Valerias levter hand bihsit kapt kathalika. Dehrjend bo runcs med oiter hand, Tascela diemm ia sakwn-ye med un seilo ia traxit ex sien yeusmen. Valeria mohn ia hieb ja subihn honoct vasya kwehndet humilations, bet id scham ia hiebit spruven kun Olmec dusmuamalit iam eent neid comparen ibs sensations qua scuss ays hol corpos. Valeria hieb esto semper pron ad honne tans os sien sexe ; ed iam uperkwohlm wehse confronten uni gwen qua ghohd belikes iam kamsei ia habiet esen nia meis quem una magv. Ia amalan nel-ye resistit kun Tascela ay dwigh sedde ep un stul dind, tragend ays bohndt runcs tiel inter ays genus, dieh ia ei kursiy. 
Jambend nonchalant-ye id corpos Olmecs, Tascela stiupit perodh-ye tiel id aysen dwer, liv id perchin ed ghyien id unte oin schtoss, revelend id dikhliz trans id. 
* Tod dikhliz, kauih ia, wehkwnd sien kaptu ye id prest	ker, duxit uni kyal quod dieugh prevs' ka torture sall. Kun hams	oisgwohmen do Tecuhltli, hams tobohrn con nos pleist instruments,	bet eet un apparat quod eet pior gwaur pro bihe desplacen. Es' dar	wehrgmon. Mehno id vaht obkwehke meg util taiper.
Un flamme om terror ed ghaben lahsit Olmecs okwi. Tascela stiup iter perodh kyom, clih-se ed siz eys kays. 
* Is est tik zanchey-ye srom, kieusit ia aun emotion. Is	ghehdt aure, mehne, khisses... Ya, ghehdt eti meg suakhisses !
Ed pos tod buxianxu observation, ia stiup iter kyid dwer, tragend id gigant carcasse samt un facilitat quod distarih iam pirate. Ia uperghieng id soylo ios dwer ed gwahsit do id kyal aun id lytst keungen, disprehpend pau poskwo con sien prisoner do un dwoter sall, ed quer udcliengh dind un isern clicken. 
Valeria hieb uno pnigen rughat ed protietraxit in vain sien seils, ghehngend sien jambs ep id stul. Ia seils qua bohnd iam eent meg pior resistant. 
Pau pos, Tascela rik saul ; apter iam uno pnigen brohm lud ex id kyal ye alter bors. Ia clus id dwer apter se aun perchine id. Tascela ne eet un creature om adets, tem quem ia eet meg dalg ud mensc emotions ed instincts. 
Valeria na-sessit silent, spehcend iam gwen inter-yas ghesors, ia ghieb, ays meinyun kih. 
Tascela siz aysa gehlb fitils ed ay dwigh slahmes ays cap retro, nispehcend ays lige impersonal-ye. Bet id diutis in id budmen aysen okwi eet holo ploisko impersonal. 
* Te ho chusen pro un megil honor, ieyit ia. Vahs	restaure Tascelas yuwent. Oh, tod spehcs ! Mien physic	apparence est tod os yuwent, bet kheisso ja id srigos os geros	bisrues adriug-ye in mien veines, kam ho ja khissen id tusents. Som	veut, tem veut quem ne mehmo mien miegve. Bet bium un gwenak prevst.	Un peurst os Stygia se enliubh de me ed mi dahsit id secret om	nemerto ed aiwic yuwent. Is mohr pau pos... sems clameer is hieb es'	poisont. Bet io mien in mien palat ep ia krants os lac Zuad, ed ia	passend yars ne me affeceer. Dind bad un peurst os Stygia me wohn ed	mien popule pamrlien ed me tonih do cid land. Olmec me hat kalt	« peurstin ». Ho neid royal aserng. Som meger quem un	peurstin. Som Tascela, quas yuwent vaht bihe restauret ab tien wi	yuwent.
Valerias dingvo glohmer protiev ayso geusmen. Ia khiss eet ter un mysteir dar sombrer quem id perversion quod ia hieb exspectet. 
Ia buland gwen lu ia runcs ias Aquilonian ed iam stauih. Ne id paur ios uber physic nerce ias peurstin reduxit Valeria do id stand as tremblant ed achiz kaptu inter ays ghesors. Nu-eent ia aydhchald, magnetic ed terrifiant okwi as Tascela. 
