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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: Tydore's Gift - -Author: Alfred Coppel - -Release Date: December 6, 2020 [EBook #63975] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TYDORE'S GIFT *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1>TYDORE'S GIFT</h1> - -<h2>By ALFRED COPPEL</h2> - -<p>So unpredictable, these dead-world Tower Dwellers!<br /> -Take old Tydore who placed such an inestimably<br /> -valuable gift in the greed-hands of one he hated.</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Planet Stories September 1951.<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>The sun was a shrunken red disk against the starfields, a distant -pale luminosity surrendering to the encroachment of the falling night. -Hoarfrost crunched under Marley's feet as he walked by the still black -waters of the canal, and then thin wind whispered over the sand and -across the breasts of the ancient hills. Starlight gleamed in the dark -water as the day faded. Earth hung low in the sky, like an emerald -pendant over the bosom of a sleeping woman.</p> - -<p>Marley pulled his silks and furs closer about his shoulders. The air -was sharp and cold. His breath froze wraithlike in the icy evening as -he hurried down the path toward Tydore's tower.</p> - -<p>The green planet shone like a beacon in his eyes. Home. The thought -brought impatience and a longing to walk again under a pale sky and a -warm sun. He looked about him with faint distaste. This peace—this -solitude of low red hills and blue-black nights—was alien to Marley. -It was unreal. Mars was a dream. An ancient wasted slumbering dream.</p> - -<p>Marley's lips compressed as he thought of Tydore and their last -meeting. It seemed that Tydore laughed at him. Tydore withheld too -much, and there was so little time left. There was an acrid core -of decadence in the old Martian, Marley thought. A consciousness -of too many millenia of civilization and decay. Devious was the -word, perhaps, though it seemed a pallid one for the reality of the -Martian's intricate mind. It was always impossible to know what he was -thinking—how much he knew. About Marley being a spy. About the war on -Earth. In spite of himself, Marley smiled. It sounded so melodramatic -that way, but it was the way it really was. The Martians held the -perfect weapon. Marley needed that weapon, and his nation had put forth -a gigantic effort to get him to Mars so that he might steal it.</p> - -<p>Tydore's tower loomed up before him in the fading light, a fey -filligree of minarettes and graceful flying buttresses too delicate -for a grosser world than Mars. The tower's reflection shimmered in the -still dark waters of the canal like an alter ego extending deep into -the liquid depths.</p> - -<p>Marley descended the steps of delicately wrought stone that led to the -tower's underground entrance with care, for the drifted ferric sand -made them treacherous. How like the Martians, he thought with some -irritation, to make it necessary to travel down in order to enter a -tower. Everything the long way, the hard and devious way.</p> - -<p>The outer doorway was shaped like a fleur-de-lis and it opened from the -top down, sliding into a recess of ancient, oily machinery. It would -be far too simple to make a door that looked and worked like a door. -Everything Marley had seen during his months on Mars served only to -increase his sense of alienage. He had seen only Tydore, of course, of -the living Martians. There were only a handful left and they lived -in their isolated towers along the still canals surrounded by their -tissue-thin manuscripts and ancient, reedlike music spools that filled -the air of their retreats with skeins of weird and enharmonic melody.</p> - -<p>The weapon was Tydore's. He had rebuilt it from plans drawn by some -ensorcelled armorer dead over five thousand years. Rebuilt it in the -paradoxical way that Martians seemed to do everything, for if there was -one thing that no Martian needed it was a weapon. No strife had marred -the planet's peace for millenia. But build it he had, and Marley's -hands itched for the sleek deadliness of it—the smooth grained stock, -the oddly wrought, ornate muzzle. There was a vicious, tangy violence -frozen into every line of the weapon. And it was the only hand gun -Marley had ever seen that chained the forces of the atom. With such -weapons an army could be invincible.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Tydore stood to greet him. With the elaborate courtesy of his kind, he -performed the ritual gestures of welcome, his slender, finely veined -hands tracing the ancient symbols in the air.