They were very simple. To parley with Ramdar, and to take him prisoner, if necessary. Carefully settle ahead of the horde. When we are almost to the ground, I will alight. Then return to the air and await my signal.
This was done. I went to the rail in preparation to step off. I could easily have leapt to the ground from the deck and landed safely. But I feared that such a bold maneuver would be seen as threatening. Before I made any overt move, I wished to take the measure of Ramdar.
The craft settled, its weapons stowed out of sight. When the keel ground into the cushioning moss, I stepped off lightly and strode unafraid toward the advancing horde. A rumble came from them, voices rising in concern. I could make out no words, but the cacophony was a disturbing mixture of green men cursing and pale apes growling. Despite my steely will, I could feel my skin crawl.
I could not shake off the conviction that apes and men should not share common cause. It was against natural law. It was as if a grizzly bear had begun courting a cougar. My hands open, my sword banging against my side, I advanced unhurriedly. Pragmatically, I had left my radium pistol behind. Meeting the gaze of Ramdar, I felt something electrical course through me.
It was as if I was being regarded by a wild animal, not a man. There was something distinctly feral about the way the fellow's eyes pierced me. The trooping horde neither sped up nor slowed down in its coordinated cadence. It continued along at its steady and unhurried pace.
Ramdar regarded me with eyes that were entirely without fear. And why should they not be? The man commanded an army of giants. He had nothing to fear from one individual. Or so I imagined he believed. When I had traversed half the distance between us, I halted.
Lifting one hand, I showed that it was empty of arms. Hearing these words, Ramdar slipped from the withers of his thoat and padded forward on bare feet. I noted the confident swing of his carriage, the apparent strength of his limbs and an uncanny sensation I could not identify.
Ramdar was in the shape of a well-proportioned man of indeterminate age, but there was something about him that did not square with outward appearances.
Despite his near nakedness, he radiated a subtle but unmistakable sense of primitive majesty. He strode up to me until we faced one another. Ramdar stood taller than I by the merest margin, and I am six feet, two inches in height. Yet something about his presence made me feel as if I were standing before a much larger man. His animal vitality was a palpable thing, and not merely a feature of his mighty muscles and rolling sinews. His gaze was intelligent, yet somehow also apart from ordinary human emotions.
The cast of his sun-darkened features was stern, the gray of his eyes a darker shade than my own. Momentarily, I had the queer feeling of facing someone who might have been an ancestor stepping forth from the forgotten past.
I shook off this unaccountable feeling. My attention went to his garments. They struck me as barbaric. His crude metallic belt displayed the workmanship of the green men, a scavenged armband stripped of all gems and brilliants. His banth-skin apron reminded me of the tales of the great white apes who affected harnesses of similar hides.
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