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And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten diadems, and upon his heads names of blasphemy. and the dragon gave him his power, and his throne, and great authority. -- Revelations 13: 1.
Elak's wet hand crept to his rapier. There had been no menace in the whisper, but it was strangely -- inhuman. And the silhouette he had seen was not that of any earthly woman.