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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Grove of the Unborn, by Lyn Venable
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+Title: Grove of the Unborn
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+Author: Lyn Venable
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+Release Date: June 22, 2009 [EBook #29205]
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+    _Glamorous Lyn Venable of Dallas, Texas, makes a first appearance in
+    these pages (but by no means her first appearance in this field),
+    with this sensitive story of a young man who needn't have run. A
+    contributor to William Nolan's (OF TIME AND TEXAS, November, 1956,
+    Fantastic Universe) famous _Ray Bradbury Review_, Miss Venable
+    wants, very very much, to be a part, albeit small, of the comeback
+    of science fiction that is seen today, as she wrote us recently._
+
+
+  grove
+     of
+    the
+ unborn
+
+ _by ... LYN VENABLE_
+
+
+ Bheel still stood on the patio, transfixed with horror.
+ He heard the terrified cry "Dheb Tyn-Dall"--and then the
+ vigilant Guardians got him....
+
+
+Tyndall heard the rockets begin to roar, and it seemed as though the
+very blood in his veins pulsated with the surging of those mighty jets.
+Going? They couldn't be going. Not yet. Not without him! And he heard
+the roaring rise to a mighty crescendo, and he felt the trembling of the
+ground beneath the room in which he lay, and then the great sound grew
+less, and grew dim, and finally dissipated in a thin hum that dwindled
+finally into silence. They were gone.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Tyndall threw himself face down on his couch, the feel of the slick,
+strange fabric cold and unfriendly against his face. He lay there for a
+long time, not moving. Tyndall's thoughts during those hours were of
+very fundamental things, that beneath him, beneath the structure of the
+building in which he was confined, lay a world that was not Earth,
+circling a sun that was not Sol, and that the ship had gone and would
+never come back. He was alone, abandoned. He thought of the ship, a
+silver streak now in the implacable blackness of space, threading its
+way homeward through the stars to Sol, to Earth. The utter desolation
+which swept over him at the impact of his aloneness was more than he
+could endure, and he forced himself to think of something else.
+
+Why was he here then? John Tyndall, 3rd Engineer of the starship
+_Polaris_. It had been such a routine trip, ferrying a group of
+zoologists and biologists around the galaxy looking for unclassified
+life-supporting planets. They had found such a world circling an obscure
+sun half way across the galaxy. An ideal world for research expedition,
+teeming with life, the scientists were delighted. In a few short months
+they discovered and cataloged over a thousand varieties of flora and
+fauna peculiar to this planet, called Arrill, after the native name
+which sounded something like Ahhrhell. Yes, there were natives,
+humanoid, civilized and gracious. They had seemed to welcome the
+strangers, as a matter of fact they had seemed to expect them.
+
+The Arrillians had learned English easily, its basic sounds not being
+too alien to their own tongue. They had quite a city there on the edge
+of the jungle, although, in circling the planet before landing, the
+expedition had noted that this was the only city. On a world only a
+little smaller than Earth, one city, surrounded completely by the
+tropical jungle which covered the rest of the world. A city without
+power, without machinery of any kind, and yet a city that was
+self-sufficient.
+
+Well-tilled fields stretched to the very edge of the jungle, where high
+walls kept out the voracious growth. The fields fed the city well, and
+clothed it well. And there were mines to yield up fine metal and
+precious gems. The Earthmen had marveled, and yet, it had seemed
+strange. On all this planet, just one city with perhaps half a million
+people within its walls. But this was not a problem for the expedition.
+
+The crew of the _Polaris_ and the members of the expedition had spent
+many an enjoyable evening in the dining hall of the palace-like home of
+the Rhal, who was something more than a mayor and something less than a
+king. Actually, Arrill seemed to get along with a minimum of government.
+All in all, the Earthmen had summed up the Arrillians as being a naive,
+mild, and courteous people. They probably still thought so, all of them,
+that is, except Tyndall.
+
+Of course, now that he looked back upon it, there has been a few
+things ... that business about the Bugs, as the Earthmen had dubbed the
+oddly ugly creatures who seemed to occupy something of the position of
+a sacred cow in the Arrillian scheme of things. The Bugs came in all
+sizes, that is all sizes from a foot or so in length up to the size of
+a full human.
+
+The Bugs were not permitted to roam the streets and market places, like
+the sacred cows of the Earthly Hindus. The Bugs were kept in huge pens,
+which none but a few high-ranking priests were permitted to enter, and
+although the Earthmen were not prevented from standing outside the pens
+and watching the ugly beasts munching grass or basking in the sun, the
+Arrillians always seemed nervous when the strangers were about the pens.
