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+Title: 'Mid Pleasures and Palaces
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+Author: James McKimmey
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+Illustrator: Philip Parsons
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+Release Date: March 19, 2010 [EBook #31703]
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+    _It was, Kirk thought, like standing in a gully, watching a boulder
+    teeter precariously above you. It might fall at any minute, crushing
+    your life out instantly beneath its weight. Your only possible
+    defenses are your brain and voice--but how do you argue with a
+    boulder which neither sees nor hears?_
+
+
+'mid pleasures and palaces
+
+By James McKimmey, Jr.
+
+Illustrated by Philip Parsons
+
+
+This planet was remote and set apart, and nothing about it had made
+William Kirk think he might find human life. Yet just beyond, through a
+thorny bush shaped like an exploding rose, Kirk had seen eyes and nose
+and a flash of yellow hair that were definitely human.
+
+Kirk poised motionless. He was three miles from the rocket and Leo, who
+was waiting inside of it. He thought for a moment of how Leo had told
+him, as they made their landing, that this is the kind of planet where
+you could go no further. This is the kind of planet that could be the
+end of twelve years, and you'd better be careful, William, old sport.
+
+Kirk noticed a faint breeze; his palms were wet, and they cooled when
+the breeze touched them. He placed his palms against his jacket. Damn
+you, Leo, he thought. Damn your rotten fortune-telling. Kirk was
+superstitious when he was in space, and the memory of Leo Mason's cool,
+quiet voice saying "Watch it now, sport. Be careful, be careful ..."
+seemed now like some certain kiss of fate.
+
+The bush trembled and Kirk's right hand flicked to his holster. His
+pistol was cold against his fingers and he let it fit loosely in his
+hand, the barrel half-raised.
+
+The bush shivered again, and then all at once the figure was rising from
+behind it, a tall wide figure with a very tan face, lined and
+toughened by the sun. The shoulders, bare like the chest, were massive,
+yet somehow stretched-looking, as though endless exposure to wind and
+rain and sun had turned the skin to brown leather.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Kirk had his pistol pointing at the figure's stomach now, and the figure
+blinked, while the breeze touched and ruffled the long bleached hair.
+
+The figure raised a large hand, palm up, and curled the fingers.
+"Hello?" he said softly. Kirk was surprised by the word and the polite
+sound of it.
+
+Kirk remained motionless, pistol pointing. "Who are you?" he said
+through his teeth.
+
+"Harry," said the figure, as though Kirk surely should know who he was.
+"I'm Harry, of course."
+
+"Yes?" said Kirk carefully. "Harry?"
+
+The figure nodded. "Harry Loren, don't you know?"
+
+"Oh, yes," Kirk said, his eyes watchful. "Harry Loren." There was
+something about the man's eyes, Kirk decided. They were deep set and
+very bright within their sockets. They didn't match the softness of the
+speech. Harry Loren smiled and showed his yellow teeth. "Who are you?"
+he asked politely.
+
+"I'm William," Kirk said. It was as though he might be speaking to a
+frightened child, he thought, who held a sharp knife in his hands.
+"William Kirk, of course."
+
+Harry Loren nodded apologetically. "Oh, yes. I can't remember everyone.
+It's been so long. How are you, William?"
+
+Kirk's eyes flickered. "I'm fine."
+
+"That's nice," Harry Loren nodded. His wild hair brushed over his
+shoulders and reflected its yellowness against the sun. The knife then,
+the one that Kirk had thought about a moment ago, appeared in the
+figure's hand. "_Bastard_," Harry Loren hissed, and he was leaping at
+Kirk, the knife making a sweep toward Kirk's stomach.
+
+Something kept Kirk from squeezing the trigger, and instead he swung his
+pistol so that it struck the brown, weathered knuckles. The knife flew
+into a thicket and Loren, screaming, was upon Kirk, reaching for Kirk's
+neck. Kirk wrenched backward and at the same time swung the barrel of
+the pistol toward the yellow flying hair. There was a cracking sound,
+and Harry Loren, brown and wild-looking, crumpled silently before Kirk's
+feet.
+
+Kirk examined the man, then he reached down and picked up the knife from
+the thicket. It was crudely hammered out from some kind of alloy, but
+sharp nevertheless, and it could have been deadly in a hand like Harry
+Loren's.
