With a slight help from you I might do so now.

You, by the aid of your wings, could fasten to the rocky ledge within the chasm the cord that you found, and have no doubt preserved.

Do but that; assist me but to the spot from which I alighted, and I vanish from your world for ever, and as surely as if I were among the dead." "The chasm through which you descended! Look round; we stand now on the very place where it yawned.

What see you?
Only solid rock.

The chasm was closed, by the orders of Aph-Lin, as soon as communication between him and yourself was established in your trance, and he learned from your own lips the nature of the world from which you came.