+The Earthmen had shrugged and reflected that religion was a complexity
+difficult enough at home, needless to probe too deeply into the
+Arrillian.
+
+But The Time had been something else again, bringing with it, the first
+sign of real Arrillian fanaticism and the first hint of violence.
+Tyndall and four companions were strolling in a downtown section of the
+city, when all at once a hoarse cry in Arrillian shattered the quiet hum
+of street activity.
+
+"What did he say?" asked one of Tyndall's companions, who had not
+learned much Arrillian.
+
+"I--I think, 'A Time! A Time!' What could ..." he never finished the
+sentence, all about them Arrillians had prostrated themselves in the
+rather dirty street, covering their faces with their hands, lying face
+down. The Earthmen hesitated a moment, and a priest of Arrill appeared
+as though from nowhere, a wicked scimitar-like weapon in his hand and a
+face tense with anger.
+
+"Dare you," he hissed in Arrillian, "dare you not hide your eyes at A
+Time!" He pushed one of the Earthmen with surprising strength, and the
+latter stumbled to his knees. All five men hastened to ape the position
+of the prostrate Arrillians; they knew better to risk committing
+sacrilege on a strange planet. As Tyndall sank to the ground and covered
+his eyes, he heard that priest mutter another sentence, in which his own
+name was included. He thought it was "You, Tyn-Dall ... even you."
+
+A few moments later a bell sounded from somewhere, and the buzzing of
+conversation began around them, along with the shuffling, scraping sound
+of many people getting to their feet at once. A hand touched Tyndall's
+shoulder and an Arrillian voice, laughing now, purred, "Up stranger, up,
+The Time is past."
+
+The Earthmen got to their feet. Everything about them was the same as
+though nothing had happened, people strolling along the street, going
+in and out of shops, stopping to chat.
+
+"I guess that was the all-clear," commented one wryly.
+
+The others laughed nervously, but Tyndall was strangely troubled, he was
+thinking of the strange words of the priest, "You, Tyn-Dall, even you."
+Why should he have known, and not the others? He tried to forget it.
+Arrillian was a complex tongue with confusing syntax, perhaps the priest
+had said something else. But Tyndall knew one thing for certain, the
+mention of his name had been unmistakable.
+
+The mood hung on, and quite suddenly Tyndall had asked, "I wonder about
+the children. Why do you suppose it is?"
+
+One of the men laughed, "Maybe they feed them to the Bugs." At no time,
+during their stay on Arrill, had they seen a single child, or young
+person under the age of about twenty-one. The crew had speculated upon
+this at great length, coming to the conclusion that the youngsters were
+kept secluded for some reason known only to the Arrillians, probably
+some part of their religion. One of them had made so bold as to ask one
+of the scientists who politely told him that since his group was not
+composed of ethnologists or theologists, but of biologists and
+zoologists, they were interested neither in the Arrillians, their
+offspring nor their religion, but merely in the flora and fauna of the
+planet, both of which seemed to be rather deadly. The expedition had had
+several close calls in the jungle, and some of the plants seemed as
+violently carnivorous as the animals.
+
+It was just a few days after the incident that the Arrillians kidnapped
+Tyndall. It had been a simple, old-fashioned sort of job, pulled off
+with efficiency and dispatch as he wandered a few hundred feet away from
+the ship. It was late, and he had been unable to sleep, so he had
+strolled out for a smoke. The nightwatch must have been somewhere about
+on patrol, probably only a few hundred feet away, on the other side of
+the ship. It happened suddenly and silently, the hand clapped over his
+mouth, the forearm constricting his windpipe, his legs jerked out from
+under him, and a rag smelling sickly-sweet shoved under his nose,
+bringing oblivion.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+When he came to consciousness, he found himself in this room, and he
+knew that since then, many days and nights had passed. His wants were
+meticulously attended to, his bath prepared, his food brought to him
+regularly, delicious and steaming, with a generous supply of full-bodied
+Arrillian wine to wash it down. Fresh clothes were brought to him daily,
+the loose-flowing, highly ornamented robe of the Arrillian noble.
+Tyndall knew he was no ordinary prisoner, and somehow, this fact made
+him doubly uneasy.
+
+And then, tonight, the ship had blasted off without him. Tyndall could
+easily reconstruct what had happened when his crewmates had inquired
+about him, at the palace and in town. "Tyn-Dall?" Then, a sorrowful
+expression, a shrugging of the shoulders, a pointing toward the
+death-infested jungle, and a mournful shaking of the head, sign language
+which in any tongue meant, "Tyn-Dall wanders too far from your ship. He
+becomes lost. Alas, he does not know our jungle and its perils." Those
+who spoke a little English would make some expression of sympathy.
