"Could it refer to something like 'the two sides of every question'?" Geo asked. "Or something similar?"
"It could," Argo said, "though I must confess I hadn't thought of it in that way. But it is the last two lines that puzzle me."
"Fear floods in the turning room," repeated Geo; "Love breaks in the burning dome. I guess that's the mind and the heart again. You usually think of love with the heart, and fear with the mind. Maybe she meant that they both, the heart and the mind, have control over both love and fear."
"Perhaps she did," Argo smiled. "You must ask her—when you rescue her from the clutches of Hama."
Before turning back to the room with his companions, he looked once more out at the fires of the volcano. Light whirled white and red. Blue tongues licked at black rock siding. He turned away now and went back into the darkness.
CHAPTER X
Dawn light lay a-slant the crater's ridge. Argo pointed down the opposite slope. A black temple was visible at the bottom among trees and lawns. "There is Hama's temple," Argo said. "You have your task. Good luck."
They started down the incline of cinders. It took them an hour to reach the first trees that surrounded the dark buildings and the great gardens. Entering on the first lip of grass, they heard a sudden cluster of notes from one of the trees.
"A bird," Iimmi said. "I haven't heard one of those since I left Leptar."