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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - -Title: My Lady Selene - -Author: Magnus Ludens - -Release Date: January 11, 2016 [EBook #50892] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MY LADY SELENE *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="385" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1>My Lady Selene</h1> - -<p>By MAGNUS LUDENS</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Galaxy Magazine April 1963.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph3"><i>Everyone knows the Moon is dead.<br /> -Everyone is quite correct—now!</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>On impact he'd had time to see Hatter's head jerk loose from the -carefully weakened strap. As Hatter slumped unconscious he touched the -hidden switch.</p> - -<p>A shock, then darkness.</p> - -<p>What first came to him out of the humming blackout mist was his own -name: Marcusson. Al Marcusson, just turned sixteen that Saturday in -June, that green-leafed day his father had called him out to the back -yard. They had sat on discount-house furniture under the heavy maple, -Al who wore jeans and sneakers and a resigned expression, his father -who wore glasses, a sport shirt, slacks, eyelet shoes and a curious -reckless smile, a smile that didn't belong in the picture.</p> - -<p>"Now you're sixteen, Al, there's something I have to tell you," his -father had begun. "My father told me when I turned sixteen, and his -father told him. First, the name of our family isn't Marcusson. It's -Marcopoulos. Your name's Alexander Marcopoulos."</p> - -<p>"What? Dad, you must be kidding! Look, all the records...."</p> - -<p>"The records don't go back far enough. Our name was changed four -generations back, but the legal records disappeared in the usual -convenient courthouse fire. As far as anyone knows, our family's name's -always been Marcusson. My grandfather went to Minnesota and settled -among the Swedes there. Unlike most foreigners he'd taken pains to -learn good English beforehand. And Swedish. He was good at languages." -For a moment the out-of-place smile came back. "All our family is. -Languages, math, getting along with people, seldom getting lost or -confused. You better pay attention, Al. This is the only time I'm going -to speak of our family, like my father. We never bothered much, by the -way, about how our name was written. You can believe me or think I sat -in the sun too long, but I'll tell you how our most famous relatives -spelled it: Marco Polo."</p> - -<p>"Oh, now...."</p> - -<p>"Never mind what you think now. Besides, I won't answer any questions, -anyway. My father didn't and he was right. I found out some things by -myself later; you'll probably find out more. For example, the best job -for us is still exploring. That's why I became an oil geologist, and it -paid off. Another thing: learning the legends of the place you're in, -if you take up exploring, can mean the difference between success and a -broken neck. That's all, boy. Guess I'll get your mother some peonies -for the supper table."</p> - -<p>Al Marcusson had gone up quietly to his room. Later, his special gift -for languages and math got him through college and engineering school; -his sense of direction and lack of inner-ear trouble helped to get him -chosen for Astronaut training while he was in the Air Force.</p> - -<p>While in training at the Cape he had met and married a luscious -brunette librarian in one of the sponge-fishing towns, a brunette with -a rather complicated last name that became forgotten as she turned -into Mrs. Marcusson, and unbeatable recipes for the most bewitching -cocktails since Circe held the shaker for Ulysses.</p> - -<p>Marcusson's hobbies included scuba diving, electronic tinkering and -reading. His psychiatrists noted a tendency to reserve, even secrecy, -which was not entirely bad in a man who worked with classified material -and had to face long periods of time alone. Besides, his ability to get -along with people largely compensated.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>With slowly returning consciousness the last months of training swam -in Al Marcusson's mind. The orbital flight—the only part of it he'd -really enjoyed was the quarter-hour alone with SARAH, the electronic -beacon, cut off from Control and even from the rescue team just over -the horizon, alone with the music of wind and sea.