VII
Is qui gwehmt ex temos
* Ke bihm changet do Kushi ! Exclamit Conan	spehcend-ye iom wir ep id strehcbenk. Quod iblis kwehrs tu ep tod	jihase ?
Incoherent swons lud, pnict ab id stohmstupp. Conan clih-se ed rohv id, seuwnd un paurmugeihsa ud iom prisoner, todghi geste hiebit brusk-ye stighihn ghom id isern ball, quod eet tuntos amalan ye id nivell os eys weur xiongbu. 
* War, pro Sets liubh ! Iom iltijit Olmec
* Ed ma to ? Credeihs kauro de quo maght tib wakye ?	Habiem tik kam' habe id wakt os mane her ed os vide tod metallkowp	grehnde tien schkembeh. Bet dehlgo spehde. Quer es' Valeria ? 
* Leur me ! Iom urs Olmec. Tib saycsiem hol ! 
* Sayg mi preter. 
* Naiwo ! Iey is peurst cludend-ye inat-ye sien	ghyanus. 
* Meg gohd, iey is Kimri seddend-ye ghom ep uno meg	prokwem benk. Iam trehfsiem saul, oins kun habsies bihe reduc' do	gelee. Mehno dehlgo ghehde accelere id process sei wehrto id ak	miens miech do tien aur, gwut is, regend sien weben kay pites. 
* Skehpt ! Exclamit is prisoner ed ia werds	precipiteer-se ep eys kenaserng lipps : Tascela hat raben iam	ex me. Naiwo buim alyo quem un pupp srehtend ye id bors iom schnurs	as Tascela. 
* Tascela ? Brohm is Kimri pre spiues. Quod, sa	murdar...
* No, no ! Kwohs Olmec. Est meis khiter quem quo	credeihs. Tascela es' plur... plur seculat. Ia regeneret sien gwit	ed yuwent maulend-ye bell gwenaks. Est oin iom factors qua hant	reduct id clan do ids presen' stand. Ia vaht draine id ayu as	Valeria do sien wi corpos ed regnahe samt udnoven gwis ed beauteit. 
* Sont ia dwers perchinen ? Sprohgit Conan breukend	id khar siens einsios med sien fingherbors. 
* Ya ! Bet gnohm un weidos kay entre Tecuhltli. Tik	ia ed ego gnohms tod perigumt ed ia me credeiht reduct ad achizia ed	te, mortu. Leur me ed kassamo hehlpe te ad salve Valeria. Aun mien	hehlp, nies hatta ghehde entre Tecuhltli ; ar esdi me torturies	hina io tib revele id secret, ne ghehdies actione id mecanisme. Sine	me gwehme con te ed surprindsiemos ed neicsiemos Tascela pre ia	ghehdt tyices sien magia... pre ia ghehdt trehpe sien spect ep nos.	Un kniv lohnc' do ays regv sessiet kafi. Habiem tohrben gvehne iam	it meg diuper, bet io biey od aun ays hehlp, i Xotalancas	uperwehndien' nos. Iaschi tohrb mien hehlp ; est id saul sabab	bi quod ia me hat sisen gwuve tem diu. Taiper neti wanmos alter ed	oiter em nos dehlct mehre. Kassamo od kun habsiemos nict tam brukhu,	tu ed Valeria sessiete leur de abgwahe. Mien folk me obedeihsiet	oins kun Tascela habsiet nohcen. 
Conan se clihsit ed segit ia seils qua bohnd iom peurst. Olmec snohg tadbir-ye sub id taungh isern ball ed oistahsit ub, scuttend sien cap kam un taur ed katathematisend kun is passih sien finghers ep sien raghto scalp. Nieb mutu, bo wirs athime-ye skwiter sem auwal augos. Olmec eet tem buland quem Conan, bet massiver ; eet lakin semject repugnant bei Tlazitlan, semject abyssal ed mustring quod contrastit bfuryowkhow-ye con id compact rieuke ed id harmonieus corpos ios Kimri. Conan hieb abdehn ud se ia etiloikwa siens lumpic ed cruorpoikios camiss, revelend id athime muscular antslehnken siens pletwos. Eys mier omsa eent tem weur quem ta os Olmec, bet kreins rissen, ed id curve os eys torso eet dar pondoster, enden ep un darm ed kaurd lendv quer id gventer os Olmec eet gwiwotic. Ia habiet ghohdt ses un bronzen statue keipend id auwal force. Olmec hieb uno maurer cuit, bet to ne eet sub id effect ios sol. Sei Conan eet un figure ex ciengow, Olmec de eet un sombre ed gwaur masse ex id noct pre ciengow. 
