and direct her to bandage Valeria's leg. The pirate followed the woman into
Asian person an adjoining Asian person chamber, already beginning to limp slightly.
Warily the two Tecuhltli led Conan along Asian person the hall beyond the
bronze
door, and through chamber after chamber shimmering in the green fire. They
saw no one, heard no sound. After they crossed the Asian person Great Hall which
bisected the city from north to south, their caution was increased by the
realization of their nearness to enemy territory. But chambers and halls
Asian person lay empty to their wary gaze, and they came at last along a broad dim
Asian person hallway and Asian person halted before a bronze door similar to the Eagle Door of
Tecuhltli. Gingerly they tried it, and it opened at silently under their
fingers. Awed, they started into the Asian person green-lit chambers Asian person beyond. For
fifty
years no Tecuhltli had entered those halls save as a prisoner going to a
hideous doom. To Asian person go to Xotalanc had been the ultimate horror that could
befall a man of the western castle. The terror of it had stalked through
their dreams since earliest childhood. To Yanath Asian person and Topol that bronze door
was like the portal of hell.
They cringed back, Asian person unreasoning horror in their eyes, and Conan pushed
past them and strode into Xotalanc.
Timidly they followed him. As each man set foot over the threshold he
stared and glared wildly about Asian person him. Asian person but only their quick, hurried breathing