And then, afar upwards in the prodigious height, I did see the
great, and bright and quick darting flashes of a strange green
fire, and did know that they spelled to me in the Set-Speech a
swift warning that a grey monster, that was a Great Grey Man, had
made scent of me in the dark, and was even in that moment of time,
crawling towards me through the low moss-bushes that lay off beyond
the fire-hole to my back. And the message was sharp; and bade me to
leap into the bushes unto my left; and to hide there; so that I
might chance to take the thing to an advantage.
And, as may be thought, they had scarce flashed the tale unto
me; but I was gone in among the shadows of a clump of the moss-bush
that did grow anigh; and I sweat with a strange terror, and a cold
and excited shaking o
