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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. 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: In His Image - -Author: Bryce Walton - -Release Date: November 20, 2020 [EBook #63813] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN HIS IMAGE *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1>IN HIS IMAGE</h1> - -<h2>By BRYCE WALTON</h2> - -<p>Towering and invulnerable, they stood on the<br /> -hills, patiently awaiting their master. Meanwhile,<br /> -they slew the vermin crawling below....</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Planet Stories Winter 1948.<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>Jon ran down the long corridor and into the Old Man's room. He was -breathless as he threw himself on his face beneath the Old Man's chair -made from gypsum. A kind of savage eagerness lighted his face, but the -Old Man's face, a frozen pallid ball crinkled into a million lines, was -sad and hopelessly resigned.</p> - -<p>"I seen 'em," Jon cried. "I seen 'em." His unhealthily pallid body, -though big and rawboned, was slender and writhed with a leathery -strength that comes with constant effort and exercise rather than diet -and sun.</p> - -<p>The Old Man shrugged. His voice was a hoarse whisper in that one cavern -among the hundred and fifty miles of corridors, interlocking levels and -rivers that made up the underground hideaway.</p> - -<p>"So you seen 'em, Jon. Many have seen the Mechs. The Mechs might have -seen you too. If they ever find us here—well, they'd probe us out, -like we were grubs. And they'd burn us with those red-ray eyes. Why'd -you go up on top? You know it's against the rules."</p> - -<p>Jon got up. His chest heaved. His eyes were polished beads in a thick -nest of reddish beard.</p> - -<p>"'Cause I don't like livin' in this cave like a grub. I been up twice, -and now I can't stay down here anymore. Nobody else's got guts enough -to go up. So let 'em stay down here and rot! But I'm going back up on -top, Chief. And I'm staying up there."</p> - -<p>The Old Man leaned back. He couldn't hide the gleam of gruff respect in -his eyes. "Go ahead, Jon, but don't come back down. Once they get on -your tail, you can't shake 'em and you'd lead 'em right back here, and -then they'd get the rest of us. As far as I know, Jon, we're the only -humans left."</p> - -<p>Jon's hands clenched. "And so might all of us be dead too. Livin' down -here in this cave where they ain't never no sun, eatin' lizards and -snakes, and dyin' off one by one anyway. We're all gonna be dead in -another year. What's so great about spendin' that year crawlin' and -grubbin' down here? Scared to even take one last look at the sun? It's -not for me, Chief. I'm leavin'."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The Old Man shrugged again. "Go ahead, I said. Just promise not to ever -come back and lead them down here. You'll promise that, Jon?"</p> - -<p>Something thickened in his throat, but he managed to say yes. He -turned, then twisted back toward the Old Man. "You're smart," he said. -"You're supposed to know about when they took over. I've asked others. -No one seems to know, and they care less. Would you tell me, Chief. -What are <i>they</i>—the Mechs?"</p> - -<p>The Old Man's voice echoed strangely against the surrounding grotesque -bars of limestone stalactites and stalagmites in multicolored hues of -fusing reds and orange, purple and browns. A pinched face peered at -them from between the ancient bars, then withdrew its tired eyes.</p> - -<p>"Maybe there's fifty humans left down here in Mammoth Hole," the Old -Man said softly. "Maybe there ain't nobody else left in the world. Just -them with their silent machinery drivin' over the wastes, and their -red death eyes sweeping the dark, grubbin' for us. The big war went -on and on, nobody knows how long. But humans couldn't fight it. Too -much deadly radiation, so they made machines to fight for 'em. The sky -and the land were just masses of machines, throwing out clouds and -streamers and explosions. The land became nothing but pools and seas -of deadly dust, and fire. The sky was clouded with it. And people went -underground. They had to go down deep, and they couldn't come back up, -what was left of 'em, for hundreds of years and more."</p> - -<p>The Old Man was gazing with a distant, haunted expression at the small -blind lizard crawling up the painted wall. Jon listened, his skin was -cold. A shiver ran down his back.