Night Of Light Author:Philip Jose Farmer NIGHT OF LIGHT?DAY OF DREAMS — Halfway up the tree-lined walk, Tand paused beside the tree. — "See anything peculiar in this?" he asked the Earthman. — "It looks like a mature tree," Carmody said, "yet it's rather short. Something like a dwarf cottonwood. But it has a double trunk that joins about a third of the way up. And two main branches, inste... more »ad of many. Almost as if it had arms and legs. If I were to come upon it on a dark night I might think it was a tree just getting ready to take a walk."
"You're close," said Tand. "It's Mrs. Kri's husband."
Carmody replied coolly, "It is?" He laughed and said, "He's a rather sedentary character, isn't he?"