Open Your Doors to Change

Aug 10, 2013

“It is not because they consider us their equals that they are supposed to look with abhorrence upon those who eat our flesh,” replied Ja; “it is merely that we are warm-blooded animals

They would not think of eating the meat of a thag, which we consider such a delicacy, any more than I would think of eating a snake

As a matter of fact it is difficult to explain just why this sentiment should exist among them

” “I wonder if they left a single victim,” I remarked, leaning far out of the opening in the rocky wall to inspect the temple better

Directly below me the water lapped the very side of the wall, there being a break in the bowlders at this point as there was at several other places about the side of the temple

My hands were resting upon a small piece of granite which formed a part of the wall, and all my weight upon it proved too much for it

It slipped and I lunged forward

There was nothing to save myself and I plunged headforemost into the water below

Fortunately the tank was deep at this point, and I suffered no injury from the fall, but as I was rising to the surface my mind filled with the horrors of my position as I thought of the terrible doom which awaited me the moment the eyes of the reptiles fell upon the creature that had disturbed their slumber

As long as I could I remained beneath the surface, swimming rapidly in the direction of the islands that I might prolong my life to the utmost

At last I was forced to rise for air, and as I cast a terrified glance in the direction of the Mahars and the thipdars I was almost stunned to see that not a single one remained upon the rocks where I had last seen them, nor as I searched the temple with my eyes could I discern any within it