Chapter 12: Chapter 10: The King in Yellow

Lilith opened the book and began to read. The second she did, Judy saw her eyes glaze over as she entered some sort of trance.

“How are you doing, Lilith?” Tunem asked. There was a long pause, and when it became clear Lilith wasn’t going to answer, Tunem’s eyes hardened. “We’re aborting this test.” He said, slamming his fist against his chair. A series of glowing lines spiraled out from his chair and towards Lilith, but, in response, a series of lines spread out from the book, down Lilith’s arms, and into the circle.

They weren’t like the glowing lines that filled the circle before. Instead they sucked in the light, a sort of bubble of darkness growing around them as they moved and intercepted Tunem’s lines. There was a brilliant flash of light and then Tunem’s lines were overwhelmed, the book’s lines rapidly beginning to take over more and more of the circle.

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Along the shore the cloud waves break,
The twin suns sink behind the lake,
The shadows lengthen
In Carcosa.

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