</p> - -<p>"Then <i>they</i> started grubbing the humans out, and killing 'em. I don't -suppose anyone knows how long it's been since <i>they</i> took over. That's -wrong. I wasn't around then. Nor my father, nor my father's father's -father. It was long, long before that. It was so long ago that—" -The Old Man's eyes widened. His voice choked off with a cloud of -unconscious fear that had slipped through.</p> - -<p>"They're godly," he whispered. "You seen 'em. They're all shapes and -angles, cubes, and small smooth running things. They all shine like -metal. And I guess they are metal. Nobody knows what they are. I heard -tell when I was a boy that they were just machines. Machines built by -humans a long time before. And that somehow or other the hard radiation -had put a spark in 'em that made 'em able to think, and move around and -organize like humans used to do. But I reckon they're more intelligent -than any humans ever were."</p> - -<p>Jon backed away. Sweat popped out coldly on his face and chest. "I -seen 'em," he choked. "I sneaked on top. I went down to the river. It -took me hours to get used to the sun. I waited until the sun started -going down, then I sneaked out and looked down the big hill that goes -into the valley. I seen two of 'em. They must have been a hundred foot -high. They was smooth. They had long snaking arms and single eyes that -shot out red beams like fire. They stood on top of the hill against -the sun. The sun was red all around 'em. They looked like they were -made of metal, all right, Chief. But how can they move by themselves, -and—and <i>think</i>, if they're metal?"</p> - -<p>The Old Man sighed. "How?" He peered at Jon with tired retreating -eyes. "What is thought," he said then. "What was life, ever? Floods of -gamma rays bathed them for centuries, and then they were living, and -they had thoughts of their own. Humans never got a chance to find out -what life was before he took it away from himself. He took it and gave -it—to <i>them</i>."</p> - -<p>The Old Man dropped his face in his shaking hands. Jon had never heard -a man crying before. He backed away slowly, then turned and ran out of -the great cavern.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>A grey dusky afternoon was dying when Jon crawled out of the small hall -between rocks and started writhing down the hill. His eyes stayed open -in fearful wonderment until tears rolled down his cheeks. The soft -greens and browns of the great forest that thinned up into the hills. -There was not the slightest hint that beneath this vast silent beauty, -stretched the enormous grotesque underworld of Mammoth Hole.</p> - -<p>Nor that in those nameless caverns and corridors along the cold and -rushing and naked rivers a few unkempt savages clung to dim memories of -centuries-lost power and surface civilization.</p> - -<p>Jon stopped. An intangible yet powerful emotion surged in him. "I'm -crawlin'," he gritted as he sat up. "I said I was sick a' crawlin.' I -ain't a grub. I'm not crawlin' anymore. Not for them damn machines, not -for anything. They can't do nothing but kill me, an' what's life down -in that hole?"</p> - -<p>He stood up. He stood up straight and started walking down the rocky -trail, and finally along the smooth greenness beside the river. His -strides were long and unhesitating, but inside him was a deep growing -horror, as he remembered those shiny silver giants that had stood so -silently on the hill against the red sunset. The huge attentive waiting -stillness, and the sudden terrible sweep of the red beamed eye and the -reaching of the metal arms.</p> - -<p>He stopped and looked down at his thin white legs, starved of the sun, -knotted and scarred from crawling over the harsh underground paths. He -looked at his gnarled pallid fingers quivering in the cold.</p> - -<p>He looked up at the sky. A few stars were showing dimly, palely. "Oh -God, give me a quick ending when my time comes, that's all I ask. Don't -let me crawl anymore on my belly. Give me the guts to keep walkin', -straight up, like I'm walkin' now."</p> - -<p>There was no answer. There was no sound except the cry of birds in the -forest, the drone of insects and other louder noises from the river. He -was alone. He walked faster.</p> - -<p>But he soon tired, because he had never walked far at a time. -Underground, people crawled a lot of the time through narrow holes. And -under there no one could walk far unless they went in circles.</p> - -<p>He sat down to rest beneath the canopy of stars. He lay back and looked -up at them, a feeling of frightful awe pressing down upon him. The -night around him was colder now, and the sounds of the night had risen -to a hungry song. And then he rolled over with a quick, terrible cry, -leaped crouching to his feet.