</p> - -<p>"The gods of sand and wind have brought you safely to my house, man -of Earth. I give thanks and pray you find peace and wisdom within my -walls."</p> - -<p>The old Martian's chanting voice was like the fluting grace of a -Scarlatti choral. It was one with the miniscule paintings that covered -the walls, the finely wrought carvings on the antique flagstones under -his feet. Marley was not at home in the fluid Martian tongue, but the -very sound of the words conjured for him the serried ranks of spectral -generations that had reached their culmination in this one robed -ancient.</p> - -<p>And yet, he thought with irritation, Tydore's words mean not at all -what they said. Through the finely polished phrases of welcome ran -a thread of hidden mockery—even hate—for Marley and everything he -represented. Never once had Tydore, by word or deed, indicated that he -felt anything but friendship for his visitor from the silvery ship out -on the desert, and yet there was no mistaking the nuance of contempt. -Tydore despised Marley as an outworld savage. One with the despoilers -of the holy places of Mars.</p> - -<p>Not that the Martians had gods. They had lived too long for that, and -their deities existed only in their beautifully turned phrases and -their hyper-cultured ritual. But the first men from Earth had looted -the libraries and shattered the soaring towers. It was a thing no -Martian would ever forget—or forgive. It marked Earthmen for what -they were. In Martian eyes—precocious barbarians. Targets for Martian -subtlety.</p> - -<p>"I give thanks for your welcome," Marley said slowly, his tongue clumsy -on the singing syllables.</p> - -<p>Tydore inclined his head slightly and indicated that Marley should -follow him up the winding ramp that pierced the core of the tower. Each -time Marley came, the ritual was the same, as unchanging as the still -waters of the dark canals or the frozen loneliness of the red hills -beyond. They would pass the first level, where the old engines supplied -Tydore with what little heat and sustenance he needed. They would go on -to the second level, where the music spools lay in ordered confusion -amid the sonic transcribers that Tydore used to weave the sounds of the -Martian night into atonal poems of melody. And then they would reach -the level of the weapon.</p> - -<p>It would still be in its crystal case, guarded by a lock of bronze. A -lock to which there was one key, and that one key on a silver chain -around Tydore's neck. They would pass the weapon by and seek the top -level, a platform shielded against the frigid night by a crystal -canopy. And there they would begin their nightly fencing with words and -ideas under the guise of friendship.</p> - -<p>Marley's heart was pounding suddenly as he drew near to the weapon. His -patience was failing him at long last, he knew. He was sick of Mars, -sick of Tydore. Sick of posing as a humble seeker after knowledge. If -he could not trick the Martian into parting with the weapon soon, he -knew that he must chance violence. He had not dared it before, because -he could never be sure that Tydore and his kind were as defenseless as -they seemed. It was paradoxical that they should possess a weapon such -as <i>the</i> weapon and yet be unwilling or unable to use it.</p> - -<p>Still it seemed to Marley that such must be the case. He could only -explain it to himself by saying that they had lived too long, amid -too much deviousness and inverted purpose to be quite virile. They -were—the word came readily to mind from the days of his training on -Earth—decadent. And the meek did not inherit the earth or anything -else, he told himself with satisfaction. Only the militant, the -ruthless.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The time had come, Marley thought, for the calculated risk. Direct -action. He could scarcely contain himself as they passed the weapon and -climbed to the top level.</p> - -<p>"You seem preoccupied tonight, Marley," Tydore said, pouring two tiny -goblets of wine, "Can it be that you grow tired of Mars?"</p> - -<p>Marley sipped the wine thoughtfully. To him it seemed completely -insipid and without flavor. Subtlety again? He doubted it. "I mean to -ask a favor of you, Tydore," he said, "And I but ponder how I should -begin."</p> - -<p>"My house is yours," the Martian replied softly, "And all that it -contains."</p> - -<p>Marley's eyes narrowed. Did he imagine the accent on the last phrase, -or was it actually there? He decided to be very cautious. "I came here, -as you know," he said, "To learn everything I might about your kind. As -you know, we of Earth are a young race, still much in need of guidance -and knowledge."