Chapter 5
INTO THE NIGHT LANDNow, after that destruction which had come upon the
Ten-thousand, and the fresh assurance that was upon us of the
terror of the Night Land, it may be known that there could be no
more thought to succour. Though, in truth, those Youths that went
now upon the Road Where The Silent Ones Walk were far beyond our
aid.
Yet might it be thought that we should have signalled to them,
calling by the Home-Call, which was that great Voice which went
forth from the Machine above the sealed base of the Mighty Pyramid.
But this we might not do; for then we gave signal to the Monsters
of that Land, that some were even now abroad from the Pyramid; yet
we could no more than hope that the Evil Forces had no wotting of
them; for, in verity, none might ever know the kn