+
+Maybe the crew was a little suspicious, maybe they thought there was
+something fishy about the thing, and then they thought of the unhappy
+results of what was commonly referred to as an "interplanetary
+incident." Ever since the people of the second planet of Alpha Centauri,
+in the early days of extraterrestrial exploration, had massacred an
+entire expedition because the captain had mortally insulted a tribal
+leader by refusing a sacred fruit, such incidents had been avoided at
+all costs.
+
+And so, they dared not offend the Arrillians by questioning the veracity
+of their statements. And the jungle was deadly, so they looked a little
+longer, and asked a few more questions. After a little while, the
+scientists had completed their work and were anxious to get home, and
+so, the ship blasted off, without him.
+
+All this had passed kaleidoscopically in Tyndall's mind as he lay on the
+couch in his luxurious prison, too numb to weep or even curse. His
+reverie was broken by the clicking of the lock and he raised up to see
+the door opening. An Arrillian servant stood there, his silver hair done
+up in the complicated style which denoted male house servants. He was
+unarmed. The houseman smiled, roared in imitation of a rocket, made a
+swooping gesture with one hand to indicate the departing ship, then
+pointed at Tyndall and at the open door. The servant bowed and departed,
+leaving the door slightly ajar. Now that the ship was gone, he was free
+to leave his room.
+
+Tyndall stepped cautiously out of the room and found himself in a long
+hall, with many doors opening from it on either side, much like a hotel
+corridor. One end of the hall seemed to open out onto a garden and he
+started in that direction.
+
+The doorway opened out into a patio which overlooked a vast and
+perfectly tended garden. The verdant perfection of the scene was marred
+only by one of the Bugs, sunning itself and gnawing on the stem of a
+flower. Tyndall was impressed again with the repulsive ugliness of the
+thing. This one was the size of a small adult human, and even vaguely
+human in outline, although the brownish armored body was still more
+suggestive of a big bug than anything else known to him. There were even
+rudimentary wings furled close to the curving back, and the underside
+was a dirty, striped gray. Tyndall shuddered, wondering why the
+Arrillians, who so loved to surround themselves with beauty, should
+choose so horrendous a creature as the object of their worship, or
+protection.
+
+He heard running footsteps behind him, and turned to see the Arrillian
+houseman, breathless, with an expression of greatest concern on his
+face. The servant bowed respectfully before Tyndall, then gestured at
+the garden, shook his head vigorously from side to side and tugged at
+the Earthman's sleeve.
+
+"Forbidden territory, eh? Okay, old fellow, what now?"
+
+The servant motioned for Tyndall to follow him, and ushered him down the
+hall from whence he had just come, and into another of the rooms opening
+off from it. The very old man reclining upon the low, Roman-like couch,
+Tyndall recognized at once as his host, the Rhal of Arrill.
+
+The Rhal touched the fingertips of both hands to his forehead in the
+Arrillian gesture of greeting, and Tyndall did the same. He noticed
+several male Arrillians standing near the back of the room, although the
+servant had bowed and retired.
+
+"Well, Tyn-Dall, how do you enjoy the hospitality of Ahhreel?" He, of
+course, gave the native pronunciation to the name which was almost
+Teutonic in sound and unpronounceable for Tyndall because of the sound
+given to the double aspirate, for which he knew no equivalent.
+
+"Your English, Dheb Rhal, has improved greatly since our last meeting,"
+commented Tyndall guardedly, using the Arrillian prefix of extreme
+respect.
+
+The old man smiled. "Your friends were kind enough to lend me books and
+also the little grooved disks that make voice." He gestured toward an
+old-fashioned wind-up type phonograph which Tyndall recognized at once
+as being standard aboard interstellar vessels, and for just such a
+purpose. The Rhal continued, "For teaching English very fine. How are
+you enjoying our hospitality, I ask again?"
+
+Tyndall was stuck on Arrill and he knew it. There was no need to cook
+his own goose by being deliberately offensive. "I appreciate the
+hospitality of Arrill, I express my thanks for the consideration of my
+hosts but--if I may ask a question?"
+
+"Yes?"
+
+"What, in the wisdom of the Dheb Rhal, is the reason for
+my--er--detainment?"
+
+"To answer that, Tyn-Dall, I must tell you something of the past of
+Ahhreel, and of her destiny." At these words, the other Arrillians in
+the room drew closer, and the Rhal motioned them to a couch at his feet
+and nodded toward Tyndall, requesting that he join them. Tyndall noticed
+that the others were gazing up into the old man's face with an
+expression of raptness, even of reverence. He knew that the Rhal did not
+possess an especially exalted position politically, even though he was
+head of the city. He guessed therefore that the Rhal must be the
+religious ruler of Arrill as well.
