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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Flamedown + +Author: Horace Brown Fyfe + +Illustrator: Summers + +Release Date: September 8, 2009 [EBook #29936] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FLAMEDOWN *** + + + + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + +</pre> + +<div class="tr"><p class="center">Transcriber's Note:</p> +<p class="center">This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction August 1961. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.</p> +<p> </p></div> +<div class="figcenter" style="width: 500px;"> +<img src="images/image_001.jpg" width="500" height="431" alt="Front Page" /> +</div> +<p> </p> +<h1>FLAMEDOWN</h1> +<p> </p> +<h2>By H. B. FYFE</h2> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<h4><i>It was, of course, one Hell of<br /> +an ending for a trip to Mars—</i></h4> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> +<h3>Illustrated by Summers</h3> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figleft"><img src="images/image_002.jpg" alt="C" width="50" height="50" /></div> +<p>harlie Holmes lost touch with reality amid rending and shattering +sounds that lingered dimly. Blackness engulfed him in a wave of agony.</p> + +<p>He was not sure exactly when the possibility of opening his eyes +occurred to him. Vaguely, he could sense—"remember" was too +definite—much tugging and hauling upon his supine body. It doubtless +seemed justifiable, but he flinched from recalling more clearly that +which must have been so extremely unpleasant.</p> + +<p>Gently, now, he tried rolling his head a few inches right, then left. +When it hurt only one-tenth as much as he feared, he let his eyes +open.</p> + +<p>"Hel-lo!" rasped the bulbous creature squatting beside his pallet.</p> + +<p>Charlie shut his eyes quickly, and very tightly.</p> + +<p>Something with a dampish, spongy tip, probably one of the grape-red +tentacles he had glimpsed, prodded his shoulder.</p> + +<p>"<i>Hel-lo!</i>" insisted the scratchy voice.</p> + +<p>Charlie peeped warily, was trapped at it, and opened his eyes +resignedly.</p> + +<p>"Where'n'ell am I?" he inquired.</p> + +<p>It sounded very trite, even in his confused condition. Sections of the +dark red skin before him, especially on the barrel-shaped belly, +quivered as he spoke.</p> + +<p>"Surely," grated the remarkable voice, "you remember something?"</p> + +<p>"The crash!" gasped Charlie, sitting up abruptly.</p> + +<p>He held his breath, awaiting the knifing pain it seemed natural to +expect. When he felt none, he cautiously fingered his ribs, and then a +horrid thought prompted him to wiggle his bare toes. Everything seemed +to be in place.</p> + +<p>He lay in a small room, on a thin pallet of furs. Floor and walls of +slick, ocher clay reflected the bright outside light pouring through a +wide doorway.</p> + +<p>"What's all the sand?" he demanded, squinting at the heatwaves +outside.</p> + +<p>"You do not recognize it? Look again, Earthman!"</p> + +<p><i>Earthman!</i> thought Charlie. <i>It must be real: I can still see him. +What a whack on the head I must have got!</i></p> + +<p>"You are in pain?" asked the creature solicitously.</p> + +<p>"Oh ... no. Just ... I can't remember. The crash ... and then—"</p> + +<p>"Ah, yes. You have not been conscious for some time." His reddish host +rippled upward to stand more or less erect upon three thick tentacles. +"Even with us, memory is slow after shock. And you may be uneasy in +the lighter gravity."</p> + +<p><i>Light gravity!</i> reflected Charlie. <i>This can only mean—MARS! Sure! +That must be it—I was piloting a rocket and cracked up somewhere on +Mars.</i></p> + +<p>It felt right to him. He decided that the rest of his memory would +return.</p> + +<p>"Are you able to rise?" asked the other, extending a helpful +tentacle.</p> + +<p>The Earthman managed to haul himself stiffly to his feet.</p> + +<p>"Say, my name is Holmes," he introduced himself dizzily.</p> + +<p>"I am Kho Theki. In your language, learned years since from other +spacemen, I might say 'Fiery Canalman.'"</p> + +<p>"<i>Has</i> to be Mars," muttered Charlie under his breath. "What a bump! +When can you show me what's left of the ship?"</p> + +<p>"There will be no time," answered the Martian.</p> + +<p>Bunches of small muscles twitched here and there across the front of +his round, pudgy head. Charlie was getting used to the single eye, +half the size of an orange and not much duller. With imagination, the +various lumps and organs surrounding it might be considered a face.</p> + +<p>"The priestesses will lead the crowd here," predicted Kho. "They know +I took an Earthman, and I fear they have finished with the others."</p> + +<p>"Finished with—<i>What</i>?" demanded the Earthman, shaking his head in +hopes of clearing it enough to figure out what was wrong.