</p> - -<p>There were at least a dozen of them. Great shiny angular and -cubed monsters sliding noiseless down the hill. A peculiar bluish -radiance pushed out around them, bathing the surrounding night in a -deadly-seeming pall.</p> - -<p>With a pathetic defiance, Jon picked up the heavy stone, stood with -legs wide apart, holding the rock in front of him. Every nerve in him -shrieked, pulling his muscles away. But he couldn't run. He couldn't -run, nor crawl anymore. A kind of dark resigned courage replaced the -first impulses of flight, and he hurled the rock. There was a futile -thud, and the rock bounded from the great unruffled wall of metal.</p> - -<p>Then—for an instant he didn't think the thoughts, the voices, were -anything but his own, strange, alien, terrifying, inspired by his own -fears.</p> - -<p>And then he realized it was the <i>Mechs</i>!</p> - -<p>"<i>A grub!</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>Yes. I thought they were all gone.</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>No. There are some remaining, deep in the soil. Central File says -they are no longer of any danger. But File also retains orders to kill -all organic things.</i>"</p> - -<p>Jon moved toward them. He moved stiffly, a strange and intangible -bulwark of purpose shielding him from the screaming horror.</p> - -<p>Something of the awful indignity of his position shook him, sent a hot -rage throbbing blindly past his temples. He heard his breath coming -hard from tightened throat. These great nameless things—machines, -intelligent metal, it didn't matter what. They had no idea of what he -was, that he had a brain, that he could think. And yet, their gigantic -thoughts were plain to him.</p> - -<p>Some time, some time so very long ago, he—his kind—humans—had made -these things. Had built them up from molten stuff, had put intricate -interlocking machinery within them so that they could move, think for -themselves, repair themselves. And then—humans had launched the Big -War, had released seething seas of basic energy, and somehow these -gigantic shiny silvery things had begun to—<i>live</i>.</p> - -<p>But to them, Jon, a human, a descendant of the humans that had made -them and had given them life, was less than the dirt under their -towering, invulnerable radiance. Less than the dust beneath their -sweeping red-death eyes. They had no conception that he was anything -but a pale, crawling, cave-worm.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Jon walked closer. He was not so much afraid for himself now. There was -more of a sweeping terror of the whole situation, the terrible futility -and irony. He wasn't afraid to die, and he knew that he had to die now, -that there was no escape, no defiance.</p> - -<p>He shook his fist at the silent, towering forms. "Damn you! It's me. -Man. Man. I'm human. I'm not crawlin'. See, I'm not crawlin', I'm -talkin' to you. I'm talkin' and I'm thinkin', too. See."</p> - -<p>"<i>It's making noises.</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>Yes. All the various species of organic life make noises peculiar to -their type. Have you not seen a grub before?</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>No. Let us kill it now. We must report back to Central File. How long -will it take to kill all organic life?</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>Central File says it will take many more years, even though now -most organic life has been destroyed. We must complete the task soon, -you know. Man will return. Glorious Mangod. Mighty Mangod. Mangod the -Creator. Mangod the Eternal!</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>Ah yes. Mighty Mangod. How long will it be before the Mangod's -coming?</i>"</p> - -<p>Jon shivered, reached out a shaking hand as though to support himself -against the air. He tried to speak, but his facial muscles seemed -frozen. He wanted to say, "I'm Man. I'm your Creator. I made you, long -ago." But he could say nothing. Nothing at all.</p> - -<p>"<i>That is not known. Mangod made us in his own image, then departed, -promising to return. Return to bring us glory and eternity.</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>May the Great Mangod who created us from the lifeless stuff of the -dirt return soon, for only then may our destiny be fulfilled.</i>"</p> - -<p>"<i>Yes. May Mangod return soon. Meanwhile, Central File demands -immediate action in preparation for that Day. Kill this grub. Soon all -organic life that stands in the way of the Mangod's coming will be -eradicated.