+
+The Rhal began, intoning the words as though he were reciting a ritual,
+"There was a time, many thousands of Khreelas ago, when the kingdom of
+Ahhreel was not one small city, as you see it now, but a mighty empire,
+girdling the world in her vastness. But the people of Ahhreel had become
+evil in their ways, and her cities were black with sin. It was then that
+Xheev himself left his kingdom in paradise and appeared to the people of
+Ahhreel, and he told them that he was displeased, and that bad times
+would fall upon Ahhreel, and that her people would dwindle in number,
+and became exceedingly few, and the jungle would reclaim her emptied
+cities. One city, and only one, would survive and prosper, and the
+people of that city would be given the chance to redeem Ahhreel, and
+remove the heavy hand of Xheev's terrible punishment.
+
+"All this came to pass, and in the dark Khreelas that followed, all of
+Ahhreel vanished except this city. Now, for many, many thousands of
+Khreelas, the people of this city have striven to redeem Ahhreel by
+obeying the sacred laws of Xheev.
+
+"Xheev had promised that when the punishment was ended, he would send a
+sign, and his sign would be that a great silver shell should fall from
+the heavens, and within would be Xheev's own emissary, who must wed the
+ranking priestess of Xheev, establishing again the rapport between the
+kingdom of paradise and the world of Ahhreel."
+
+When the Rhal had finished, the other Arrillians in the room fastened
+the same look of reverence upon Tyndall which they had formerly reserved
+for the Rhal.
+
+Tyndall chose his words carefully. "But there were many aboard my
+vessel. Why did you, Dheb Rhal, select me as the emissary of Xheev?"
+
+"Xheev selected you, I recognized you, as of all your companions, you
+and you alone have the sun-colored hair, which is the sacred color of
+Xheev."
+
+Tyndall was able to question the Rhal almost coolly, the trap was
+already sprung, the ship was gone. Now, he only wanted to know the how,
+and the why. An accident of pigmentation, only that had brought him to
+this. Sun-colored hair!
+
+"But, Dheb Rhal, did my friends and I not often tell you of ourselves,
+of the place from which we came? A world, a world like your own?"
+
+The old man smiled. "Do not think me naive, Tyn-Dall. I am quite aware
+that you are but a man, a man from another world, although quite an
+incredible world it must be. I know also that you were, until this hour,
+unaware of your destiny. I knew that when my priest reported that you
+ignored the Ritual Of The Time, until literally forced to obey. That is
+why we had to use ... devious means to make certain that your companions
+would not prevent the fulfillment of the prophesy. Now, of course, you
+understand.
+
+"I do not think the priestess Lhyreesa will make you unhappy, Tyn-Dall."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+This was not Earth and these people were not Earthmen. The thought now
+did not bring the bitter pain it had at first, right after the ship
+left. Earth already was becoming hazy in Tyndall's mind, a lovely globe
+of green somewhere ... somewhere far, and home once, a long time ago.
+
+No, the Arrillians were not Earthmen, but they were human, and an
+attractive, gracious race. Life would not be bad, among the Arrillians,
+especially as the espoused of the ranking priestess of Arrill. Tyndall
+fingered the rich material of his Arrillian robe; he thought of the
+food, the wine, the servants. No, he decided, not bad at all. One
+thing, though--this priestess Lhyreesa ...
+
+"I have, then, but one request to make, Dheb Rhal, I would like to see
+the priestess Lhyreesa."
+
+The old man almost chuckled, "That is understandable, Tyn-Dall, but it
+is not yet The Time."
+
+Tyndall, reveling in the strength of his position, grew bolder. "I would
+like very much, Dheb Rhal, to see her now."
+
+The Rhal's face darkened. "Very well, Tyn-Dall, but I warn you, do not
+enter the Grove. There is death there, death that even I am powerless to
+prevent. The Guardians will not harm her, but any stranger ... will not
+live many minutes in the Grove."
+
+"I will not enter, Dheb Rhal."
+
+"Tyn-Dall, The Time is very soon, possibly this very hour. Will you not
+wait?"
+
+"I prefer not to wait, Dheb Rhal."
+
+The Rhal gestured to a young Arrillian. "Bheel, show Tyn-Dall to the
+Grove of the priestess Lhyreesa."
+
+The younger man protested, "But, Dheb Rhal, so near The Time, what
+if ..."