* Te sehkwo, declarit Conan. Ed wakh ke mans ant me. Mien	trust in te ne leit dalger quemm... just ant me !
Olmec vols ed gwahsit prod iom Kimri, sien hand srehtend nerveus-ye menxu is finghrit sien implohcen berd. 
* Tod secret buit gwupt unte oin pwolsecule, iey is.	Hatta ti nosters clans ne sont hushyar ed i Xotalancas han' naiw	aunstohct i. Isswo Tecuhltli eregih tod secret passage, dind is	massacrit vasyens sclavs participevs ids construction. Is biey wehse	sem dien chasset ex sien wi rig, id passion as Tascela pro iom se	changevs diutos do haines. Bet ia aunstohg eys secret ed barricadit	id passage menxu is rik ex un aunbrungos raid. I Xotalancas iom kiep	ed skohn gwiv. Bet sem dien, menxu spionim iam, ho viden Tascela	penetre Tecuhltli unte tod itner, ed it ho io aunstohct id secret. 
Is press med sien fingher un golden ornament in id mur ed un panell pivotit intos, revelend un ivordrab quod lit ubtro. 
* Tod drab es' construgen in id mur, iey Olmec. Duct uni	tor, ep id tect, ed tetos, alya drabs permitte stighes ghom do alter	kyals. Smad age oku !
* Pos te, camarade ! Jawieb Conan samt un sarcastic	ton, deikend id itner med un treiccruce os sien eins. 
Olmec plex ed bistigh ia stieupens. Conan iom sohkwit fauran ed zaghyien id dwer apter se. Alnos ubdrabs, un gwrozdu om ogwnjoyels transformit id nardban do un schakht muzlim-ye belucen ab ogvioks. 
Ies bestigh ia stieupens ed Conan kohns ies hieb arrivet uper id trit etage kun entreer un circular tor quos coupel eet gjiaungsiant samt id gwrozdu om ogwnjoyels qua beluc id drab. Per fensters samt golden stanghs ed quom schibs eent ex nebrehget cristallpanells, ia prest fensters is eedyehrcneut pon is hieb gwohmto do Xuchotl, Conan glaz oik uperalt simans, thols ed alya tors, qua wierdheer deusk-ye sub ia stars. Is vis ia tects os Xuchotl. 
Olmec ne spohc per ia fensters. Is oispohd ghom oino iom multen drabs qua duxeer ibs niter etages. Pos oika stieupens, id drab changit-se do angh dikhliz quod sohrp unte un wassime distance pre stope ant un besonters bergwnt ghomwort gastieup. Ies hieb ghohdto do tod stet kun Olmec hielt stayg. 
Nitos, pnict, yed aisic-ye recognible, hat just ludt id crie uns gwen... un crie om dekhschat, rage ed scham. Ed Conan rekohgn id voc as Valeria. 
In id rage quod submers iom fauran kun is ieur tod crie, menxu is dieum qualg perile hieb ghohdt rehve liko crie ex Valerias lipps, Conano myohrs Olmec. Is gwahsit prod iom peurst ed bistighit ghom id drab. Eys instinct sbud ed volgih iom just kun Olmec plieg iom med sien peungst anghen kam un tokmak. Id cutt, birt gver-ye ed silent-ye, zielit id base os eys neuk, bet is Kimri hiebit pivoten just barwakt ed is buit hiht ep id gon ios coll. Id impact habiet brohct ia spindels alyios quem ios, bet id tik vankih Conan. Is sis falle sien eins, inutil in solgo corps-ad-corps, ed siz Olmecs regen brakh, dreibhend iom peurst con se do sien pehden. Ies comnisturd ghomdrabs, in un dewer om memsa, caps ed corpsa. Ed kun ies fiell, Conans finghers trohv id coll os Olmec ed zaghyahr ep id. 
