ss and lay like caps on the red shards that
dotted the valley.

"I shall die swiftly and easily now, instead of slowly, by
starvation," Lhar said.

A moment later a thought crossed my mind, faint and intangible as a
snowflake and I knew Lhar was saying goodbye.

I left the valley. Once I looked back, but there was only a veil of
snow behind me.

And out of the greatest adventure the cosmic gods ever conceived--only
this: For a little while the eternal veil of time was ripped away and
the door to the unknown was held ajar.

But now the door is closed once more. Below Huascan a robot guards a
tomb, that is all.

The snow fell faster. Shivering, I ploughed through the deepening
drifts. My compass needle pointed north. The spell that had enthralled
the valley was gone.

Half an hour later I found the trail, and the road to safety lay open
before me. Fra Rafael would be waiting to hear my story.

But I did not think that he would believe it....

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