</p> + +<p>"It has been an extremely dry season." Kho rippled his tentacles and +moved lissomely to the doorway, assuming a grotesquely furtive posture +as he peered out. "The people are maddened by the drought. The will be +aroused to sacrifice you to the Canal Gods, like the others who +survived."</p> + +<p>"Canal gods!" croaked Charlie. "This can't be right! Aren't you +civilized here? I can't be the only Earthman they've seen!"</p> + +<p>"It is true that Earthmen are perfectly safe at most times."</p> + +<p>"But the laws! The earth consul—"</p> + +<p>Kho snapped the tip of a tentacle at him.</p> + +<p>"The canals are low. You can feel the heat and dryness for yourself. +The crowds are inflamed by temple prophecies. And then, your ship, +flaming down from the skies—"</p> + +<p>He snapped all this tentacle tips at once.</p> + +<hr style="width: 45%;" /> + +<p>From somewhere outside, a threatening murmur became audible. It was an +unholy blend of rasping shouts and shriller chanting, punctuated by +notes of a brassy gong. As Charlie listened, the volume rose +noticeably.</p> + +<p>Kho reached out with one tentacle and wrapped six inches about the +Earthman's wrist. When he plunged through the doorway, Charlie +perforce went right with him.</p> + +<p>Whipping around a corner of the hut, he had time for a quick squint at +the chanters. Kho alone had looked weirdly alien. Two hundred like +him—!</p> + +<p>Led by a dozen bulgy figures in streaming robes, masked and decorated +in brass, the natives were swarming over the sand toward the +fugitives. They had evidently been busy. Above a distant cluster of +low buildings, a column of smoke spiraled upward suggestively.</p> + +<p>Kho led the way at a flowing gallop over a sandstone ridge and down a +long slope toward what looked like the junction of two gullies.</p> + +<p>"The canal," he wheezed. "With luck, we may find a boat."</p> + +<p>A frenzied screech went up as the mob topped the ridge and regained +sight of them. Charlie, having all he could do to breathe in the thin +air, tried to shake his wrist loose. Now that they were descending the +slope, he saw where the water was. They slid down a four-foot drop in +a cloud of fine, choking dust, and were faced by several puntlike +craft stranded on the mudflat beyond. The water was fifty feet +further.</p> + +<p>"We should have gone down-stream," said Kho, "but we can wade."</p> + +<p>Their momentum carried them several steps into the mud before Charlie +realized how wrong that was. Then, as they floundered about to regain +the solid bank, it became apparent that they would never reach it in +time.</p> + +<p>"They are catching us," rasped Kho.</p> + +<p>The howling crowd was scarcely a hundred yards away. The heat waves +shimmered above the reddish desert sand until the Martians were +blurred before Charlie's burning eyes. His feet churned the clinging +mud, and he felt as if he were running in a dream.</p> + +<p>"I'm sorry you're in it, too," he panted.</p> + +<p>"It does not matter. I act as I must."</p> + +<p>The Earthman rubbed sweat from his eyes with the back of a muddy +hand.</p> + +<p>"Everything is wrong," he mumbled. "I still can't remember cracking up +the ship. Why did I always want to be a rocket pilot? Well ... I made +my bed!"</p> + +<p>The oncoming figures wavered and blurred in the heat. Kho emitted a +grating sound reminiscent of an Earthly chuckle.</p> + +<p>"As do all you mortals—who finally have to lie in them," he rasped. +"I will tell you now, since I can carry this episode little farther. +You have never piloted a spaceship."</p> + +<p>Charlie gaped at him incredulously.</p> + +<p>"You ... you ... what about the wreck?"</p> + +<p>"It was a truck that hit you, Charles Holmes. You have no more sense +than to be crossing the street with your nose in a magazine just +purchased on the corner."</p> + +<p>With some dulled, creeping, semi-detached facet of his mind, Charlie +noted that the running figures still floated above the sand without +actually drawing near.</p> + +<p>"Are you—Do you mean I'm ... d-d-d—?"</p> + +<p>"Of course you are," grated Kho amiably. "And in view of certain +actions during your life, there will be quite a period of—shall we +say—probation. When I was assigned to you, your reading habits +suggested an amusing series of variations. You cannot know how dull it +is to keep frustrating the same old dreams!"</p> + +<p>"Amusing?" repeated Charlie, beyond caring about the whimper in his +tone.</p> + +<p>The mob was dissolving into thin smoke, and the horizon was shrinking.</p> + +<p>Kbo himself was altering into something redder of skin but equipped +with a normal number of limbs, discounting the barbed tail. The +constant heat of the "desert" began, at last, to seem explicable.</p> + +<p>"For me a great amusement," grinned Kho, displaying hideous tusks. +"Next time, I'll be a Venusian. You will lose again. Then we can visit +other planets, and stars ... oh, we shall see a lot of each other!"