Id coll ed ia omsa ios barbar hieb esen karakhen sekwos id impact. Olmec hieb birt id cutt med id hol nerce om sieno massive bagu, sien teug triceps ed sien weur oms. Bet to nel-ye affecit id gvertat ios Kimri. Kam un bulldog, is antgrip lyut-ye, scutten, baten ed heurtend ia stieupens menxu ies fiell, hina rolleer protiev un ivorpanell dwer ghomdrabs ed criesch per id samt tem force quem id bohng-se unte sien hol longe. Passeer per id debris. Bet Olmec eet ja mortu, iaghi stalen finghers ios Kimri hieb brohct eys coll, iom neicend kunkye ies fiell. 
Conan stieusit ub, scuttend ia dreudreska ex sieno mier oms, ed chassend id cruor ed id duil qua blins iom. 
Is wohs in id thronkielken. Eent penkdem leuds in tod kyal exter iom-pet. Ia prest anghen is vis buit Valeria. Un curieuso sword altar hieb esto dohmt ant id podium ios thron. Udstohlen ambh tod, sept kyehrsen kiers in ir golden schamdans lur wandlik spirals uns teug subglendios dum kyid tavan, sleund un capic odor. Ta spirals samghiet kay forme un dumarche uper id thron. Valeria lyohg ep id altar, alnos nogwa, sien blank ed berto krewos constratend ubfallend-ye con id lamper eboncolor petra. Ia ne eet dieht. Ia lyohg unte sien hol longe, sien brakhs tens apter sien cap. Pod id altar eet genuet un yuwen, qui dier ays runcs. Un gwenak eet genuet ye alter bors, darnd ays glesens. It uperwaldhen, ia ghohd neti stahe ub, ni hatta move. 
Oindem wirs ed gwens os Tecuhltli eent genuet silent in pwolcircule, glegend id scene med ir enflammen ed lubric okwi. 
Tascela sess nonchalant-ye deub ep sien ivorthron. Kundur kans in aysen pialas ed ia twehrnd voluts vrink ambh ays bare memsa, caressend iam kam finghers ; ia khiek remane still ; ia movit ed forkih-se in un schakhwani tyehgven, kamsei ia spreuviet plaisure med id contact os polihn ivor ep sien bare krewos. 
Id kwalay ios dwer quod hieb just brohct sub id impact iom xubhen corpsen protiev id brigh neid change do id scene. Ii genuet wirs ed gwens contenteer-se med glanzes indifferent-ye id cadaver irs peurst ed iom wir qui stieusit ub medsu id debris ios dwer, dind i spohc tsay iam albh forme qua lyohg ep id sword altar. Tascela protiokwit insolent-ye iom wir ed sess deuber do sien stron, ilaynd goilisk-ye. 
Is iengh sien hands kam tokmaks menxu is elien-se kyam. Menxu is bistiup, semjecto cliengh samt uno metallic blosk ed stal dohnk wild-ye eyso jamb. Is kwohl ed sa-fiell, quasi dribhen ab sien elan. Ia ghyanus uns kapan hieb zaghyahn ep eyso jamb ed ia stalen dents hieb duben aun slembhes ir kapto. Tik ia stehlbend muscles os eyso saur stabh ei ost brehge. Id balstohmt jihase hieb surregen ex id kirmiz swol aun warne. Is Kimri ghohd kongcio vide ia bidna qua hiebeer perfect-ye perbohrct id kapan in id demped. 
* Imbecile ! Glih Tascela. Mohns' nel-ye prekauriem	de tien eventual reiken ? Ielg iom dwers tos kyal es' protec'	med solg kapans. Man quer es edghi smauter, menxu parduco id fat	tiens meg bell prientin ! Kaursiem de tien beurt poskwo.