+
+Kirk looked again at the yellow-haired man on the ground. He was wearing
+some kind of ragged cloth about his waist and nothing else. Across his
+back, Kirk could see, was a curving scar, an inch wide and ten or twelve
+inches long. It was white and very noticeable against the brown of the
+man's skin.
+
+Kirk bent down, looking at the scar carefully. It could have been made
+during a crash of a rocket, but there were, he noticed, fine whiter
+ridges running along the length of the scar as though they had been
+made by fine comb-like teeth. A talon, perhaps. Some kind of strange
+claw. Kirk straightened quickly.
+
+It went through his head that Harry Loren might not be the only animal
+life on this planet. He tightened his hand on his pistol, stepping
+backward, his eyes darting.
+
+But he could only pivot slowly, trying to see, to discover, and he was
+much too slow when he finally saw it. It was only a flash of yellow and
+brown, making a hissing kind of sound. He felt the ripping along his
+right arm. The pistol was going out of his hand. And a swirling
+blackness got in front of his eyes.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+When he awoke he saw Harry Loren first, who was sitting up now, silent,
+motionless, with Kirk's pistol resting in his hands.
+
+To the side of Loren and just a little behind rested a peculiar-looking
+thing. It was alive because its head, shaped like a cone that had been
+attached to its neck, kept swaying gently back and forth. The dark blue
+eyes, spaced back from the smallest end of the cone, were rather small
+with no lids. The creature's neck was long and thin, a multitude of
+shades of yellow and brown like the head, and the rest of the body
+widened out like a funnel and this area was covered with yellow
+feathers. It had what appeared to be arms and legs, long thin extensions
+of dark brown with large bony joints. At the end of each of these, Kirk
+could see a flat claw with rows of tiny comb-like teeth.
+
+Loren reached out and ran a hand softly along the creature's long neck.
+
+Kirk tried to think, testing his muscles without moving, and he
+remembered then the ripping along his right arm. He looked at the arm
+and at the way his jacket had been torn away along with the shirt
+beneath it. He could see the comb-like marking of his skin. The cut was
+not deep but it bled a little and stung. He tried to move his arm and
+found that he could.
+
+Kirk looked back to Loren. Loren stroked his hand along the thin neck of
+the creature. Kirk decided to try:
+
+"That's a nice-looking animal, Harry."
+
+Loren's expression did not change.
+
+Kirk paused. From the looks of the man, Loren had been here a long time,
+a very long time. It had been a crash, probably. And all the years
+afterward of loneliness, all the time for the quiet but sure warping of
+the brain.
+
+He raised a hand quickly, watching Loren's eyes. Loren did not change
+expressions or move the pistol, but Kirk felt a comb-like claw touching
+his hand, freezing it to motionless with its razor tips. Kirk looked at
+the creature. The dark blue eyes were steady. Kirk lowered his hand
+slowly and the claw was drawn away. The creature's head resumed it's
+gentle swaying, and Loren's hand resumed its stroking.
+
+Kirk licked his lips.
+
+"Where have you been?" Loren said, his voice sudden and hoarse now.
+
+"Where have I been?" Kirk said, tight and motionless.
+
+"Why didn't you come before?"
+
+Kirk considered it. The dancing lights in the man's eyes, the
+high-strung sound of his voice were things to make you wary and careful.
+Kirk closed his fingers the slightest bit. "I didn't know you were
+here."
+
+Loren's lips thinned. "Liar."
+
+Kirk thought he might try a smile, to reassure Loren that he was telling
+the truth. He decided against it. "How long have you been here, Harry?"
+
+"How would I know?"
+
+Kirk thought of the endless nights and days when time ran together and
+there was no more separation of one time from another. Today would be
+tomorrow and tomorrow would be today. No changes. Endless. "Did you
+crash, Harry?"
+
+"Did you crash, Harry?" Loren mimicked, and for a moment Kirk felt a
+chill dancing through him as he watched the sarcastic leer of Loren's
+mouth.
+
+Kirk kept his tone polite, patronizing. "Was there anyone else?"
+
+Loren laughed, a laugh that bounced over the rocks and through the
+scrubs and bushes.
+
+"Was there, Harry?"
+
+"Oh, yes," Loren said, grinning and showing his yellow teeth. "Six. One,
+two, three, four, five, six. Would you like to see their graves? I've
+kept the graves pretty. I know where they are because I dug them."