</i>"</p> - -<p>The thunderous impact of telepathic power roared in Jon's head as he -staggered forward, fists clenched.</p> - -<p>"FOR THEE, GREAT MANGOD. FOR WHOM WE WAIT."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> - <div class="caption"> - <p>"<i>Return, oh Mangod, to bring us glory.</i>"</p> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Jon laughed. Hot tears scalded his face as he laughed. 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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. 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: In His Image - -Author: Bryce Walton - -Release Date: November 20, 2020 [EBook #63813] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK IN HIS IMAGE *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - IN HIS IMAGE - - By BRYCE WALTON - - Towering and invulnerable, they stood on the - hills, patiently awaiting their master. Meanwhile, - they slew the vermin crawling below.... - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Planet Stories Winter 1948. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -Jon ran down the long corridor and into the Old Man's room. He was -breathless as he threw himself on his face beneath the Old Man's chair -made from gypsum. A kind of savage eagerness lighted his face, but the -Old Man's face, a frozen pallid ball crinkled into a million lines, was -sad and hopelessly resigned. - -"I seen 'em," Jon cried. "I seen 'em." His unhealthily pallid body, -though big and rawboned, was slender and writhed with a leathery -strength that comes with constant effort and exercise rather than diet -and sun. - -The Old Man shrugged. His voice was a hoarse whisper in that one cavern -among the hundred and fifty miles of corridors, interlocking levels and -rivers that made up the underground hideaway. - -"So you seen 'em, Jon. Many have seen the Mechs. The Mechs might have -seen you too. If they ever find us here--well, they'd probe us out, -like we were grubs. And they'd burn us with those red-ray eyes. Why'd -you go up on top? You know it's against the rules." - -Jon got up. His chest heaved. His eyes were polished beads in a thick -nest of reddish beard. - -"'Cause I don't like livin' in this cave like a grub. I been up twice, -and now I can't stay down here anymore. Nobody else's got guts enough -to go up. So let 'em stay down here and rot! But I'm going back up on -top, Chief. And I'm staying up there." - -The Old Man leaned back. He couldn't hide the gleam of gruff respect in -his eyes. "Go ahead, Jon, but don't come back down. Once they get on -your tail, you can't shake 'em and you'd lead 'em right back here, and -then they'd get the rest of us. As far as I know, Jon, we're the only -humans left." - -Jon's hands clenched. "And so might all of us be dead too. Livin' down -here in this cave where they ain't never no sun, eatin' lizards and -snakes, and dyin' off one by one anyway. We're all gonna be dead in -another year. What's so great about spendin' that year crawlin' and -grubbin' down here? Scared to even take one last look at the sun? It's -not for me, Chief. I'm leavin'." - - * * * * * - -The Old Man shrugged again. "Go ahead, I said. Just promise not to ever -come back and lead them down here. You'll promise that, Jon?" - -Something thickened in his throat, but he managed to say yes. He -turned, then twisted back toward the Old Man. "You're smart," he said. -"You're supposed to know about when they took over. I've asked others. -No one seems to know, and they care less. Would you tell me, Chief. -What are _they_--the Mechs?" - -The Old Man's voice echoed strangely against the surrounding grotesque -bars of limestone stalactites and stalagmites in multicolored hues of -fusing reds and orange, purple and browns. A pinched face peered at -them from between the ancient bars, then withdrew its tired eyes. - -"Maybe there's fifty humans left down here in Mammoth Hole," the Old -Man said softly. "Maybe there ain't nobody else left in the world. Just -them with their silent machinery drivin' over the wastes, and their -red death eyes sweeping the dark, grubbin' for us. The big war went -on and on, nobody knows how long. But humans couldn't fight it. Too -much deadly radiation, so they made machines to fight for 'em. The sky -and the land were just masses of machines, throwing out clouds and -streamers and explosions. The land became nothing but pools and seas -of deadly dust, and fire. The sky was clouded with it. And people went -underground. They had to go down deep, and they couldn't come back up, -what was left of 'em, for hundreds of years