</p> - -<p>For the moon shot he'd been responsible for communications, recording -and sensing systems inside the capsule, as Hatter had for the -life-support systems and their two back-up men for propulsion and -ground systems coordination respectively. He relived the maddening, -risky business of the master switch to be secretly connected with the -capsule's several brains and camouflaged. The strap to be weakened. -Then the blind terror of launch when his pulse had topped 120; blurred -vision, clenched teeth, the suit digging into him, the brief relief of -weightlessness erased by the cramped, terrifying ride filled with new -sensations and endless petty tasks. The camera eye pitilessly trained -on his helmet. The way things had of staying there when you'd put them -away. On Earth—already it was "On Earth," as if Earth was a port he'd -sailed from—you put things out of your mind, but here they bobbed -before you still, like the good luck charm in its little leather bag, -for instance, the charm his wife had tied to one of his fastener tabs -and that kept dancing in the air like a puppet, jerking every time he -breathed.</p> - -<p>Every time he breathed in the familiar sweat-plastic-chemicals smell, -familiar because he'd been smelling it in training, in the transfer -truck, in the capsule mock-up for months. All that should be new and -adventurous had become stale and automatic through relentless training. -His eyes rested on the color-coded meters and switches that were -associated with nausea in the centrifuge tumbler-trainer. The couch -made him think of long hours in the chlorinated pool—he always used to -come out with his stomach rumbling and wrinkled white fingers, despite -the tablets and the silicone creams. His skin itched beneath the -adhesive pads that held the prying electrodes to his body, itched like -the salt and sand itch he felt after swimming between training bouts. -It was still Florida air he breathed, but filters had taken out its -oil-fouled hot smell, its whiffs of canteen cooking, fish, seaweed and -raw concrete in the sun. Hatter's and his own sing-song bit talk, so -deliciously new to television audiences, rang trite in his own ears: a -makeshift vocabulary, primer sentences chosen for maximum transmission -efficiency to Control.</p> - -<p>The Control center he remembered from having watched orbital flights -himself. Machines that patiently followed pulse rate, breathing, -temperature. Squiggly lines, awkward computer handwriting, screens -where dots jumped, screens that showed instrument panels, screens -where his own helmet showed, and inside it the squirming blob that was -his own face, rendered as a kind of rubberized black-and-white tragic -mask. He felt the metal ears turning, questing for signals, the little -black boxes, miniaturized colossi tracking, listening, spewing tape. On -the capsule itself—all folded in like Japanese water flowers—sensors, -cameras, listeners, analyzers should have burgeoned on impact, shot up, -reached out, grasped, retracted, analyzed, counted, transmitted.</p> - -<p>But he'd cut the switch.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Al Marcusson blinked awake.</p> - -<p>He set about freeing himself, a task comparable to getting a butterfly -alive out of a spider web. Every creak of his suit and of the moulded -couch sounded loud and flat in the newly silent capsule. His breathing -soughed about him. But no signal went out from the electrodes taped to -his chest to say that his heart beat had again topped a hundred, that -he sweated, that his stomach contracted—even though he was under no -gravity strain, the emergency cooling worked, and his latest no-crumbs, -low-residue meal had been welcomed by the same stomach an hour earlier.</p> - -<p>He sat up. The port gave off a pale creamy glow. He leaned forward and -could see nothing except for a cream- or eggshell-colored mist, even -and opaque.</p> - -<p>He undid his glove-rings and took off his gloves. By the gleam of his -wrist-light he checked whether Hatter was breathing correctly from his -suit, visor down, and not the capsule's air, then put his gloves on -again and bled the air slowly out. They were not supposed to leave the -capsule, of course. Still the possibility of having to check or repair -something had had to be considered and it was theoretically possible. -He began the nerve-rasping egress procedure, through the narrow -igloo-lock that seemed to extend painful claws and knobs to catch at -every loop and fold of his suit. At last he gave a frantic wiggle and -rolled free.</p> - -<p>Because of the dead switch, turning antennae circled in vain, pens -stopped reeling out ink, screens stayed blank. The men in the control -room activated emergency signals but got no triggered responses. -Meanwhile, television reporters sent frantic requests for background -material fillers, their "and now back to's" falling thick and fast.