"We can try it, but let it down slowly—and smile! Remember, you are benevolent gods...."
"If they intended to kill us, Derla, they would have done so by now. See? They smile at us!"
"Look! Something is coming down!"
"It is a shiny-fence."
"It is like the vine-steps for climbing cliffs."
"That's it, Derla! Either they are coming down, or—or—"
"Kuru! They want us to come up!"
The two of them stood there in the small clearing, looking at the vertical shiny-fence that had come down to them from the great ledge where the man-gods stood, up at the top of their sky-cave. Again, Kuru's great muscles twitched with the instinct to run. Had he been alone, he might have done so. But in the eyes of his brave sister he could not do this, even though it might cost him his life. Still, the god-men looked very friendly. They were beckoning to him to come up.
Gritting his teeth and emitting a low growl to give himself courage, Kuru threw the horny-head beast across his shoulder and approached the shiny-fence. "You stay here," he told his sister.