</p> - -<p>"You have learned much," Tydore said.</p> - -<p>Marley's tone grew harder. "But not enough."</p> - -<p>Tydore's eyebrows arched delicately. "So? You have read my books, -listened to my music. You have tasted the wines and eaten the fruits of -Mars. You have seen the stars and the sand, the waters and the lichens. -Have you not known my world?"</p> - -<p>"I want more," Marley said flatly.</p> - -<p>Tydore smiled. In that smile Marley saw a flash of more distilled -venom and ancient hatred that he could have imagined existed. The utter -virulence of it left him shaken and his illogical fear brought anger.</p> - -<p>He got to his feet, the tiny goblet in his hand. It was old and -delicate, a tiny gem of carved jade and ivory. To one such as -Tydore—priceless. Brutally, Marley crushed it to shards in his hands -and dropped it to the flagstones. The fragments tinkled as they fell.</p> - -<p>"So it must always be," said Tydore in a soft voice.</p> - -<p>"I have not come here to listen to music, Tydore," Marley said, "Nor to -read your books or to know your world. You have one thing that I want. -You will give it to me, or I will take it from you." He ground his heel -onto the remains of the goblet with a grating sound.</p> - -<p>"The weapon," the Martian said, "You want the weapon. You may have it. -You need not have broken my goblet...."</p> - -<p>Marley was almost sorry that he had won so easily. He suddenly wanted -to crush the old Martian as he had crushed the goblet. In both there -was a quality that eluded him, and it was maddening.</p> - -<p>Tydore handed him the key. "Come, we will get it together."</p> - -<p>Marley followed him cautiously, alert for any trickery. Presently they -stood before the case and Marley unlocked it, reaching greedily for -the polished stock. He cradled the gun in his arms lovingly, savoring -triumph. With this in his hands, he could defy a world.</p> - -<p>"There is no other like it, nor any but I to make one," Tydore said -with a strange smile.</p> - -<p>"Why did you make it?" asked Marley.</p> - -<p>"I made it for you."</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" alt=""/> - <div class="caption"> - <p>"<i>I made it for you....</i>"</p> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>Marley laughed aloud. It was an alien sound in the thin, cold air of -the tower. "You're a liar, Tydore. You built this weapon long before I -ever left Earth and you know it."</p> - -<p>"By you, I meant simply men like you," Tydore said. "When the first -Earthmen came and befouled Mars with their presence, I knew that I -must make the weapon." He smiled, showing even white teeth. "A small -triumph, but things are not to be measured by whether they are great -or small. Rather by their flavor, their grace, and their neatness, -Marley."</p> - -<p>"You speak of triumph, old man," snorted Marley derisively, "while your -precious weapon is in my hands."</p> - -<p>Tydore shrugged. "As I knew it would be one day when I spread the tales -of what the weapon would do. It drew you as a lodestone draws a sliver -of iron."</p> - -<p>Marley felt a pang of panic. "You mean this thing is a fake?"</p> - -<p>Tydore shook his head. "No counterfeit. It will do what I said it would -do. Kill. What more can one ask of a weapon?"</p> - -<p>It was Marley's turn to smile. "Nothing. And there is only this one. -And if you were to die...."</p> - -<p>Tydore smiled a veiled smile. "It is as the gods of sand and wind -decree."</p> - -<p>Marley pointed the weapon at Tydore. He had only to kill the old -Martian and return to his ship. The mission was over. Completed. He was -done with Mars and with Tydore and his subtle scorn.</p> - -<p>He cradled the weapon lovingly, laying his cheek to the carven stock. -Old Tydore had built well. There was perfect balance in the feel of -it. His finger curled around the trigger and he sighted carefully down -the long barrel at the robed figure of the Martian. Tydore was smiling -in the face of death, and Marley wanted to laugh out loud. This is the -way the world ends, he was thinking. Not with a bang but a whimper. He -squeezed the trigger....</p> - -<p>The universe exploded in Marley's face. There was a streak of searing -pain that carried away half his face, and as he fell he could hear a -strange sound. For the first time, Tydore was laughing aloud. It was a -hideous sound. A voice for the torment and hatred of a race that had -lived too long, planned too much. Marley felt the tower pinwheel around -him, the flagstones leapt up to meet him, greeting the searing agony of -his face with the soundless laughter of a million intricate patterns of -lonely death. And blackness welled up out of the stones to engulf him, -but not before he knew—</p> - -<p>Tydore had made the weapon with the muzzle resembling the stock. 