</p> - -<p>Al Marcusson bounced on a kind of lumpy featherbed two or three times -before coming to rest in the same eggshell soup. Dust. Moon dust that -had no particular reason for dropping back now cocooned the ship. He -stood up with great care and staggered straight out, putting his feet -down slowly to minimize dust puffs. The mist thinned and he rubbed the -gloves against his visor and goggled.</p> - -<p>Cliffs, craters, spines, crests and jags stood there as in the -photographs except for a curious staginess he realized came from the -harsh footlights effect of the twilight zone they'd landed in and from -the shorter horizon with its backdrop of old black velvet dusty with -stars. But the colors!</p> - -<p>Ruby cliffs, surfaces meteor-pitted in places to a rosy bloom, rose to -pinnacles of dull jade that fell again in raw emerald slopes; saffron -splashes of small craters punctuated the violet sponge of scattered -lava, topaz stalagmites reared against sapphire crests, amethyst spines -pierced agate ridges ... and on every ledge, in every hollow, pale -moondust lay like a blessing.</p> - -<p>When you were a kid, did you ever wake up at night in a Pullman berth -and hear the snoring and looked at the moonwashed countryside knowing -you only were awake and hugging the knowledge to yourself? Did you ever -set off alone at dawn to fish or hunt and watch the slow awakening of -trees? Did you ever climb the wall into an abandoned estate and explore -the park and suddenly come upon a statue half-hidden in honeysuckle, a -statue with a secret smile?</p> - -<p>Al Marcusson sat by himself on the twilight zone of the Moon and -watched the sun shining through cloudy glass arches and throwing on -moondust the same colored shadows that it throws through the great -stained-glass windows on the flagstones of Chartres cathedral. He -looked up at Earth, now in "New Earth" position, a majestic ring of -blue fire flushed with violet, red and gold at the crescent where -clouds flashed white iridescence. He jerked free the little bag that -held his good luck charm and waited.</p> - -<p>They came.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>He could see them silhouetted against Earth, the long undulating V -of them. Now he could discern their wings beating in the vacuum that -couldn't support them and heard the wild lonely honking through the -vacuum that couldn't transmit sound. White wings surged steadily -nearer. Soon there was a tempest of white, a tempest that stirred no -dust, and the swans settled about him.</p> - -<p>Al Marcusson stood up.</p> - -<p>"My Lady Selene," he began, speaking carefully although he knew that -the sound could not be heard outside his helmet. "My Lady Luna, my Lady -of the Swans, I greet you. I know of you through legends: I know you -are Aphrodite the Swan-Rider, goddess of love that drives to suicide. -I know you are the White Goddess, the Three-Women-in-One, who changes -your slaves into swans. I know of your twin daughters, Helen the fair, -bane of Troy, and dark Clytemnestra, Mycenae's destroyer. I know of -your flight as the Wyrd of death who took great Beowulf of the Geats, -of your quests as Diana of the cruel moonlit hunts; I remember your -swan-wings shadowing the hosts of Prince Igor on the steppes, I have -seen the rings of your sacred Hansa swans decorating the moon-shaped -steps of temples in Ceylon, your flights of swans and geese on painted -tombs beyond the Nile. The witches of my own Thessaly called upon you -to work their spells. On the feast of Beltane, on the first of May, -with hawthorn branches blooming white as your swans, the Celts did you -honor. The folk on the Rhine brought you figurines of white clay and -long remembered your wild Walpurgisnacht. But as other beliefs drove -out the old, you went from the minds of men to those of children. -Only in Andersen's tales do you still change your slaves into swans, -only children understand the spells held in the foolish rhymes of -Mother Goose. Children know of the lady who flies on goose's back, her -cape dark behind her, and each generation in turn still listens to -your spells, my Lady of the Swans. And sometimes poets, and sometimes -hunters, and sometimes lovers look up at the moon and are afraid and -acknowledge your power."</p> - -<p>Al Marcusson stopped. The birds ringed him in. He held up his good luck -charm, a small, carved rock-crystal swan, such as are found in the very -ancient tombs of the bronze-age sea kings of the Aegean.