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"Come!" cried the assassin, "we have no time to lose," and started for the aperture through which they had entered the chamber; but in his stride he paused as his glance was arrested by the form of the mighty rykor Iying prone upon the floor -- a king's rykor; the most beautiful, the most powerful, that the breeders of Bantoom could produce.

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By similar steps the rykor came to go upon its hind feet that the kaldane might be able to see farther.

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"Where did you find this rykor with the strange kaldane that cannot detach itself?"

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While the rykor ate Ghek sat listening for the scraping sandals and clattering arms that he knew soon would come.

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Between the purely physical rykor and the purely mental kaldane there was little choice; but in the happy medium of normal, and imperfect man, as she knew him, lay the most desirable state of existence.

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Ghek realized that in his escape he could take with him but a single rykor, and there was none in Bantoom that could give him better service than this giant Iying here.

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The brain of the rykor grew smaller as time went on.

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When the warriors had departed from the prison in which Ghek was confined, the kaldane crawled from the shoulders of the rykor to the table.

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Ghek lost no time in returning to the chamber, recovering the key, relocking the rykor to his chain.

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Ghek had temporarily abandoned his rykor after enlisting Turan's assistance in lashing it safely to the deck.

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