+
+Loren remained in a half crouch, the fingers of one hand holding the
+pistol loosely, the other keeping up its monotonous stroking of the
+animal. His eyes seemed to become vacant for a moment, as though lost in
+the memory of the digging of six graves. Then they narrowed. "Where have
+you been?"
+
+Kirk tried to match his answer to the wants of the man. "I came as soon
+as I could."
+
+"You did?"
+
+"Yes," Kirk said. "I did."
+
+Loren's right hand stopped its stroking and his fingers tightened about
+the thin long neck of the animal. "Eddie?" he said.
+
+Kirk saw the animal's left claw whipping out. He ducked suddenly, but
+the claw ripped along his left arm. He tried to roll sideways, and then
+he lay, half sprawled, looking at the blood welling up from this new set
+of ripped ridges in his arm. He shifted his eyes to look at the animal,
+and he was quite certain that he could detect a small mouth fitting
+around the under side of the funnel-shaped head. It was only a line, but
+Kirk thought that there was a grinning look to it.
+
+"You didn't come as soon as you could," Loren said, his voice an angry
+trembling sound.
+
+"I did, Harry," Kirk said, still remaining in his half sprawl. "I really
+did."
+
+Loren replaced his hand on the neck of the animal, squeezing.
+
+"No, no," Kirk said, and he tried to keep the panic out of his voice.
+"Harry, I'm telling you the truth!"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Loren's mouth showed a faint surface of his yellow teeth. He shook his
+head, slowly, back and forth, his fingers tightening about the animal's
+neck.
+
+"Harry, listen," Kirk said, watching Loren's squeezing fingers, "it's
+over now. You don't have to wait any longer. I'll take you back now.
+I'll take you home!"
+
+Loren froze, staring. "Home?" he said.
+
+"That's right," Kirk said. "That's right, Harry."
+
+"_Home_," Loren breathed, and his eyes were suddenly like a child's,
+wide and unbelieving.
+
+"The waiting's all over," Kirk said. "You don't have to wait any
+longer."
+
+"I don't have to wait any longer," Loren repeated softly, and his hand
+dropped from the neck of the animal.
+
+Kirk watched Loren and the swaying animal. "The rocket's ready," he
+said.
+
+Loren's eyes were lost in some distant memory. Gradually Kirk could see
+the eyes turn shiny with tears. "Is Annette waiting?" he asked.
+
+Kirk thought quickly. He knew that what he was going to say shouldn't be
+said, because he had no right. But he was thinking of his own skin.
+"Why, yes, Harry," he said slowly. "I imagine Annette _is_ waiting."
+
+Loren let a quick breath come through his teeth. "Annette," he
+whispered. "And Dickie?"
+
+"Dickie?" Kirk said.
+
+"Little Dickie?" Loren said and he held his breath.
+
+"Oh, yes," Kirk lied. "Of course."
+
+"I can't ask about Eddie, because we never had the chance," Loren said,
+his eyes still lost. "I always told Annette that no kid should ever grow
+up without a brother, only we never had the chance for Eddie." Loren
+reached out absently and touched the brown and yellow neck of the
+creature. "I called this fellow Eddie, though. Do you suppose that was
+all right? He's not very pretty."
+
+Kirk nodded, looking at the waving, funnel-shaped head of the animal.
+"That was all right, Harry."
+
+"Does she still braid her hair?" Loren asked, his eyes shiny.
+
+"What?" Kirk said.
+
+"Annette. Does she still braid her hair?"
+
+"Why," Kirk said slowly, feeling his palms going moist. "Why wouldn't
+she, Harry?"
+
+A faint smile flickered across Loren's lips as he remembered.
+
+Kirk watched one of the creature's claws, out of the corners of his
+eyes. He opened and closed the fingers of one hand, testing. The claw
+jerked slightly.
+
+The blood of Kirk's new wound was drying, he knew, because it had been
+only a surface cut. He wondered how it would be if the thing used its
+claws with serious intent. Like it must have to make the cut that had
+been raked into Loren's back. Loren was bending forward now, and Kirk
+could see the tip end of that scar. Somehow Loren had managed to stay
+alive and befriend the creature. Eddie. The lidless eyes stared.
+
+Kirk knew that he had to make use of the moment. It could break apart
+any time, the wildness could return, the unreasoning....
+
+"Listen, Harry," he said, "we ought to get started, you know. There's no
+use waiting longer."
+
+"Started?" Loren said.