Id hand os Conan trohc instinctive-ye kyeyso yeusmen, kay trehve ter tik un tuich kardkasch. Eys eins lyohg ep id drab, apter iom. Eys khandjar eet in id forest, quer el ogvi hieb rohft id ex sien ghyanu. Ia stalen dents do eyso jamb eent kam geuls, bet id gvol ia inflixeer ne eet tem gver quem id kyehrsen grassab quod brohn deub in eys atmen. Is eet kapanen kam un wolf. Sei is habiet habt sien jamb ye prayghest, is habiet sect sien jamb ed rept ep id swol kay gwahe neictum Tascela. Valerias okwi rolleer kyom in uno niem appell ed ays wi achizia yis kirmiz follia wands per id kers ios Kimri. 
Se sinend falle ep sien leur genu, is tentit passe sien finghers inter ia ghyanus ios kapan kay tente med sien hol nerce arke ia. Cruoro sru sub eys onkha, bet ia ghyanus eent meg pior dupta do eyso jamb, skeipend un circule quos segments yug mutu perfect-ye, yoitkwe ne eet id lytst rewos inter eys raghen krewos ed ia stalen edonts. Id vid ios nogwios corpsios Valerias gwutit olum ep ia flammes os eys rage. 
Tascela ignorit iom. Stahnd ub langoreus-ye ex sien sedd, ia perichohx ia rangs em sien subjects, ed spohc : 
* Quer son' Xamec, Zlanath ed Tachic ?
* Ne hant riken ex ia catacombes, peurstin, antwohrd sem	wir. Kam wey, hant tobohrn ia cadavers tim qui nohc in katu in ia	crypts, bet ne hant riken. Kad hat is kabus os Tolkemec lambhen	iens ? 
* Tayc, imbecile ! Wohl ia brisant-ye. Is kabus es'	neis meis quem un mythos. 
Ia stighit ghom id takhta, finghernd un teun daga samt golden hamand. Ays okwi ieydh samt un intensitat quod ne hieb lik id-mo hayd. Ia stahsit still nieb id altar ed ays voco cliengh in id tenden silence. 
* Tien gwit me rebeuwsiet yun, blank gwen ! Ieyit	ia. Vahm lyehge ep te ed place mien lipps ep tiena, ed lent-ye...	oh, ya lent-ye ! Dyehgwsiem tien kerd med tod miech, yoitkwe	tien gwit linkwsiet tien stehvend corpos kay entre mieno ed	redlehihes in me yuwent ed yugwit !
Lent-ye, kam un serpent slehnkend ambh els victim, ia clih-se per ia dumvoluts, stets lyt proscher iam kongcio still gwenaku qua spohc ays deusk ed lamper okwi... okwi qua crohsc ed profunderiesc, erkwnd kam kyehrsen meuns in id twehrndo dum. 
Ti genuet ghenseer mutus hands ed enderwieurg ir annem, tens in id intizar ios cruoric paroxysme. Id saul aurim swon eet Conans gver kwehs qui tentit lures sien jamb ex id kapan. 
Vasya okwi eent trohpt kyid altar ed kyam blank silhouette qua lyohg ep id ; hatta un perkwndvohn habiet duyst rumpes id charmen, yed buit uno mer stump schikay quod brohg id fixitat ios scene ed volgih vasyens... Un stump schikay, yed quod ghirs id kays ep id cap. I spohc ed vis. 
Wardhend in id dwer levter quem id podium stahsit un coschmar gastalt. Eet un wir, samt chapachul albh kays ed un implohcen albho berd quod niek eyso xiongbu. Povestilumps covohr part-ye eys maigher carcasse, revelend pwolnogwa memsa samt stragn-ye guway aspect. Eys cuit ne samkwohk tod uns normal ensan. Id tengicit squamic, kamsei is wir qui hieb solg epidermis habiet gwiwt unte conditions quasi contrar tibs unte-ya gwit antslehncti normal-ye. Ed eet khich adamlik in ia okwi qua ieydh sub eyso zazzer os interplohct albh kays. Eent dwo mier lamper diska qua spohc aun palpeber, gwayder, subalbh, aun id lytsto trace os menscemotiono ni raison. Eyso stohm eet ghyanen, bet neid coherent swon sielg id... ploisko un superacut cakhin. 
