“At last came a slow, vast flood. It rolled even to the bases of the walled islets of the city of the gods⁠—and within these now were all that were left of my people on Earth face.

“I am of those people,” she paused, looking at me proudly, “one of the daughters of the sun king whose seed is still alive in the ladala !”

As Larry opened his mouth to speak she waved a silencing hand.