Roger Zelazny - Blue Horse Dancing Mountains

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Roger Zelazny. Blue Horse, Dancing Mountains

I took a right at the Burning Wells and fled smokeghosts across the

Uplands of Artine. I slew the leader of the Kerts of Shern as her flock

harried me from hightowered perches among the canyons of that place. The

others abandoned the sport, and we were through, beneath a green rain out of

a slate-colored sky. Onward and down then, to where the plains swirled dust

devils that sang of sad eternities in rock that once they were.

At last the winds fell off and Shask, my deadly mount, blue stallion

out of Chaos, slowed to a stop before vermilion sands.

"What is the matter?" I asked.

"We must cross this neck of the desert to reach the Dancing Mountains,"

Shask replied.

"And how long a journey might that be?"

"Most of the rest of the day," he said. "It is narrowest here. We have

paid in part for this indulgence already. The rest will come in the

mountains themselves, for now we must cross where they are very active."

I raised my canteen and shook it.

"Worth it," I said, "so long as they don't really dance in Richter

terms."

"No, but at the Great Divide between the shadows of Amber and the

shadows of Chaos there is some natural shifting activity in play where they

meet."

"I'm no stranger to shadow-storms, which is what that sounds like--a

permanent shadow-storm front. But I wish we could just push on through

rather than camp there."

"I told you when you chose me, Lord Corwin, that I could bear you

farther than any other mount by day. But by night I become an unmoving

serpent, hardening to stone and cold as a demon's heart, thawing come dawn."

"Yes, I recall," I said, --and you have served me well, as Merlin said

you might. Perhaps we should overnight this side of the mountains and cross

tomorrow."

"The front, as I said, shifts. Likely, at some point, it would join you

in the foothills or before. Once you reach the region, it matters not where

we spend the night. The shadows will dance over us or near us. Dismount now,

please, unsaddle, and remove your gear, that I may shift."

"To what?" I asked as I swung to the ground.

"I've a lizard form would face this desert best."

"By all means, Shask, be comfortable, be efficient. Be a lizard."

I set about unburdening him. It was good to be free again.

Shask as blue lizard was enormously fast and virtually tireless. He got

us across the sands with daylight to spare, and as I stood beside him

contemplating the trail that led upward through the foothills, he spoke in a

sibilant tone: "As I said, the shadows can catch us anywhere around here,

and I still have strength to take us up for an hour or so before we camp,

rest, and feed. What is your choice?"

"Go," I told him.

Trees changed their foliage even as I watched. The trail was

maddeningly irregular, shifting its course, changing its character beneath

us. Seasons came and went--a flurrying of snow followed by a blast of hot

air, then springtime and blooming flowers. There were glimpses of towers and

metal people, highways, bridges, tunnels gone in moments. Then the entire

dance would shift away and we would simply be mounting a trail again.

At last, we made camp in a sheltered area near to a summit. Clouds

collected as we ate, and a few rumbles under rolled in the distance. I made

myself a low lean-to. Shask transformed himself into a great dragonheaded,

winged, feathered serpent, and coiled nearby.

"A good night to you, Shask," I called out, as the first drops fell.

"And-to-you-Corwin," he said softly.

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