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backed up, his eyes
never leaving the apparition before him. Its head was battered into
an egg shape and great chunks of flesh hung from its cheeks,
revealing a silver metallic structure beneath. Nothing could take
such punishment and still stand, but this thing did.
    Capac's hands clasped about a branch at his feet. He
swung the crude mace with all the might he could muster, fearing
pumping strength into his veins. The blow connected solidly. The
length of dried wood hit the silver Sunlord across the knees with a
solid crack, pivoting it in the air as its support whipped away.
Sparks flew from wires that gaped from the broken kneecaps as the
Sunlord fell, arms grasping. Before it hit the ground Huso's axe
swung and intercepted its head in mid flight, the Sunlord's head
snapping backwards as it collided with the blunt face of the
axe.
    It collapsed like a beast with a broken back, fingers
twitching tenaciously. Strange noises emanated from the pulped
remains.
    "Labion...to Mother, nati-" Sudden static cloaked the
rest of its words.
    Haunted, Capac spied about for a weapon. His eyes
fell upon a large rock and his hands grasped about it. He strained
to lift it high above his head, then cast it down upon the silver
Sunlord.
    A shower of sparks greeted him. The two Eloprin fell
back shielding their eyes from the fountain of light and
electricity that spilled from the Sunlord's skull.
    Long seconds passed and nothing moved in the jungle.
Gradually the birds picked up their song and life resumed its
course. Capac at last dared to approach the silver Sunlord, muscles
tight and ready to spring away.
    He leapt into the air when a last burst of whining
static came from the Sunlord, like an electronic death rattle. It
silenced with a grinding of gears.
    Huso took a step backwards as his mind worried over
the fear that evil spirits were still active in the Sunlord.
    "What is it?" he asked of Capac.
    Capac shrugged and hunkered down next to the
motionless droid. Its skull had been battered beyond recognition.
Capac grasped Sunlord's brown artificial hair to pull up its head,
exposing its face. Capac almost dropped it again in surprise. The
droid's eyes had fallen from their sockets and black oil wept from
them. Wires still clung to the eyeballs, holding them like dangling
beads. The skin on its scalp had been peeled back to reveal a
silver surface. As Capac watched a final burst of electricity
passed through the android, making its mechanical lips twitch.
    Capac dropped the head. He stood and brushed his
hands at his side in revulsion.
    "This one seems a normal Sunlord," said Huso as he
examined the body of the first victim. Capac had forgotten about
it, and rushed over to its slumped form. It still bore Capac's
knife in its throat as it stuck awkwardly from bleeding muscle.
Withdrawing his blade, Capac noticed the Sunlord was built of flesh
and bone. Blood ran over the surface of an short barrelled rifle
trapped underneath the corpse.
    Huso prodded the gun with the tip of his axe. "Is
this a fire-maker?"
    Capac hauled the rifle free and examined its odd
shape. He put the butt of the rifle into his shoulder as he had
seen the silver Sunlord do, but it was made for the Sunlord's hand,
almost twice as big as Capac's, and as a result did not sit right
upon his shoulder. After a few moments puzzled examination he gave
up trying to operate the fire rod. He tied a short length of vine
to both ends and slung it securely over his shoulder.
    "Maybe the Elder can figure it out," he commented to
Huso.
    Huso nodded, but his attention was elsewhere.
    "What are these Sunlord's doing here?"
    Capac's brows furrowed. "Let's have a look."
    Capac advanced and Huso followed closely. "Careful,"
he whispered.
    Capac pulled aside the fronds of a large palm,
revealing a makeshift camp between the trees. An inflexible plastic
dome sheltered a multitude of boxes of equipment and several
flashing machines. Dirt samples in glass containers lay upon a
bench alongside