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If you -are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the -country where you are located before using this eBook. -</div> - -<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:1em; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: Slave of eternity</p> -<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Roger Dee</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: October 25, 2022 [eBook #69232]</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em; text-align:left'>Produced by: Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net.</p> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SLAVE OF ETERNITY ***</div> - -<div class="titlepage"> - -<h1>SLAVE OF ETERNITY</h1> - -<h2>By ROGER DEE</h2> - -<p><i>An eye for an eye, a tooth for a<br /> -tooth ... these were the familiar<br /> -laws of man—Far more fiendish was<br /> -Heric's punishment—eternal<br /> -life for the death he'd taken!</i></p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Super Science Stories May 1950.<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>"You have no choice," the patrolman said. "The Council sends for you."</p> - -<p>He moved across the veranda of Heric's cottage, bulking dark against -the sky-glow of Nyark the first city. On the slope of lawn below stood -his copter, its beetle-black shell glistening faintly in the starshine.</p> - -<p>Heric stood rigid with alarm in his doorway, still holding the book -he had been reading. The night-wind ruffling his hair and the homely -sounds from the kitchen where Marta prepared their evening meal made -his danger doubly fantastic.</p> - -<p>"They've found out somehow about my dreams," Heric said. "They'll put -me through the adjuster and I'll come out of it—someone else. I won't -go!"</p> - -<p>He was a mild man, overseer of the cereal grain fields outside Nyark -the first city, holding the confidence of his superiors and the respect -of his workers. He and Marta had been happy in the quiet eddy of their -isolation, until the dreams came.</p> - -<p>The patrolman took a gleaming silver shock-cone from his belt. "I am -sorry, Arnol Heric. You must come with me."</p> - -<p>Stark panic made Heric drop his book and strike out wildly, smashing a -fist into the officer's face. The patrolman staggered back, teetered -for balance on the veranda's edge and fell heavily. The sound of his -head striking the stone walkway below was as definite as the thud of a -dropped melon.</p> - -<p>Heric went down the steps and knelt to feel the man's limp wrist. There -was no pulse. He put an ear to the slack lips, and there was no breath. -Shock numbed him and drove his thoughts into strange, tortured channels.</p> - -<p>"I've killed him," he said.</p> - -<p>A sound caught his ear and he looked up to see Marta on the dark -veranda above him, her face a pale oval blur with enormous, -fright-widened eyes. "I didn't intend this to happen, Marta. I—I lost -my head."</p> - -<p>She came down at once and put a soft hand on his shoulder. "Of course, -of course, darling. Here, let me help you."</p> - -<p>Together they lifted the patrolman's body into the copter's control -seat, where it lolled bonelessly against the instrument panel. Heric -touched a button and the machine rose and soared eastward on a random -course away from Nyark the first city.</p> - -<p>They watched, holding hands like uneasy children, until it was lost -against the stars. Then they went inside to the light and warmth of -their cottage.</p> - -<p>Heric voiced the thought first: "They'll send for me again tomorrow, -when he doesn't return."</p> - -<p>He had again the ominous sensation, felt a dozen times in as many days, -of being very close to understanding the strange auguries that had so -troubled his sleep of late. For a moment he hovered on the brink of -complete comprehension before his fearful thought recoiled, leaving him -uneasy and bewildered.</p> - -<p>When he slept the dream came more strongly than before.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><i>The sere globe of Earth spun below him, frightfully riven by the -half-healed wounds of some ancient cataclysm. Dull seas steamed and -rain fell and vegetation crept across the scars, but there was life in -one place only.</i></p> - -<p><i>There was a ruined city like a forest of standing shards, rising stark -and cold against a desolate sky. A horde of silent figures poured -through its streets, bent upon a myriad errands whose purposes he might -have guessed but dared not—he found himself one of the throng, yet his -dread of understanding hid their intent as a mist might have obscured -their faces. The crowd moved always eastward, its thousand faces rapt -in impossible ecstasy. His own expectancy mounted to an unbearable -pitch, stifling him with the promise of total understanding. He had -only to follow them and—</i></p> - -<p>He awoke to find himself crouched on the cold floor of his bedroom, -drenched with perspiration and trembling violently from the strain of -fighting back the monstrous concept toward which his dream had carried -him.</p> - -<p>Marta's voice was urgent in his ears. Marta's hands tugged at his arm, -her breath was warm on his damp face. "Arnol, wake up! <i>Arnol!