and more." - -The Old Man was gazing with a distant, haunted expression at the small -blind lizard crawling up the painted wall. Jon listened, his skin was -cold. A shiver ran down his back. - -"Then _they_ started grubbing the humans out, and killing 'em. I don't -suppose anyone knows how long it's been since _they_ took over. That's -wrong. I wasn't around then. Nor my father, nor my father's father's -father. It was long, long before that. It was so long ago that--" -The Old Man's eyes widened. His voice choked off with a cloud of -unconscious fear that had slipped through. - -"They're godly," he whispered. "You seen 'em. They're all shapes and -angles, cubes, and small smooth running things. They all shine like -metal. And I guess they are metal. Nobody knows what they are. I heard -tell when I was a boy that they were just machines. Machines built by -humans a long time before. And that somehow or other the hard radiation -had put a spark in 'em that made 'em able to think, and move around and -organize like humans used to do. But I reckon they're more intelligent -than any humans ever were." - -Jon backed away. Sweat popped out coldly on his face and chest. "I -seen 'em," he choked. "I sneaked on top. I went down to the river. It -took me hours to get used to the sun. I waited until the sun started -going down, then I sneaked out and looked down the big hill that goes -into the valley. I seen two of 'em. They must have been a hundred foot -high. They was smooth. They had long snaking arms and single eyes that -shot out red beams like fire. They stood on top of the hill against -the sun. The sun was red all around 'em. They looked like they were -made of metal, all right, Chief. But how can they move by themselves, -and--and _think_, if they're metal?" - -The Old Man sighed. "How?" He peered at Jon with tired retreating -eyes. "What is thought," he said then. "What was life, ever? Floods of -gamma rays bathed them for centuries, and then they were living, and -they had thoughts of their own. Humans never got a chance to find out -what life was before he took it away from himself. He took it and gave -it--to _them_." - -The Old Man dropped his face in his shaking hands. Jon had never heard -a man crying before. He backed away slowly, then turned and ran out of -the great cavern. - - * * * * * - -A grey dusky afternoon was dying when Jon crawled out of the small hall -between rocks and started writhing down the hill. His eyes stayed open -in fearful wonderment until tears rolled down his cheeks. The soft -greens and browns of the great forest that thinned up into the hills. -There was not the slightest hint that beneath this vast silent beauty, -stretched the enormous grotesque underworld of Mammoth Hole. - -Nor that in those nameless caverns and corridors along the cold and -rushing and naked rivers a few unkempt savages clung to dim memories of -centuries-lost power and surface civilization. - -Jon stopped. An intangible yet powerful emotion surged in him. "I'm -crawlin'," he gritted as he sat up. "I said I was sick a' crawlin.' I -ain't a grub. I'm not crawlin' anymore. Not for them damn machines, not -for anything. They can't do nothing but kill me, an' what's life down -in that hole?" - -He stood up. He stood up straight and started walking down the rocky -trail, and finally along the smooth greenness beside the river. His -strides were long and unhesitating, but inside him was a deep growing -horror, as he remembered those shiny silver giants that had stood so -silently on the hill against the red sunset. The huge attentive waiting -stillness, and the sudden terrible sweep of the red beamed eye and the -reaching of the metal arms. - -He stopped and looked down at his thin white legs, starved of the sun, -knotted and scarred from crawling over the harsh underground paths. He -looked at his gnarled pallid fingers quivering in the cold. - -He looked up at the sky. A few stars were showing dimly, palely. "Oh -God, give me a quick ending when my time comes, that's all I ask. Don't -let me crawl anymore on my belly. Give me the guts to keep walkin', -straight up, like I'm walkin' now." - -There was no answer. There was no sound except the cry of birds in the -forest, the drone of insects and other louder noises from the river. He -was alone. He walked faster. - -But he soon tired, because he had never walked far at a time. -Underground, people crawled a lot of the time through narrow holes. And -under there no one could walk far unless they went in circles. - -He sat down to rest beneath the canopy of stars. He lay back and looked -up at them, a feeling