* Tolkemec ! Murmurit Tascela, livid, menxu alters	ahockeer-se, niemihn ob hayriene. Toghi eet neid mythos, neis	kabus ! Set ! Has gwiwt unte dwodem yars in temos !	Dwodem yars bayna nugwrnts ! Quod horrible pitu has tu trohven.	Quod buxianxu parodia os gwit has tu agen, in id absolut kyehros tos	abadic noct ? Ghabo taiper ma Xamec, Zlanath ed Tachic ne hant	rict ex ia catacombes... ed naiwo reicsient tois. Bet ma has tu	skohpten tem diu pre plage ? Pieurskist semject in ia	ghyamens ? Sem secret arme tu wois perbohrgen ter ? Ed has	tu bad trohft id ?
Id hideus cakhin buit id saul antwehrd os Tolkemec, qui klieup do id kyal med un skand qui kammerih iom id secreto trapdwer quod lyohg ant id dwer... kjiawxieng, we tun ob is mohm vagh-ye ia mores tim os Xuchotl. Is ne eet un dement ye id weidos quosmed unis mensc sehncti do dementia. Is hieb gwiwt apo menscgenos tem diu quem is neti eet mensc. Tik un intact lump os mehmen, transformet do enkrewb haines, ed un effrenat wan os vengence yug iom ei menscgenos quetos is hieb esen excluden, ed to hieb dart iom prokwem qui is haiss. Tik tod teun sioul hieb ei stabhen se xubhes proaiwo do ia temosta dikhliz ed ia endrenrigs is hieb aunstohgen meg diuper. 
* Has paursc' semjec' kohlt ! Murmurit Tascela,	stieupend retro, lambhen ab paur. Ed has trohft id ! Mehms id	cruoric swesgvonia ! Pos ta quant temosyars mehms id !
Idghi lagar hand os Tolkemec swohng taiper un curieus jadecolor specter, ye-yos bors luc un liuuskeip scarlat globe. Tascela klieup gontro kun is ghesorit id kam un lance. Uno maurrudh piurnbam gwohl ex id liuu. Id lips Tascela, bet ia gwen qua dier Valerias glesens eet ep ids agmo. Id bam hihsit inter ays omsa. Buit un stump reus, ed id bam antskiend ex ays pizdan kay stundes id sword altar, deughend uno moder gabliutos. Ia gwen collapsit gontro, skrehmbend ed teursend kam una mumia menxu ia fiell. 
Valeria rollit ed se sis pehde ocolo id altar. Dind ia kwetwerpohd kyid witer mur. Inferno ghi hieb udbrohgen in id thronkielken ios defunct Olmec. 
Is wir qui hieb dart ia hands as Valeria buit is niebst qui nohc. Is vols kay abdrahe, bet pre is habiet andht six stieups, Tolkemec, samt un terrifiant agilitat pro solgo corpos, klieup yoitkwe is wir wohs inter iom ed id altar. Iter id rudh bam gwohl ed is Tecuhltli rollit ep id grund, menxu id bam napluk ed vihihsit id altar samt uno moder gabliutos. 
Dind buit uno massacre. Heulend kam dements, quanti sroht in id kielken, waurgpuscend mutu, kwehlpend ed fallend. Ed Tolkemec klieup ed gvohmbit medsu i, bringhend nehc. I Tecuhltlis khiek antsalge unte ia dwers, ar okwivid-ye tom metall, tem quem id metall quod dierz id petraltar, dieughit kay complete id circuit tos infernal energia quod gwohl ex id magic scepter is geronto dohrj in sien hand. Kun is dyohrc un wir au un gwen pridrahe inter iom ed id altar au un dwer, individu-onis nohc fauran. Is ne chusit sien victims. Is priwiel i. Ia lumps om eys vesters lik ep eys memsa qua sroht bachimien ed ia swehner echos eysen cakhins plehr id kielken, uperstumpend ia heuls. Corpsa fiell kam turs waraks ambh id altar ed ant ia dwers. Un desperat jenchi rusch kyom swehngend-ye un khandjar, ed collapsit pre ghehdus plage. Alters samkwohk un follascus churd, ne hatta sehgnend de resiste, aun chance de ghehde skape. 