</p> - -<p>"My Lady Selene," he cried, "I bring an offering! I came alone, before -the others, to tell you the new beliefs now come to your dwelling. I -came to warn you, my Lady of the Swans, to beg you not to be wrathful -against us, unwilling intruders, to ask you to take up your dwelling in -another place, but not to deprive us of poetry, of witching spells and -dreams, and all that the Moon has meant to us." He threw the crystal -swan before him.</p> - -<p>The plumes about him foamed and a snowy form emerged, a moonstone with -black opal eyes who smiled and began to sing. Marcusson's knees gave -and his eyes closed. Then she spread great swan wings and soared, -circling far lest her shadow fall on the crumpled spacesuited figure. -She rose. And her swans—her thousand myriad swans—rose after her out -of cracks, caves and craters, from beneath overhangs, from ledges, -hollows and rock-falls, their plumes at first stained with the colors -of the stone. They winged away, V after sinuous V, across Earth and -into space. When the last swan had left the Moon became just another -piece of colored rock.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Al Marcusson opened his eyes and made his way dully back into the -dust cloud now shot with flashes of red-orange as Earth's laser beams -searched for the capsule's nerve centers. He bumped against a strut and -forced his way in.</p> - -<p>A hum filled the capsule. Ungainly jointed limbs, paddles, calyxes, -sprouted from its outside walls. On Earth pens jiggled, tapes were -punched, rows of figures in five columns appeared on blank pages, -pulses jumped and two groggy, worn-out faces appeared on the control -room screens. Hatter's eyes flickered over the boards and he opened his -mouth. Some time later his disembodied voice came out of the monitor, -reading dials, reporting on systems. Then the screens showed Al -Marcusson's eyes opening in turn. Control could see him leaning forward -towards the port, his face drawn in haggard lines and shadows, then -letting his head fall back. "Hey," he said, "didn't Doc tell you guys -dust gives me hay fever?"</p> - -<p>On Earth the men about the screens slapped each other's backs and -grinned and wiped their eyes. Good old bellyaching Marcusson! Good old -Al! The Moon was just another piece of rock, after all.</p> - -<p>But a star went nova in Cygnus, and lovers wished on it that night.</p> - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of My Lady Selene, by Magnus Ludens - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MY LADY SELENE *** - -***** This file should be named 50892-h.htm or 50892-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/0/8/9/50892/ - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan 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 print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law 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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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - -Title: My Lady Selene - -Author: Magnus Ludens - -Release Date: January 11, 2016 [EBook #50892] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MY LADY SELENE *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - My Lady Selene - - By MAGNUS LUDENS - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Galaxy Magazine April 1963. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - - - Everyone knows the Moon is dead. - Everyone is quite correct--now! - - -On impact he'd had time to see Hatter's head jerk loose from the -carefully weakened strap. As Hatter slumped unconscious he touched the -hidden switch. - -A shock, then darkness. - -What first came to him out of the humming blackout mist was his own -name: Marcusson. Al Marcusson, just turned sixteen that Saturday in -June, that green-leafed day his father had called him out to the back -yard. They had sat on discount-house furniture under the heavy maple, -Al who wore jeans and sneakers and a resigned expression, his father -who wore glasses, a sport shirt, slacks, eyelet shoes and a curious -reckless smile, a smile that didn't belong in the picture. - -"Now you're sixteen, Al, there's something I have to tell you," his -father had begun. "My father told me when I turned sixteen, and his -father told him. First, the name of our family isn't Marcusson. It's -Marcopoulos. Your name's Alexander Marcopoulos." - -"What? Dad, you must be kidding! Look, all the records...." - -"The records don't go back far enough. Our name was changed four -generations back, but the legal records disappeared in the usual -convenient courthouse fire. As far as anyone knows, our family's name's -always been Marcusson. My grandfather