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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: Tydore's Gift - -Author: Alfred Coppel - -Release Date: December 6, 2020 [EBook #63975] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TYDORE'S GIFT *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - TYDORE'S GIFT - - By ALFRED COPPEL - - So unpredictable, these dead-world Tower Dwellers! - Take old Tydore who placed such an inestimably - valuable gift in the greed-hands of one he hated. - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Planet Stories September 1951. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - -The sun was a shrunken red disk against the starfields, a distant -pale luminosity surrendering to the encroachment of the falling night. -Hoarfrost crunched under Marley's feet as he walked by the still black -waters of the canal, and then thin wind whispered over the sand and -across the breasts of the ancient hills. Starlight gleamed in the dark -water as the day faded. Earth hung low in the sky, like an emerald -pendant over the bosom of a sleeping woman. - -Marley pulled his silks and furs closer about his shoulders. The air -was sharp and cold. His breath froze wraithlike in the icy evening as -he hurried down the path toward Tydore's tower. - -The green planet shone like a beacon in his eyes. Home. The thought -brought impatience and a longing to walk again under a pale sky and a -warm sun. He looked about him with faint distaste. This peace--this -solitude of low red hills and blue-black nights--was alien to Marley. -It was unreal. Mars was a dream. An ancient wasted slumbering dream. - -Marley's lips compressed as he thought of Tydore and their last -meeting. It seemed that Tydore laughed at him. Tydore withheld too -much, and there was so little time left. There was an acrid core -of decadence in the old Martian, Marley thought. A consciousness -of too many millenia of civilization and decay. Devious was the -word, perhaps, though it seemed a pallid one for the reality of the -Martian's intricate mind. It was always impossible to know what he was -thinking--how much he knew. About Marley being a spy. About the war on -Earth. In spite of himself, Marley smiled. It sounded so melodramatic -that way, but it was the way it really was. The Martians held the -perfect weapon. Marley needed that weapon, and his nation had put forth -a gigantic effort to get him to Mars so that he might steal it. - -Tydore's tower loomed up before him in the fading light, a fey -filligree of minarettes and graceful flying buttresses too delicate -for a grosser world than Mars. The tower's reflection shimmered in the -still dark waters of the canal like an alter ego extending deep into -the liquid depths. - -Marley descended the steps of delicately wrought stone that led to the -tower's underground entrance with care, for the drifted ferric sand -made them treacherous. How like the Martians, he thought with some -irritation, to make it necessary to travel down in order to enter a -tower. Everything the long way, the hard and devious way. - -The outer doorway was shaped like a fleur-de-lis and it opened from the -top down, sliding into a recess of ancient, oily machinery. It would -be far too simple to make a door that looked and worked like a door. -Everything Marley had seen during his months on Mars served only to -increase his sense of alienage. He had seen only Tydore, of course, of -the living Martians. There were only a handful left and they lived -in their isolated towers along the still canals surrounded by their -tissue-thin manuscripts and ancient, reedlike music spools that filled -the air of their retreats with skeins of weird and enharmonic melody. - -The weapon was Tydore's. He had rebuilt it from plans drawn by some -ensorcelled armorer dead over five thousand years. Rebuilt it in the -paradoxical way that Martians seemed to do everything, for if there was -one thing that no Martian needed it was a weapon. No strife had marred -the planet's peace for millenia. But build it he had, and Marley's -hands itched for the sleek deadliness of it--the smooth grained stock, -the oddly wrought, ornate muzzle. There was a vicious, tangy violence -frozen into every line of the weapon. And it was the only hand gun -Marley had ever seen that chained the forces of the atom. With such -weapons an army could be invincible. - - * * * * * - -Tydore