El senstis Tecuhltli ploisko Tascela hieb fallen kun ia peurstin arrivit pri iom Kimri ed iam bent qua hieb endergwohmt bei. Tascela clih-se ed touchit id grund, premend oin om idsa motifs. Ia isern ghyanus oislu fauran id crewent jamb ios Kimri ed disprohp iter do id demped. 
* Neic iom sei ghehds ! Kwohs ia, placend un gwaru	khandjar do eys hand. Ho neid magia kay diwides iom !
Brehmend, Conan klieup inter bo gwens, aun kaure de sien raghen jamb, todribhen ab id rage os katue. Tolkemec gwohm prosch iom. Eysa stragn okwi flamboyeer, bet is kung dyehrcend-ye id inikas ios khandjar in id hand os Conan. Ed tun inkiep un buxianxu leik, dat Tolkemec iskwit tournes ambh Conan yoitkwe place iom Kimri inter se ed id altar au uno metallic dwer, menxu Conan iskwit contre eys maneuvres ed dyehgwe iom med sieno miech. Ias gwens oispohc id scene, tens, enderwaurgend ir annem. 
Eet neid blosk ploisko id tyehr-ed-kreus iom okutrehcend peds. Tolkemec hieb zaklaupen ed zagvohmben. Is hieb ghaben is wedirn is eet confronten eet meg-ye gverer quem i preadds nehcus heulend-ye ed mwaungsound-ye. In id auwalo flamme quod blig in id budmen iom okwi ios barbar skwit is un gwaukania egal sieni. Ies trohc perodhtos retro ed, kun oiter movit, alter kwohr id sam, kamsei esient yugen med invisible siouls. Bet Conan eegigwehmt proscher sien duschman. Ja biflex ia gneubhic muscles eysen bemerns, se preparend pro id klaup, kun stayg Valeria emiss un crie. Unte oin fugitive instant, un aysen dwer hieb stahn in id ardehsa ios movend corpos os Conan. Id rudh bam gwohl, aydhend id flank ios Kimri menxu is clih-se gontro. Unte id sam mov, is lohnc sien khandjar med sien hol nerce. Veut Tolkemec collapsit, druve-ye mortu ye tod ker, id hamand ios miechios dar vibrend ep sien xiongbu. 
Tascela klieup... ne kye Conan, sontern kyid scepter quod lucit kam un gwiv ject ep id swol. Bet kun ia skiend, Valeria kwohr id sam, samt un khandjar ghens ex id cadaver uns Tecuhltli in sien hand. Id miech, sehno med id hol nerce iom musclen ias pirate, becepit iam peurstin Tecuhltlis med tant augos quem id ak sielg inter ays pizda. Tascela emiss oin crie ed collapsit, mortu. Valeria ierk fauran id cadaver med sien persna. 
* Io tohrb kwehre to, pro id respect as meswo !	Kwohs Valeria, facend Conan ud quom eet separen ab id cadaver.
* Eno ghi fineiht ir faydh, brohm is. To buit un	infernoct ! Quer tar conserve ti leuds ir pitu ? Io	heungher. 
* Wans un bandage ambh tod jamb. 
Valeria rohv un kumasch ex un behang ed nodit id ambh sien lendv, dind ia wul smulker streis qua ia diehsit efficient-ye ambh id raght mems ios Kimri. 
* Ghehdo ghange iosmed, sigwrit is ay. Smad abgwahe	hetos. Est octent exter tod infernal urb. Io bactisse Xuchotl. Est	un gohd ject od tod race hat-se exterminet mon. Volo neid iren	balstohmen joyels. Kad sont hantet.
* Est kafi kiest lwon tienxia pro te ed me, iey Valeria	staund-ye ub, megil ed splendid, ant iom. 
Id veut flamme reprohp in id budmen iom okwi ios Kimri ed ye tod ker ia ne resistit kun is dier iam do sien brakhs. 
* Hams maung itner kwehrtu pre joine id caust, ieyit ia	pau pos, stragend sien lipps ud eysa.
* Ed tun ? Iey is. Est neid quod khakmos	upertrehnes. Sessiemos ep id deck uns nav pre i Stygians ghyane ir	ports pro id tajirsaison. Tun deicsiemos ei mund quo plunder maynt !