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    The Eyes of Thar
    The Eyes of Thar
    The Eyes of Thar
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    The Eyes of Thar

    By Henry Kuttner

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    Even after dark it was hot here. The dead ground, parched and arid, retained the heat, releasing it slowly as the double moons—the Eyes of Thar, in Klanvahr mythology—swung across the blazing immensity of the sky. Yet Samuel Dantan came back to this desolate land as he had come before, drawn by love and by hatred.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWilder Publications, Inc.
    Release dateSep 30, 2016
    ISBN9781515411406
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      The Eyes of Thar - Henry Kuttner

      The Eyes of Thar

      by Henry Kuttner

      © 2016 Positronic Publishing

      Cover Image © Can Stock Photo Inc. / frenta

      Positronic Publishing

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      ISBN 13: 978-1-5154-1140-6

      First Positronic Publishing Edition

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      The Eyes of Thar

      by Henry Kuttner

      He had come back, though he knew what to expect. He had always come back to Klanvahr, since he had been hunted out of that ancient Martian fortress so many years ago. Not often, and always warily, for there was a price on Dantan’s head, and those who governed the Dry Provinces would have been glad to pay it. Now there was an excellent chance that they might pay, and soon, he thought, as he walked doggedly through the baking stillness of the night, his ears attuned to any dangerous sound in the thin, dry air.

      Even after dark it was hot here. The dead ground, parched and arid, retained the heat, releasing it slowly as the double moons—the Eyes of Thar, in Klanvahr mythology—swung across the blazing immensity of the sky. Yet Samuel Dantan came back to this desolate land as he had come before, drawn by love and by hatred.

      The love was lost forever, but the hate could still be satiated. He had not yet glutted his blood-thirst. When Dantan came back to Klanvahr, men died, though if all the men of the Redhelm Tribe were slain, even that could not satisfy the dull ache in Dantan’s heart.

      Now they were hunting him.

      The girl—he had not thought of her for years; he did not want to remember. He had been young when it happened. Of Earth stock, he had during a great Martian drought become godson to an old shaman of Klanvahr, one of the priests who still hoarded scraps of the forgotten knowledge of the past, glorious days of Martian destiny, when bright towers had fingered up triumphantly toward the Eyes

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