stood to greet him. With the elaborate courtesy of his kind, he -performed the ritual gestures of welcome, his slender, finely veined -hands tracing the ancient symbols in the air. - -"The gods of sand and wind have brought you safely to my house, man -of Earth. I give thanks and pray you find peace and wisdom within my -walls." - -The old Martian's chanting voice was like the fluting grace of a -Scarlatti choral. It was one with the miniscule paintings that covered -the walls, the finely wrought carvings on the antique flagstones under -his feet. Marley was not at home in the fluid Martian tongue, but the -very sound of the words conjured for him the serried ranks of spectral -generations that had reached their culmination in this one robed -ancient. - -And yet, he thought with irritation, Tydore's words mean not at all -what they said. Through the finely polished phrases of welcome ran -a thread of hidden mockery--even hate--for Marley and everything he -represented. Never once had Tydore, by word or deed, indicated that he -felt anything but friendship for his visitor from the silvery ship out -on the desert, and yet there was no mistaking the nuance of contempt. -Tydore despised Marley as an outworld savage. One with the despoilers -of the holy places of Mars. - -Not that the Martians had gods. They had lived too long for that, and -their deities existed only in their beautifully turned phrases and -their hyper-cultured ritual. But the first men from Earth had looted -the libraries and shattered the soaring towers. It was a thing no -Martian would ever forget--or forgive. It marked Earthmen for what -they were. In Martian eyes--precocious barbarians. Targets for Martian -subtlety. - -"I give thanks for your welcome," Marley said slowly, his tongue clumsy -on the singing syllables. - -Tydore inclined his head slightly and indicated that Marley should -follow him up the winding ramp that pierced the core of the tower. Each -time Marley came, the ritual was the same, as unchanging as the still -waters of the dark canals or the frozen loneliness of the red hills -beyond. They would pass the first level, where the old engines supplied -Tydore with what little heat and sustenance he needed. They would go on -to the second level, where the music spools lay in ordered confusion -amid the sonic transcribers that Tydore used to weave the sounds of the -Martian night into atonal poems of melody. And then they would reach -the level of the weapon. - -It would still be in its crystal case, guarded by a lock of bronze. A -lock to which there was one key, and that one key on a silver chain -around Tydore's neck. They would pass the weapon by and seek the top -level, a platform shielded against the frigid night by a crystal -canopy. And there they would begin their nightly fencing with words and -ideas under the guise of friendship. - -Marley's heart was pounding suddenly as he drew near to the weapon. His -patience was failing him at long last, he knew. He was sick of Mars, -sick of Tydore. Sick of posing as a humble seeker after knowledge. If -he could not trick the Martian into parting with the weapon soon, he -knew that he must chance violence. He had not dared it before, because -he could never be sure that Tydore and his kind were as defenseless as -they seemed. It was paradoxical that they should possess a weapon such -as _the_ weapon and yet be unwilling or unable to use it. - -Still it seemed to Marley that such must be the case. He could only -explain it to himself by saying that they had lived too long, amid -too much deviousness and inverted purpose to be quite virile. They -were--the word came readily to mind from the days of his training on -Earth--decadent. And the meek did not inherit the earth or anything -else, he told himself with satisfaction. Only the militant, the -ruthless. - - * * * * * - -The time had come, Marley thought, for the calculated risk. Direct -action. He could scarcely contain himself as they passed the weapon and -climbed to the top level. - -"You seem preoccupied tonight, Marley," Tydore said, pouring two tiny -goblets of wine, "Can it be that you grow tired of Mars?" - -Marley sipped the wine thoughtfully. To him it seemed completely -insipid and without flavor. Subtlety again? He doubted it. "I mean to -ask a favor of you, Tydore," he said, "And I but ponder how I should -begin." - -"My house is yours," the Martian replied softly, "And all that it -contains." - -Marley's eyes narrowed. Did he imagine the accent on the last phrase, -or was it actually there? He decided to be very cautious. "I came here, -as you know," he said, "To learn everything I might about