+
+"Of course," Kirk said, trying to keep his voice matter-of-fact.
+"You're going home."
+
+Loren looked at Kirk and his eyes turned suddenly hard and his mouth
+lost the faint smile. "I am," he stated flatly.
+
+"Yes," Kirk said. "Of course."
+
+"You're a liar."
+
+"Now, Harry," Kirk said, his eyes flickering to the waiting animal. "I
+surely wouldn't lie to you."
+
+"You haven't come for me until after all this time, and now you say you
+surely wouldn't lie to me."
+
+It was like standing in a gully, Kirk thought, watching a boulder
+teetering above you. It tipped this way and that, and you didn't know
+when or if it was going to come hurtling down. You waited. But Kirk
+couldn't wait, he knew. He had to do something.
+
+"Harry, listen. It wasn't easy to find you, don't you see?" He hoped he
+was making it sound as though all he had done for the last dozen years
+of exploring was look for Harry Loren. He wished that the damned thing
+would stop swaying its ugly head back and forth. Loren's hand was
+inching out toward the yellow and brown neck.
+
+"Look, Harry, these things aren't done in a day. We--"
+
+"A day!" Loren hissed. "A _day_! All this time and you say a _day_!"
+
+"No, I'm sorry," Kirk said quickly. He wished he could shift out of the
+cramped half-lying position he was in. "I didn't mean a day, Harry. I
+meant it wasn't easy. We didn't know where you were--" He was talking
+quickly, whining almost, and he'd never whined before.
+
+Loren's fingers were touching the waving neck.
+
+"We'd better hurry," Kirk said desperately. "Annette's waiting. And
+Dickie, of course."
+
+Loren blinked.
+
+"You wouldn't want to keep them waiting any longer, not after all this
+time, Harry."
+
+Loren stroked his fingers slowly down the long neck of the animal.
+
+"I think," Kirk said, almost hoarsely, "now that I really remember it,
+Annette _was_ still wearing her hair braided. I remember that now,
+Harry. Positively."
+
+Loren froze the motion of his hand and stared at Kirk. His lips
+trembled, and then suddenly he put his hands in front of his face. He
+bent forward, and Kirk felt his nerves jumping, watching the man start
+to cry.
+
+The animal turned its stare away from Kirk for the first time. It looked
+at Loren and then slowly raised a claw, touching Loren's shoulder
+carefully. It made a sound then, a peculiar hissing sound, soft, barely
+audible. There was no danger in it, or menace, only a pitiful sound.
+
+Loren raised his head a little and brought his hands away from his face.
+Tears had cut through dust and grime and his face was streaked.
+
+"Shall we go, Harry?" Kirk said.
+
+Loren wiped at his eyes, stupidly, without knowing what he was doing.
+Then he brought his hands down and wiped them across his chest.
+
+"All right," he said. "Let's go." He picked up Kirk's pistol from where
+he had dropped it on the ground and held it out.
+
+Kirk looked at the gun and at the animal. The claw had been drawn away
+from Loren's shoulder and again it was poised, ready. "You keep it,
+Harry," he said.
+
+"Oh, yes. Of course," Loren said. There was a moment of silence as Loren
+stuck the pistol absently into the waist of his ragged cloth covering,
+beside the knife. The three of them waited then, Kirk, Loren, and the
+animal.
+
+"Eddie?" Loren said finally. "Are you ready?"
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+Kirk felt himself smiling in the direction of the animal. He remembered
+when he was a small boy, going by a house where there had been a mongrel
+with a flat head and large teeth. He had smiled at that animal as he was
+doing now. The dog had sensed his fear in spite of the smile.
+
+Loren was standing up slowly, and the animal's head swayed in slow
+circling motions.
+
+"All right?" Loren said.
+
+Kirk glanced at the man, saw the wild, nearly vacant look of the face,
+the polite tilt of the head. Kirk's palms were wet. Goddamn it, he
+thought, and he stood up suddenly.
+
+The animal extended a claw, slowly, turning it so that it seemed to wind
+and circle as it came toward Kirk.
+
+"_Eddie_," Loren said.
+
+The claw came away. Kirk caught his breath.
+
+"Shall we go?" Loren said, his eyes shining.
+
+"Yes," Kirk said. "We'll go, Harry." He turned slowly, so that his back
+was to Loren and the animal. He thought about the comb-like claws and
+the scar on Loren's back. He thought about Loren's knife and about the
+pistol.