</p> + +<p>He cheerfully polished one horn with a clawed finger.</p> + +<p>"<i>You</i> won't enjoy it!" he promised.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Flamedown, by Horace Brown Fyfe + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FLAMEDOWN *** + +***** This file should be named 29936-h.htm or 29936-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/9/3/29936/ + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Flamedown + +Author: Horace Brown Fyfe + +Illustrator: Summers + +Release Date: September 8, 2009 [EBook #29936] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FLAMEDOWN *** + + + + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + Transcriber's Note: + + This etext was produced from Analog Science Fact & Fiction August + 1961. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. + copyright on this publication was renewed. + + + + FLAMEDOWN + + + By H. B. FYFE + + + + + _It was, of course, one Hell of + an ending for a trip to Mars--_ + + + + Illustrated by Summers + + * * * * * + + + +Charlie Holmes lost touch with reality amid rending and shattering +sounds that lingered dimly. Blackness engulfed him in a wave of agony. + +He was not sure exactly when the possibility of opening his eyes +occurred to him. Vaguely, he could sense--"remember" was too +definite--much tugging and hauling upon his supine body. It doubtless +seemed justifiable, but he flinched from recalling more clearly that +which must have been so extremely unpleasant. + +Gently, now, he tried rolling his head a few inches right, then left. +When it hurt only one-tenth as much as he feared, he let his eyes +open. + +"Hel-lo!" rasped the bulbous creature squatting beside his pallet. + +Charlie shut his eyes quickly, and very tightly. + +Something with a dampish, spongy tip, probably one of the grape-red +tentacles he had glimpsed, prodded his shoulder. + +"_Hel-lo!_" insisted the scratchy voice. + +Charlie peeped warily, was trapped at it, and opened his eyes +resignedly. + +"Where'n'ell am I?" he inquired. + +It sounded very trite, even in his confused condition. Sections of the +dark red skin before him, especially on the barrel-shaped belly, +quivered as he spoke. + +"Surely," grated the remarkable voice, "you remember something?" + +"The crash!" gasped Charlie, sitting up abruptly. + +He held his breath, awaiting the knifing pain it seemed natural to +expect. When he felt none, he cautiously fingered his ribs, and then a +horrid thought prompted him to wiggle his bare toes. Everything seemed +to be in place. + +He lay in a small room, on a thin pallet of furs. Floor and walls of +slick, ocher clay reflected the bright outside light pouring through a +wide doorway. + +"What's all the sand?" he demanded, squinting at the heatwaves +outside. + +"You do not recognize it? Look again, Earthman!" + +_Earthman!_ thought Charlie. _It must be real: I can still see him. +What a whack on the head I must have got!_ + +"You are in pain?" asked the creature solicitously. + +"Oh ... no. Just ... I can't remember. The crash ... and then--" + +"Ah, yes. You have not been conscious for some time." His reddish host +rippled upward to stand more or less erect upon three thick tentacles. +"Even with us, memory is slow after shock. And you may be uneasy in +the lighter gravity." + +_Light gravity!_ reflected Charlie. _This can only mean--MARS! Sure! +That must be it--I was piloting a rocket and cracked up somewhere on +Mars._ + +It felt right to him. He decided that the rest of his memory would +return. + +"Are you able to rise?" asked the other, extending a helpful +tentacle. + +The Earthman managed to haul himself stiffly to his feet. + +"Say, my name is Holmes," he introduced himself dizzily. + +"I am Kho Theki. In your language, learned years since from other +spacemen, I might say 'Fiery Canalman.'" + +"_Has_ to be Mars," muttered Charlie under his breath. "What a bump! +When can you show me what's left of the ship?" + +"There will be no time," answered the Martian. + +Bunches of small muscles twitched here and there across the front of +his round, pudgy head. Charlie was getting used to the single eye, +half the size of an orange and not much duller. With imagination, the +various lumps and organs surrounding it might be considered a face. + +"The priestesses will lead the crowd here," predicted Kho. "They know +I took an Earthman, and I fear they have finished with the others." + +"Finished with--_What_?" demanded the Earthman, shaking his head in +hopes of clearing it enough to figure out what was wrong. + +"It has been an extremely dry season." Kho rippled his tentacles and +moved lissomely to the doorway, assuming a grotesquely furtive posture +as he peered out. "The people are maddened by the drought. The will be +aroused to sacrifice you to the Canal Gods, like the others who +survived." + +"Canal gods!" croaked