went to Minnesota and settled -among the Swedes there. Unlike most foreigners he'd taken pains to -learn good English beforehand. And Swedish. He was good at languages." -For a moment the out-of-place smile came back. "All our family is. -Languages, math, getting along with people, seldom getting lost or -confused. You better pay attention, Al. This is the only time I'm going -to speak of our family, like my father. We never bothered much, by the -way, about how our name was written. You can believe me or think I sat -in the sun too long, but I'll tell you how our most famous relatives -spelled it: Marco Polo." - -"Oh, now...." - -"Never mind what you think now. Besides, I won't answer any questions, -anyway. My father didn't and he was right. I found out some things by -myself later; you'll probably find out more. For example, the best job -for us is still exploring. That's why I became an oil geologist, and it -paid off. Another thing: learning the legends of the place you're in, -if you take up exploring, can mean the difference between success and a -broken neck. That's all, boy. Guess I'll get your mother some peonies -for the supper table." - -Al Marcusson had gone up quietly to his room. Later, his special gift -for languages and math got him through college and engineering school; -his sense of direction and lack of inner-ear trouble helped to get him -chosen for Astronaut training while he was in the Air Force. - -While in training at the Cape he had met and married a luscious -brunette librarian in one of the sponge-fishing towns, a brunette with -a rather complicated last name that became forgotten as she turned -into Mrs. Marcusson, and unbeatable recipes for the most bewitching -cocktails since Circe held the shaker for Ulysses. - -Marcusson's hobbies included scuba diving, electronic tinkering and -reading. His psychiatrists noted a tendency to reserve, even secrecy, -which was not entirely bad in a man who worked with classified material -and had to face long periods of time alone. Besides, his ability to get -along with people largely compensated. - - * * * * * - -With slowly returning consciousness the last months of training swam -in Al Marcusson's mind. The orbital flight--the only part of it he'd -really enjoyed was the quarter-hour alone with SARAH, the electronic -beacon, cut off from Control and even from the rescue team just over -the horizon, alone with the music of wind and sea. - -For the moon shot he'd been responsible for communications, recording -and sensing systems inside the capsule, as Hatter had for the -life-support systems and their two back-up men for propulsion and -ground systems coordination respectively. He relived the maddening, -risky business of the master switch to be secretly connected with the -capsule's several brains and camouflaged. The strap to be weakened. -Then the blind terror of launch when his pulse had topped 120; blurred -vision, clenched teeth, the suit digging into him, the brief relief of -weightlessness erased by the cramped, terrifying ride filled with new -sensations and endless petty tasks. The camera eye pitilessly trained -on his helmet. The way things had of staying there when you'd put them -away. On Earth--already it was "On Earth," as if Earth was a port he'd -sailed from--you put things out of your mind, but here they bobbed -before you still, like the good luck charm in its little leather bag, -for instance, the charm his wife had tied to one of his fastener tabs -and that kept dancing in the air like a puppet, jerking every time he -breathed. - -Every time he breathed in the familiar sweat-plastic-chemicals smell, -familiar because he'd been smelling it in training, in the transfer -truck, in the capsule mock-up for months. All that should be new and -adventurous had become stale and automatic through relentless training. -His eyes rested on the color-coded meters and switches that were -associated with nausea in the centrifuge tumbler-trainer. The couch -made him think of long hours in the chlorinated pool--he always used to -come out with his stomach rumbling and wrinkled white fingers, despite -the tablets and the silicone creams. His skin itched beneath the -adhesive pads that held the prying electrodes to his body, itched like -the salt and sand itch he felt after swimming between training bouts. -It was still Florida air he breathed, but filters had taken out its -oil-fouled hot smell, its whiffs of canteen cooking, fish, seaweed and -raw concrete in the sun. Hatter's and his own sing-song bit talk, so -deliciously new to television audiences, rang trite in his own ears: a -makeshift vocabulary, primer