+
+He wanted to look back as he walked. He wanted to talk, to hear Loren's
+answer and so know just where he was. More than anything he wanted to
+break into a run and get into that rocket and get out of here.
+
+He could see the gleam of the rocket finally, but he didn't look back
+yet. He kept moving. As he got closer he could see Leo, standing near
+the base of the ship, tall, leaning carelessly against the silver
+surface, smoking. He wanted to shout to Leo, to tell him for God's sake
+to wake up and protect him.
+
+They reached the edge of the clearing and Leo, whose careless body had
+stiffened, waited motionless, one hand on his pistol. Kirk stopped.
+"There it is, Harry," he said, not turning around. "There's the ship."
+He waited, half-closing his eyes, breathing slowly.
+
+There was no sound.
+
+"That's Leo, my friend, Harry," Kirk said, putting his palms flat
+against his thighs. "Your friend, Harry."
+
+Leo, Kirk could see, was still frozen, his eyes slitted to narrow
+brightness. Kirk began to step into the clearing. "Hello, there, Leo,"
+he said, his voice a tense, grating sound. "I've brought some friends."
+
+Leo was lifting his pistol out of its holster, inchingly.
+
+"_Friends_," Kirk rasped.
+
+Leo's thin eyes flickered and the pistol slid back into the holster.
+
+Kirk turned around slowly, and he saw that Loren had stopped just inside
+the clearing. The animal remained beside him, its head making its slow
+circles. Loren was staring up at the rocket and the sun reflecting from
+the bright surface, came down and shown on Loren's face, deepening the
+lines there.
+
+"Leo," Kirk said slowly, "this is Harry Loren and his friend, Eddie.
+Harry's been here quite a while, waiting for us."
+
+"Oh, yes?" said Leo, still not moving.
+
+"That's right, Leo," Kirk said. "Quite a while. What year was it,
+Harry?" he said across the clearing. "What year did you crash?"
+
+Loren blinked and there were tears again in his eyes. He reached out
+slowly, and the animal shifted so that its head touched Loren's hand.
+"Twenty-four-nineteen."
+
+Kirk put his teeth together. "Twenty-four-nineteen," he said.
+
+Loren nodded slowly, his eyes still upon the rocket.
+
+"Eighteen years," Leo said softly.
+
+"A long time, Leo," Kirk said. He thought of a girl with her hair
+braided about her head, looking up, while Loren had shot into the depths
+of sky and space. He thought of a little boy called Dickie, standing
+there, too, watching a fast-disappearing blackness in the sky. He
+thought about eighteen years, and the fading of youth. A boy becoming a
+man. Braided hair becoming gray. Memories fading and minds adjusting.
+New love, new dedication. A world shifting, a universe shifting.
+
+Kirk looked at Eddie, the animal, real and alive, waiting patiently at
+the tips of Loren's fingers. "Eddie's been with Harry for a long time,"
+he said.
+
+"Oh?" said Leo quietly.
+
+Loren's hand stroked the brown and yellow head.
+
+"Harry," Kirk said. "We're going to leave now. Are you ready?"
+
+Loren was silent.
+
+"You go up first, will you, Leo?" Kirk said.
+
+Leo looked at him, a faint frown touching his brow, then he began moving
+up the ladder to the air lock. Kirk waited until Leo had disappeared
+into the rocket, then he repeated, "We're going to leave now, Harry. Are
+you ready?"
+
+Loren remained motionless, his hand touching the animal's head. Suddenly
+he turned then and began moving slowly away through the brush, the brown
+and yellow creature bobbing beside him with queer rocker-like jumps.
+
+"Goodby, Harry," Kirk said. Finally he turned and climbed up the ladder.
+When he had gotten into his seat, he said, "Let's go, Leo," and he moved
+his hands to the controls.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+The rocket settled into the quiet motion of its course through space.
+
+"But I don't get it," Leo said. "I really don't. All that time, and then
+all he has to do is walk a dozen yards and get into the rocket and he's
+going home. That's all he would have to do."
+
+"Why?" Kirk said.
+
+"Why?" said Leo, frowning.
+
+Kirk nodded, looking at the man. "Why?"
+
+                                                           ... THE END
+
+
+
+
+Transcriber's Note:
+
+    This etext was produced from _If: Worlds of Science Fiction_ March
+    1954. 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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