Charlie. "This can't be right! Aren't you +civilized here? I can't be the only Earthman they've seen!" + +"It is true that Earthmen are perfectly safe at most times." + +"But the laws! The earth consul--" + +Kho snapped the tip of a tentacle at him. + +"The canals are low. You can feel the heat and dryness for yourself. +The crowds are inflamed by temple prophecies. And then, your ship, +flaming down from the skies--" + +He snapped all this tentacle tips at once. + + * * * * * + +From somewhere outside, a threatening murmur became audible. It was an +unholy blend of rasping shouts and shriller chanting, punctuated by +notes of a brassy gong. As Charlie listened, the volume rose +noticeably. + +Kho reached out with one tentacle and wrapped six inches about the +Earthman's wrist. When he plunged through the doorway, Charlie +perforce went right with him. + +Whipping around a corner of the hut, he had time for a quick squint at +the chanters. Kho alone had looked weirdly alien. Two hundred like +him--! + +Led by a dozen bulgy figures in streaming robes, masked and decorated +in brass, the natives were swarming over the sand toward the +fugitives. They had evidently been busy. Above a distant cluster of +low buildings, a column of smoke spiraled upward suggestively. + +Kho led the way at a flowing gallop over a sandstone ridge and down a +long slope toward what looked like the junction of two gullies. + +"The canal," he wheezed. "With luck, we may find a boat." + +A frenzied screech went up as the mob topped the ridge and regained +sight of them. Charlie, having all he could do to breathe in the thin +air, tried to shake his wrist loose. Now that they were descending the +slope, he saw where the water was. They slid down a four-foot drop in +a cloud of fine, choking dust, and were faced by several puntlike +craft stranded on the mudflat beyond. The water was fifty feet +further. + +"We should have gone down-stream," said Kho, "but we can wade." + +Their momentum carried them several steps into the mud before Charlie +realized how wrong that was. Then, as they floundered about to regain +the solid bank, it became apparent that they would never reach it in +time. + +"They are catching us," rasped Kho. + +The howling crowd was scarcely a hundred yards away. The heat waves +shimmered above the reddish desert sand until the Martians were +blurred before Charlie's burning eyes. His feet churned the clinging +mud, and he felt as if he were running in a dream. + +"I'm sorry you're in it, too," he panted. + +"It does not matter. I act as I must." + +The Earthman rubbed sweat from his eyes with the back of a muddy +hand. + +"Everything is wrong," he mumbled. "I still can't remember cracking up +the ship. Why did I always want to be a rocket pilot? Well ... I made +my bed!" + +The oncoming figures wavered and blurred in the heat. Kho emitted a +grating sound reminiscent of an Earthly chuckle. + +"As do all you mortals--who finally have to lie in them," he rasped. +"I will tell you now, since I can carry this episode little farther. +You have never piloted a spaceship." + +Charlie gaped at him incredulously. + +"You ... you ... what about the wreck?" + +"It was a truck that hit you, Charles Holmes. You have no more sense +than to be crossing the street with your nose in a magazine just +purchased on the corner." + +With some dulled, creeping, semi-detached facet of his mind, Charlie +noted that the running figures still floated above the sand without +actually drawing near. + +"Are you--Do you mean I'm ... d-d-d--?" + +"Of course you are," grated Kho amiably. "And in view of certain +actions during your life, there will be quite a period of--shall we +say--probation. When I was assigned to you, your reading habits +suggested an amusing series of variations. You cannot know how dull it +is to keep frustrating the same old dreams!" + +"Amusing?" repeated Charlie, beyond caring about the whimper in his +tone. + +The mob was dissolving into thin smoke, and the horizon was shrinking. + +Kbo himself was altering into something redder of skin but equipped +with a normal number of limbs, discounting the barbed tail. The +constant heat of the "desert" began, at last, to seem explicable. + +"For me a great amusement," grinned Kho, displaying hideous tusks. +"Next time, I'll be a Venusian. You will lose again. Then we can visit +other planets, and stars ... oh, we shall see a lot of each other!" + +He cheerfully polished one horn with a clawed finger. + +"_You_ won't enjoy it!" he promised. + + * * * * * + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Flamedown, by Horace Brown Fyfe + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FLAMEDOWN *** + +***** This file should be named 29936.txt or 29936.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/9/9/3/29936/ + +Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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