+
+"Do as I command," snapped the Rhal.
+
+Bheel turned silently, motioning for Tyndall to follow. The young
+Arrillian led Tyndall the length of the corridor, back to the patio he
+had stepped onto by mistake earlier in the day. Bheel stepped
+respectfully aside. Tyndall looked out into the garden: the sun was
+beginning to set, the long shadows stretched across the dim recesses of
+tropic greenery. The huge insect-like thing was still there, stretched
+out in a narrow strip of sunlight, catching the last failing waves of
+warmth from the sinking sun.
+
+Tyndall turned to the Arrillian. "Where might I find the priestess
+Lhyreesa?" he asked.
+
+"There, Dheb Tyn-Dall."
+
+"I see no one. Where do you say?"
+
+Bheel pointed. "There, Dheb Tyn-Dall, where I point, you see the
+priestess Lhyreesa taking the late afternoon sun ... unless your
+eyesight is exceedingly bad, Dheb Tyn-Dall, you cannot fail to see...."
+
+Tyndall's eyesight was exceedingly good. He followed that pointing
+finger, past the pillar that supported the roof of the patio, past the
+first row of alien green plants, past the second and third rows, to the
+clearing, to the little patch of sunlight, to the thing lying there.
+That monstrous, misshapen Bug.... The Bug.... The Priestess Lhyreesa!
+
+Tyndall felt a pounding, skull-shattering madness closing in on him.
+This was a joke, of course. No, no joke. A dream then? No, not that
+either. In only a few split seconds it happened. Tyndall had leapt the
+rail around the patio, and was streaking through the Grove, heading for
+its outer boundary. The city--if he could get out of the Grove, there
+would be places to hide in the city. Narrow streets, empty cellars, dim,
+dim alleys. They'd never find him there! Run now, run before he was
+overtaken!
+
+But he was not being pursued. Bheel still stood on the patio, transfixed
+with horror. He heard the Arrillian's terrified cry "Dheb Tyn-Dall...!"
+And then a rope shot out and grabbed him by the ankles. Not a rope
+really, a green something, and there were others around his arms, his
+chest, his hips, wrapping him in their sticky green embrace. The
+Guardians! He tried to cry out but one of the verdant fronds enveloped
+his throat so tightly he could not utter a sound. The innocent green
+things of the Grove were vigilant guardians indeed. They seemed to be
+merely holding him immobile, but Tyndall realized with sick horror that
+their pressure was increasing, so little at a time, but so steadily.
+
+And something was happening out there in the sunlight too. The creature
+had convulsively grasped the branch of a bush and was clinging weakly to
+it, great tremors wracking its body. It seemed to be struggling,
+suffering, dying ... even as he was. In his agony, Tyndall laughed.
+
+"A Time! A Time!" The voice came from the patio. Tyndall saw Bheel throw
+himself face down on the floor, covering his eyes with his hands. He
+heard the cry echoed within the palace, and then like a mighty roar
+outside in the city. And then there was silence, silence broken only by
+the sound of his own breathing as he dragged his tortured lungs across
+his shattered ribs.
+
+He saw the Bug give a great heave, and then it seemed to split open, the
+entire skin splitting in a dozen places and a hand ... A HAND reached
+from within that dying hulk and grasped the bush to which it clung. A
+white slender hand on a fragile wrist, and then the arm was free, a
+woman's arm, a beautiful arm.
+
+Tyndall began, dimly, and too late, to understand.
+
+A leg kicked free ... the slender ankle ... the amply fleshed thigh.
+
+Tyndall clung to consciousness doggedly. The Guardian was crushing the
+last dregs of life out of him now, and even the pain seemed to recede.
+His mind was very, very clear. So that was it. A word once heard in a
+long forgotten classroom, and then the scientists of the expedition.
+Metamorphosis ... he had meant to ask them what ... but he remembered
+now ... what it meant. A passing from one form into another.... Had he
+failed a biology test once because he didn't know what metamorphosis
+meant ... dimly ... dimly ... he saw ...
+
+The last thing Tyndall ever saw was the Priestess Lhyreesa as she
+stepped out of the empty hulk, kicking it away with a disdainful toe.
+Breathless from her ordeal, she sank to the grass, her breasts heaving
+with exhaustion.
+
+She sat there for a few minutes in the sunlight, then she tossed her
+head and spread her long raven hair out on her shoulders, the better to
+dry it in the waning sun.
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+    This etext was produced from _Fantastic Universe_ January 1957.
+    Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S.
+    copyright on this publication was renewed. Minor spelling and
+    typographical errors have been corrected without note.
+
+
+
+
+
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