Sometimes he slept in the lair-tower apartment with Hrutnefdhu and Liudhleeo, but he didn't like to. If it was him and Hrutnefdhu alone there, he was conscious of why Liudhleeo was absent. But when he woke up, and looked across the room to see them wrapped around each other, blissfully empty of t...
It sloshed along, half submerged, until the sullen glow of the city was left behind. Then it unfolded its long legs and skimmed along the surface of the water for part of an hour. Finally it turned left and walked up on the shore. The complicated eight-footed motion of the spider on land was rema...
You look a little chilly!” The watch-thain was someone Morlock had known slightly when he first came to the Lonetower. Morlock did not remember his name, nor he Morlock’s apparently. “How many people are within this tower?" Morlock demanded. “Don’t you know the Guard has b...
and “You are in danger” and “They think you could be king.” He did not answer the first in words at all, nor did she need him to. To the second he said, “There is no safe place anywhere. It may be we only choose where and when to meet the end.” To the third he said, “What?...
That's partly due to the kind of men I'd been buried in for more than a dozen years: half-witted townies who thought a youngish widow was anybody's meat; needle-toothed Bargainers who thought of anybody as meat for their God in the Ground. Morlock wasn't much to look at, maybe, but he wasn't like...