of frightful awe pressing down upon him. The -night around him was colder now, and the sounds of the night had risen -to a hungry song. And then he rolled over with a quick, terrible cry, -leaped crouching to his feet. - -There were at least a dozen of them. Great shiny angular and -cubed monsters sliding noiseless down the hill. A peculiar bluish -radiance pushed out around them, bathing the surrounding night in a -deadly-seeming pall. - -With a pathetic defiance, Jon picked up the heavy stone, stood with -legs wide apart, holding the rock in front of him. Every nerve in him -shrieked, pulling his muscles away. But he couldn't run. He couldn't -run, nor crawl anymore. A kind of dark resigned courage replaced the -first impulses of flight, and he hurled the rock. There was a futile -thud, and the rock bounded from the great unruffled wall of metal. - -Then--for an instant he didn't think the thoughts, the voices, were -anything but his own, strange, alien, terrifying, inspired by his own -fears. - -And then he realized it was the _Mechs_! - -"_A grub!_" - -"_Yes. I thought they were all gone._" - -"_No. There are some remaining, deep in the soil. Central File says -they are no longer of any danger. But File also retains orders to kill -all organic things._" - -Jon moved toward them. He moved stiffly, a strange and intangible -bulwark of purpose shielding him from the screaming horror. - -Something of the awful indignity of his position shook him, sent a hot -rage throbbing blindly past his temples. He heard his breath coming -hard from tightened throat. These great nameless things--machines, -intelligent metal, it didn't matter what. They had no idea of what he -was, that he had a brain, that he could think. And yet, their gigantic -thoughts were plain to him. - -Some time, some time so very long ago, he--his kind--humans--had made -these things. Had built them up from molten stuff, had put intricate -interlocking machinery within them so that they could move, think for -themselves, repair themselves. And then--humans had launched the Big -War, had released seething seas of basic energy, and somehow these -gigantic shiny silvery things had begun to--_live_. - -But to them, Jon, a human, a descendant of the humans that had made -them and had given them life, was less than the dirt under their -towering, invulnerable radiance. Less than the dust beneath their -sweeping red-death eyes. They had no conception that he was anything -but a pale, crawling, cave-worm. - - * * * * * - -Jon walked closer. He was not so much afraid for himself now. There was -more of a sweeping terror of the whole situation, the terrible futility -and irony. He wasn't afraid to die, and he knew that he had to die now, -that there was no escape, no defiance. - -He shook his fist at the silent, towering forms. "Damn you! It's me. -Man. Man. I'm human. I'm not crawlin'. See, I'm not crawlin', I'm -talkin' to you. I'm talkin' and I'm thinkin', too. See." - -"_It's making noises._" - -"_Yes. All the various species of organic life make noises peculiar to -their type. Have you not seen a grub before?_" - -"_No. Let us kill it now. We must report back to Central File. How long -will it take to kill all organic life?_" - -"_Central File says it will take many more years, even though now -most organic life has been destroyed. We must complete the task soon, -you know. Man will return. Glorious Mangod. Mighty Mangod. Mangod the -Creator. Mangod the Eternal!_" - -"_Ah yes. Mighty Mangod. How long will it be before the Mangod's -coming?_" - -Jon shivered, reached out a shaking hand as though to support himself -against the air. He tried to speak, but his facial muscles seemed -frozen. He wanted to say, "I'm Man. I'm your Creator. I made you, long -ago." But he could say nothing. Nothing at all. - -"_That is not known. Mangod made us in his own image, then departed, -promising to return. Return to bring us glory and eternity._" - -"_May the Great Mangod who created us from the lifeless stuff of the -dirt return soon, for only then may our destiny be fulfilled._" - -"_Yes. May Mangod return soon. Meanwhile, Central File demands -immediate action in preparation for that Day. Kill this grub. Soon all -organic life that stands in the way of the Mangod's coming will be -eradicated._" - -The thunderous impact of telepathic power roared in Jon's head as he -staggered forward, fists clenched. - -"FOR THEE, GREAT MANGOD. FOR WHOM WE WAIT." - -[Illustration: "_Return, oh Mangod, to bring us glory._"] - -Jon laughed. Hot tears scalded his face as he laughed. 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