your kind. As -you know, we of Earth are a young race, still much in need of guidance -and knowledge." - -"You have learned much," Tydore said. - -Marley's tone grew harder. "But not enough." - -Tydore's eyebrows arched delicately. "So? You have read my books, -listened to my music. You have tasted the wines and eaten the fruits of -Mars. You have seen the stars and the sand, the waters and the lichens. -Have you not known my world?" - -"I want more," Marley said flatly. - -Tydore smiled. In that smile Marley saw a flash of more distilled -venom and ancient hatred that he could have imagined existed. The utter -virulence of it left him shaken and his illogical fear brought anger. - -He got to his feet, the tiny goblet in his hand. It was old and -delicate, a tiny gem of carved jade and ivory. To one such as -Tydore--priceless. Brutally, Marley crushed it to shards in his hands -and dropped it to the flagstones. The fragments tinkled as they fell. - -"So it must always be," said Tydore in a soft voice. - -"I have not come here to listen to music, Tydore," Marley said, "Nor to -read your books or to know your world. You have one thing that I want. -You will give it to me, or I will take it from you." He ground his heel -onto the remains of the goblet with a grating sound. - -"The weapon," the Martian said, "You want the weapon. You may have it. -You need not have broken my goblet...." - -Marley was almost sorry that he had won so easily. He suddenly wanted -to crush the old Martian as he had crushed the goblet. In both there -was a quality that eluded him, and it was maddening. - -Tydore handed him the key. "Come, we will get it together." - -Marley followed him cautiously, alert for any trickery. Presently they -stood before the case and Marley unlocked it, reaching greedily for -the polished stock. He cradled the gun in his arms lovingly, savoring -triumph. With this in his hands, he could defy a world. - -"There is no other like it, nor any but I to make one," Tydore said -with a strange smile. - -"Why did you make it?" asked Marley. - -"I made it for you." - -[Illustration: "_I made it for you...._"] - -Marley laughed aloud. It was an alien sound in the thin, cold air of -the tower. "You're a liar, Tydore. You built this weapon long before I -ever left Earth and you know it." - -"By you, I meant simply men like you," Tydore said. "When the first -Earthmen came and befouled Mars with their presence, I knew that I -must make the weapon." He smiled, showing even white teeth. "A small -triumph, but things are not to be measured by whether they are great -or small. Rather by their flavor, their grace, and their neatness, -Marley." - -"You speak of triumph, old man," snorted Marley derisively, "while your -precious weapon is in my hands." - -Tydore shrugged. "As I knew it would be one day when I spread the tales -of what the weapon would do. It drew you as a lodestone draws a sliver -of iron." - -Marley felt a pang of panic. "You mean this thing is a fake?" - -Tydore shook his head. "No counterfeit. It will do what I said it would -do. Kill. What more can one ask of a weapon?" - -It was Marley's turn to smile. "Nothing. And there is only this one. -And if you were to die...." - -Tydore smiled a veiled smile. "It is as the gods of sand and wind -decree." - -Marley pointed the weapon at Tydore. He had only to kill the old -Martian and return to his ship. The mission was over. Completed. He was -done with Mars and with Tydore and his subtle scorn. - -He cradled the weapon lovingly, laying his cheek to the carven stock. -Old Tydore had built well. There was perfect balance in the feel of -it. His finger curled around the trigger and he sighted carefully down -the long barrel at the robed figure of the Martian. Tydore was smiling -in the face of death, and Marley wanted to laugh out loud. This is the -way the world ends, he was thinking. Not with a bang but a whimper. He -squeezed the trigger.... - -The universe exploded in Marley's face. There was a streak of searing -pain that carried away half his face, and as he fell he could hear a -strange sound. For the first time, Tydore was laughing aloud. It was a -hideous sound. A voice for the torment and hatred of a race that had -lived too long, planned too much. Marley felt the tower pinwheel around -him, the flagstones leapt up to meet him, greeting the searing agony of -his face with the soundless laughter of a million intricate patterns of -lonely death. And blackness welled up out of the stones to engulf him, -but not before he knew-- - -Tydore had made the weapon with the muzzle resembling the stock. 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