sentences chosen for maximum transmission -efficiency to Control. - -The Control center he remembered from having watched orbital flights -himself. Machines that patiently followed pulse rate, breathing, -temperature. Squiggly lines, awkward computer handwriting, screens -where dots jumped, screens that showed instrument panels, screens -where his own helmet showed, and inside it the squirming blob that was -his own face, rendered as a kind of rubberized black-and-white tragic -mask. He felt the metal ears turning, questing for signals, the little -black boxes, miniaturized colossi tracking, listening, spewing tape. On -the capsule itself--all folded in like Japanese water flowers--sensors, -cameras, listeners, analyzers should have burgeoned on impact, shot up, -reached out, grasped, retracted, analyzed, counted, transmitted. - -But he'd cut the switch. - - * * * * * - -Al Marcusson blinked awake. - -He set about freeing himself, a task comparable to getting a butterfly -alive out of a spider web. Every creak of his suit and of the moulded -couch sounded loud and flat in the newly silent capsule. His breathing -soughed about him. But no signal went out from the electrodes taped to -his chest to say that his heart beat had again topped a hundred, that -he sweated, that his stomach contracted--even though he was under no -gravity strain, the emergency cooling worked, and his latest no-crumbs, -low-residue meal had been welcomed by the same stomach an hour earlier. - -He sat up. The port gave off a pale creamy glow. He leaned forward and -could see nothing except for a cream- or eggshell-colored mist, even -and opaque. - -He undid his glove-rings and took off his gloves. By the gleam of his -wrist-light he checked whether Hatter was breathing correctly from his -suit, visor down, and not the capsule's air, then put his gloves on -again and bled the air slowly out. They were not supposed to leave the -capsule, of course. Still the possibility of having to check or repair -something had had to be considered and it was theoretically possible. -He began the nerve-rasping egress procedure, through the narrow -igloo-lock that seemed to extend painful claws and knobs to catch at -every loop and fold of his suit. At last he gave a frantic wiggle and -rolled free. - -Because of the dead switch, turning antennae circled in vain, pens -stopped reeling out ink, screens stayed blank. The men in the control -room activated emergency signals but got no triggered responses. -Meanwhile, television reporters sent frantic requests for background -material fillers, their "and now back to's" falling thick and fast. - -Al Marcusson bounced on a kind of lumpy featherbed two or three times -before coming to rest in the same eggshell soup. Dust. Moon dust that -had no particular reason for dropping back now cocooned the ship. He -stood up with great care and staggered straight out, putting his feet -down slowly to minimize dust puffs. The mist thinned and he rubbed the -gloves against his visor and goggled. - -Cliffs, craters, spines, crests and jags stood there as in the -photographs except for a curious staginess he realized came from the -harsh footlights effect of the twilight zone they'd landed in and from -the shorter horizon with its backdrop of old black velvet dusty with -stars. But the colors! - -Ruby cliffs, surfaces meteor-pitted in places to a rosy bloom, rose to -pinnacles of dull jade that fell again in raw emerald slopes; saffron -splashes of small craters punctuated the violet sponge of scattered -lava, topaz stalagmites reared against sapphire crests, amethyst spines -pierced agate ridges ... and on every ledge, in every hollow, pale -moondust lay like a blessing. - -When you were a kid, did you ever wake up at night in a Pullman berth -and hear the snoring and looked at the moonwashed countryside knowing -you only were awake and hugging the knowledge to yourself? Did you ever -set off alone at dawn to fish or hunt and watch the slow awakening of -trees? Did you ever climb the wall into an abandoned estate and explore -the park and suddenly come upon a statue half-hidden in honeysuckle, a -statue with a secret smile? - -Al Marcusson sat by himself on the twilight zone of the Moon and -watched the sun shining through cloudy glass arches and throwing on -moondust the same colored shadows that it throws through the great -stained-glass windows on the flagstones of Chartres cathedral. He -looked up at Earth, now in "New Earth" position, a majestic ring of -blue fire flushed with violet, red and gold at the crescent where -clouds flashed white iridescence. He jerked free the little bag that -held his good luck charm and waited. - -They came. - - * * * * * - -He could see them silhouetted against Earth, the long undulating V -of them. Now he could discern their wings beating in the vacuum that -couldn't support them and heard the wild lonely honking through the -vacuum that couldn't transmit sound. White wings surged steadily -nearer. Soon there was a tempest of white, a tempest that stirred no -dust, and the swans settled about him. - -Al Marcusson stood up. - -"My Lady Selene," he began, speaking carefully although he knew that -the sound could not be heard outside his helmet. "My Lady Luna, my Lady -of the Swans, I greet you. I know of you through legends: I know you -are Aphrodite the Swan-Rider, goddess of love that drives to suicide. -I know you are the White Goddess, the Three-Women-in-One, who changes -your slaves into swans. I know of your twin daughters, Helen the fair, -bane of Troy, and dark Clytemnestra, Mycenae's destroyer. I know of -your flight as the Wyrd of death who took great Beowulf of the Geats, -of your quests as Diana of the cruel moonlit hunts; I remember your -swan-wings shadowing the hosts of Prince Igor on the steppes, I have -seen the rings of your sacred Hansa swans decorating the moon-shaped -steps of temples in Ceylon, your flights of swans and geese on painted -tombs beyond the Nile. The witches of my own Thessaly called upon you -to work their spells. On the feast of Beltane, on the first of May, -with hawthorn branches blooming white as your swans, the Celts did you -honor. The folk on the Rhine brought you figurines of white clay and -long remembered your wild Walpurgisnacht. But as other beliefs drove -out the old, you went from the minds of men to those of children. -Only in Andersen's tales do you still change your slaves into swans, -only children understand the spells held in the foolish rhymes of -Mother Goose. Children know of the lady who flies on goose's back, her -cape dark behind her, and each generation in turn still listens to -your spells, my Lady of the Swans. And sometimes poets, and sometimes -hunters, and sometimes lovers look up at the moon and are afraid and -acknowledge your power." - -Al Marcusson stopped. The birds ringed him in. He held up his good luck -charm, a small, carved rock-crystal swan, such as are found in the very -ancient tombs of the bronze-age sea kings of the Aegean. - -"My Lady Selene," he cried, "I bring an offering! I came alone, before -the others, to tell you the new beliefs now come to your dwelling. I -came to warn you, my Lady of the Swans, to beg you not to be wrathful -against us, unwilling intruders, to ask you to take up your dwelling in -another place, but not to deprive us of poetry, of witching spells and -dreams, and all that the Moon has meant to us." He threw the crystal -swan before him. - -The plumes about him foamed and a snowy form emerged, a moonstone with -black opal eyes who smiled and began to sing. Marcusson's knees gave -and his eyes closed. Then she spread great swan wings and soared, -circling far lest her shadow fall on the crumpled spacesuited figure. -She rose. And her swans--her thousand myriad swans--rose after her out -of cracks, caves and craters, from beneath overhangs, from ledges, -hollows and rock-falls, their plumes at first stained with the colors -of the stone. They winged away, V after sinuous V, across Earth and -into space. When the last swan had left the Moon became just another -piece of colored rock. - - * * * * * - -Al Marcusson opened his eyes and made his way dully back into the -dust cloud now shot with flashes of red-orange as Earth's laser beams -searched for the capsule's nerve centers. He bumped against a strut and -forced his way in. - -A hum filled the capsule. Ungainly jointed limbs, paddles, calyxes, -sprouted from its outside walls. On Earth pens jiggled, tapes were -punched, rows of figures in five columns appeared on blank pages, -pulses jumped and two groggy, worn-out faces appeared on the control -room screens. Hatter's eyes flickered over the boards and he opened his -mouth. Some time later his disembodied voice came out of the monitor, -reading dials, reporting on systems. Then the screens showed Al -Marcusson's eyes opening in turn. Control could see him leaning forward -towards the port, his face drawn in haggard lines and shadows, then -letting his head fall back. "Hey," he said, "didn't Doc tell you guys -dust gives me hay fever?" - -On Earth the men about the screens slapped each other's backs and -grinned and wiped their eyes. Good old bellyaching Marcusson! Good old -Al! 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