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The hissing approach spread across the night behind them
They turned their heads as they walked
Saw the amount of the causing worm keep moving poll whispit don't look back a greeting sound of fury exploded from the rock shadows
They had left it was a flaeling avalanch of noise
Keep moving poor repeating
He saw that they had reached an unmarked point
Whether two rock faces
The one ahead and the one behind appeared equally remote and still behind them that whipping friends and tearing of rocks dominated the night
They moved on and on and on
Muscles reached a stage of mechanical aching
That seemed to stretch out indefinitely
But paul saw that the backining a scope met ahead of them had climbed higher
Jessica moved in a voiid of concentration aware that the pressure of her will alone kept her walking dhinas ached in her mouth
But the sounds behind drove away
All hope of stopping for a sip from her steel suits catch pockets lumb
Lumb renewed frenzy erupted from the distant cliff drowning out the thmpper silence faster
Paul whispeard she noted knowing he did not see the gestiure
But needing the action to tell herself that it was necessary to demand
Even more from muscles that already were being texed to their limits
The unnatural movement
The rock face of safety
Ahead of them climbed into the stars
And paul saw a plane flat sands stretching out at the base
He stepped onto it stumbled in his fatigue writed himself with an involuntary outthrusting of a foot resondent boommshook the sand around them
Paul lurched sideways two steps bomb omm drum
Sand
Jessica
Histst
Paul recovered his balance a sweeping glance took in the sand around them
The rockest government perhaps two hundred metres away behind them
He heard a hissing like the wind
Like a rip tied
Where there was no water run
Jessica screamed poor run they ruan drum sound boomed beneath their feet
Then they were out of it and into p gravel for a time
The running was a relieved of muscles that ached from unfamiliar rhythmless use here was action that could be understood
Here was rhythm
But sand and gravel dragged their feet
And the hissing approach of the worm with storm sound that grew around them
Jjessa a stumbled to her knees
Or she could think of was the fatigue and the sound and the terror
Paul dragged her up
They ran on hand in hand
A thin poll jutted from the sand
Ahead of them
They passed it saw another jessic's mine failed to register on the poles
Until they were passed
There was another wind eded surfaced thrust up from a crack in rock
Another rock she felt it through her feet
The shock of unresisting surface gained new strength from the ferfooooa deep crack ck stretched its vertical shadow upward into the cliff
Ahead of them
They sprinted for it crowded into the narrow hole behind them
The sound of the worm's passage stopped
Jessica and paul turned peerred out onto the desert
Whether dunes began perhaps fifty metres away
The foot of a rock beach
A silver grey curve proached from the desert sending rivers of sand and dust casskating all around it lifted higher resolved into a giant questing mouth
It was around blblack hole with edges glistening in the moonnight
The mouth snaked ed toward the narrow crack
Where paled and jessica huddled cinma yielled in their noststrals
Moonlight flashed from crystal teeth back and forth the great mouth wolve paul still his breathing
Jessica crouched staring it took intense concentration of urbenei jeserit training to put down the prime al terrrors
Subdoing a race memory fear that threatened to fill her mind
Paul held a kind of elelation in some recent incident
He had crossed a time barrier into more unknown territory
He could sense the darkkness ahead nothing revealed to his inner eye
It was as though some step
He had taken
Had plunged him into a well
Or into the trough of a wave
Where the future was invisible
The landscape ed undergone a profound shifting instead of frightening him the sensation of time darkness forced a hyperacceleration ation of his other ses ses
He hihimself registering every available aspect of the thing that lifted from the sand
They are seeking him its mouth with some eighty meters in diameter cryystal teeth with a curved shape of chris knives ginting around the rim
The belllows breath of cinemon subttle elder heighds
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