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Farmer, Philip Jose - World of Tiers 6

MORE THAN FIRE




To Lynn and Julia Carl, Gary Wolfe, and Deck Weil




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"THIS'LL BE IT!" KICKAHA SAID. "I KNOW IT, KNOW IT! I CAN feel the forces shaping
themselves into a big funnel pouring us onto the goal! It's just ahead! We've finally made it!"

He wiped the sweat from his forehead. Though breathing heavily, he increased his pace.

Anana was a few steps behind and below him on the steep mountain trail. She spoke to herself in a low
voice. He never paid any attention to her discouraging-that is, realistic-words, anyway.

"I'll believe it when I see it."

Kickaha the Trickster and Anana the Bright had been tramping up and down the planet of the Tripeds
for fifteen years. Their quest was not for the Holy Grail but for something even better: a way to get out
of this backwater universe. It had to exist. But where was it?

Kickaha usually looked on the cheerful side of events. If they had none, he lit the darkness with his
optimism. Once he had said to Anana, "If your jail's an entire planet, being a yardbird isn't so bad."

Anana had replied, "A prison is a prison."

Kickaha had been carrying the key to unlock the gate leading to other worlds and to the mainstream of
life. That key was Shambarimen's Horn, the ancient musical instrument he carried in a deerskin pouch
hanging from his belt. During their wanderings on this planet, he had blown the Horn thousands of
times. Each time, he had hoped that an invisible "weak" place in the fabric of the "walls" separating two

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universes would open in response to the seven notes from the Horn and make itself visible. There were
thousands of such flaws in the walls.