</i>"</p> - -<p>For an instant he had an indescribable sense of being infinitely -multiplied, as if this moment were reproduced forever, a single frame -in a succession that stretched endlessly before and behind him. Then -the dream tilted and swept away and he let Marta lead him, unresisting, -back to bed.</p> - -<p>For a long time he lay shivering in the darkness, his face hidden -against her warm shoulder. And at last, when the tension had gone out -of him, he slept again.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>They came for him at daybreak, four burly patrolmen with Council -insignia on their helmets and silver shock-cones in their hands. Heric -looked back as he entered their copter to see Marta on the verandah, -lovely in the soft disarray of her too-early rising, her eyes bright -and blind with unshed tears.</p> - -<p>"I'll come back," he called. "It's going to be all right!"</p> - -<p>When the copter rose he waved at her, buoyed up unexpectedly by the -ring of certainty he had managed to force into his voice. He had a -last glimpse of Marta before distance and the morning mists hid her, a -small, forlorn figure with raised face staring after him, her belted -house-robe fluttering in the wind.</p> - -<p>They sank through the ordered vastness of Nyark the first city, into -a bustle and rush that was symbolic of the Council's will to restore -Nyark—and finally Earth—to their former glory. Heric was led to a -quiet chamber where the Council, in their deep crescent of seats behind -the Leader's throne, awaited him.</p> - -<p>He had seen them before only in newscasts, when it had awed him a -little to think that in their hands lay the destiny of a world in -rebirth. He was surprised now to feel that their wrinkled parchment -faces and thin bodies, hidden under sleeveless blue robes, lent them a -futile anonymity rather than the distinction he had expected. <i>Why</i>, he -thought, <i>they look like scrawny, earthbound birds.</i></p> - -<p>"Why am I here?" Heric demanded. Rebellion grew in him, roughening his -voice. "I have broken no law, nor have I been lax in my overseeing. I -protest this adjustment to what you call normalcy."</p> - -<p>"Yet you must endure it, Arnol Heric," the Leader said. A rustle of -assent whispered through the robed Council. "You should not have defied -our messenger. It may be too late now."</p> - -<p>Anger swelled Heric's demand. "What do you mean?"</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus1.jpg" alt=""/> - <div class="caption"> - <p>He felt the breath of madness touch him....</p> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>His answer was a great, cloudy bubble that sprang from nowhere about -him. The Council vanished behind its milky haze. There was a brief -sensation of motion, and after that—nothing.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p><i>He was in the void of his dreams again, imprisoned in darkness. -But there was a difference—the dull globe of Earth spun faint and -misty, half-seen through an obscuring curtain. A smooth, hypnotic -thought-current flowed into his mind from the adjuster, commanding him, -warring with the half-sensed truth that still sought his awareness.</i></p> - -<p><i>"You are Arnol Heric, overseer of cereal plantings. You have had -no disturbing dreams. Forget, Arnol Heric. There is no need for -alarm...."</i></p> - -<p><i>There was a long struggle before his will fought clear, and he knew -that the Leader's fear of being too late had been realized. The pitted -Earth-sphere grew plain, the desolate city sharpened and drew near. He -walked the thronged streets and turned his face toward the east, and -this time he did not repulse the truth when it lay before him.</i></p> - -<p><i>There was a silent room where a figure reclined laxly in a chair made -massive by its crystal maze of shining coils. Two guards flanked the -chair watchfully, and in it sat—</i></p> - -<p><i>Himself.</i></p> - -<p>Anger shook him like a terrible wind, without warning. It was all a -monstrous farce, then—he was the center of it all, and they had hidden -him in his overseer's niche to blind him to reality.</p> - -<p>He opened his eyes in the adjuster, pushing the futile thought-current -from his mind. The guards stiffened at his movement, their silver -shock-cones ready.</p> - -<p>"I know myself now," Heric said. He stood up, shaking off the web of -crystal contacts from the adjuster. "And I know you. Put away your -useless weapons."</p> - -<p>They dropped their cones and stood with lowered eyes, waiting his -pleasure with a deference that made his lip curl. He left the room -without a backward look, knowing they would warn the Council but having -no need now for secrecy.</p> - -<p>He went down a wide-arched corridor, striding with sure step to the -city's heart. He found the power source at ground level, in a vast -dim cavern full of soft-purring machines. He singled out the great -operations board with its master switch that controlled the city's -life—and in his path he found the Leader and his council, shielding -the control from him with the massed crescent of their bodies.</p> - -<p>"Stand back," Heric commanded.</p> - -<p>The Council stirred uneasily, but did not break.</p> - -<p>"Hear us out, Arnol Heric," the Leader begged. "Remember that we, being -not-human, yet have human emotions. We are the end result of the robot -race men created to serve them in ages past, and you are right when -you suppose that we may not defy you because we are your property. But -there is a thing which you do not know, hidden from you even in your -dreams for your own safety. Stay your hand, Master."