She was crouched in her ivory chair overcome, and her eyes were closed, either through faintness or to shut out the sight of dread.

Then he looked down at Otter.

The dwarf, staring fixedly at the water, sat still as the stone effigy that supported him.

Evidently in all his varied experience he had seen no such thing as this.
"The Snake has accepted the sacrifice," cried Nam again; "the Snake has taken her who was his bride to dwell with him in his holy house.

Let the offerings be completed, for this is but the first-fruit.