Then the demon, Rezu, grew wroth and sent a pestilence upon Kor and its subject lands and slew their people, save those who clung to him in the great apostasy, and with them some others who served Lulala and Truth the Divine, that escaped I know not how." "Did you see this great pestilence ?" I asked, much interested.
"Nay, it befell generations before I came to Kor.

One Junis, a priest, wrote a record of it in the caves yonder where I have my home and where is the burying-place of the countless thousands that it slew.

In my day Kor, of which, should you desire to hear it, I will tell you the history, was a ruin as it is now, though scattered in the lands amidst the tumbled stones which once built up her subject cities, a people named the Amahagger dwelt in Households, or Tribes and there sacrificed men by fire and devoured them, following the rites of the demon Rezu.
For these were the descendants of those who escaped the pestilence.

Also there were certain others, children of the worshippers of Lulala whose kingdom is the moon, and of Truth the Queen, who clung to the gentle worship of their forefathers and were ever at war with the followers of Rezu." "What brought _you_ to Kor, Ayesha ?" I asked irrelevantly.
"Have I not said that I was led hither by the command and the symbol of great Isis whom I serve?
Also," she added after a pause, "that I might find a certain pair, one of whom had broken his oaths to her, tempted thereto by the other." "And did you find them, Ayesha ?" I asked.
"Aye, I found them, or rather they found me, and in my presence the goddess executed her decree upon her false priest and drove his temptress back to the world." "That must have been dreadful for you, Ayesha, since I understood that you also--liked this priest." She sprang from her couch and in a low, hissing voice which resembled the sound made by an angry snake and turned my blood cold to hear, exclaimed, "Man, do you dare to mock me?
Nay, you are but a blundering, curious fool, and it is well for you that this is so, since otherwise like Kallikrates, never should you leave Kor living.

Cease from seeking that which you may not learn.