</p> - -<p>The sound of Heric's laughter echoed emptily through the vast room.</p> - -<p>"Stay my hand and let you adjust me into submission again? Let you send -me back to planting wheat, drowning my identity in ignorance? I know -the human race is almost dead—I know that you hide the truth from the -few of us who remain because you think us doomed to extinction. You -would bury us in ignorance and rule in our stead as if you were men and -we your servants."</p> - -<p>"<i>We</i> are the servants," the Leader said. "Yet you would immobilize us. -Why?"</p> - -<p>"Because I would rather know my fate and meet it without your -meddling," Heric answered. "Because I do not believe that my race -can ever die completely. I shall stop you in your tracks like the -mechanical things you are, and I shall find the others of my people who -are left and start life over with them. And this time we shall know -better than to build machines!"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>"We have no desire to perpetuate ourselves," the Leader said. "We were -created to serve humanity, and to insure our obedience to the love -of men was made our strongest instinct. Without men our life would be -an endless torture of loneliness, for we can be happy only in your -happiness. We hid the truth from you, and kept you busy outside Nyark -the first city, to protect your sanity."</p> - -<p>Heric took a forward step. "Back, all of you!"</p> - -<p>They drew aside to let him pass. The Leader knelt as Heric brushed by -him, and the Council knelt with averted faces behind him. Their sigh -whispered through the great room.</p> - -<p>"Wait, Arnol Heric. Do you know that we have made you immortal?"</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus2.jpg" alt=""/> - <div class="caption"> - <p>"Wait, Arnol Heric. Do you know that we have made you immortal?"</p> - </div> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>He paused with his hands upon the master control, disturbed by a -resurgence of that indescribable extension he had felt on waking from -his dream. Angrily he shook it off, bracing himself.</p> - -<p>He wrenched open the switch.</p> - -<p>The machine-murmur died. The cavernous chamber stilled until Heric's -heart beat loud in the tomblike silence. The Council knelt motionless, -like even rows of cold statuary.</p> - -<p>He turned from them and went through the hushed room and out into the -streets of Nyark the first city. Silence lay before him. Vehicles stood -unpowered, drivers frozen. In the shops the crowds hovered motionless -like static, three-dimensional shadows.</p> - -<p>He went swiftly through the dead city with his face turned toward the -hills. The silence bore him down with an implacable weight, and the -desire to escape it grew upon him until he found himself running, -dodging wildly in and out among stalled vehicles and frozen pedestrians.</p> - -<p>He reached the city's edge, but the sun and wind of open country did -not dispel his oppression. The sun was as silent as the city, and the -breeze was a drear lament in his ears. Loneliness crept at his heels -like a black, timorous hound; he felt as if he were the only living -thing in a dead and forgotten world. Panic claimed him.</p> - -<p>It was noon when he reached his cottage. He crawled up the verandah -steps, spent and panting, and found the silence with him here even in -his last retreat.</p> - -<p>"Marta!" he croaked. He pulled himself erect, clutching at the arched -doorway for support.</p> - -<p>"Marta!"</p> - -<p>He had been so sure that there would be other men. He had been able to -fend off madness back there on the plain, only because he had known -that Marta was here waiting for him....</p> - -<p>He found her standing in the silent living room, her still face turned -toward the door through which he must come when he returned. She wore -the clinging, colorful gown he had liked best, and her bright, fair -hair was carefully arranged as if she were on the point of going out.</p> - -<p>Her lashes were lowered as if in sleep, and he had the instant -conviction that she had closed her lids to hide the mechanical luster -of her eyes from him when he should come and find her.</p> - -<p>"<i>Marta</i>," he whispered.</p> - -<p>He sagged against the entrance arch, with the bitter sound of the -Leader's words in his ears: "We can be happy only in your happiness...."</p> - -<p>Not one of them was human, not even Marta. He was the last man on Earth.</p> - -<p>And he was immortal.</p> - -<p>This was the thing that had been hidden from him even in his dream, -lest he go mad. This silence that pressed him down was the silence of -eternity.</p> - -<p>He was alone in a world of death and dust, and would be alone forever.</p> - -<p>He felt the breath of madness touch him. He heard the Council's sighing -whisper of "<i>Immortal</i> ..." and he recalled the eerie sensation of -infinite multiplication that had come to him when he pulled open the -master switch.</p> - -<p>He thought: <i>How many times has this happened? And how many times will -it happen again?</i></p> - -<p>When he spoke, he used unconsciously the same words he had used when he -left her at daybreak.</p> - -<p>"I'll come back, Marta," he said. 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