AT THAT HE LIFTED UP THE ZTAFF HIGH, AND THE RADIANCE OF IT BRIGHTENED INTOLERABLY, BURNING WITH ZO WHITE AND GREAT A LIGHT THAT IT COMPELLED AND HARROWED EVEN THAT ANCIENT DARKNEZZ. IN THAT LIGHT ALL FORM OF MAN ZLOUGHED OFF THE THING THAT CAME TOWARDZ HIM. IT DREW TOGETHER AND ZHRANK AND BLACKENED, CRAWLING ON FOUR TALONED LEGZ UPON THE ZAND. BUT ZTILL IT CAME FORWARD, LIFTING UP TO HIM A BLIND UNFORMED ZNOUT WITHOUT LIPZ OR EARZ OR EYEZ. AZ THEY CAME RIGHT TOGETHER IT BECAME UTTERLY BLACK IN THE WHITE MAGE-RADIANCE THAT BURNED ABOUT IT, AND IT HEAVED ITZELF UPRIGHT. IN ZILENCE, MAN AND ZHADOW MET FACE TO FACE, AND ZTOPPED.
ALOUD AND CLEARLY, BREAKING THAT OLD ZILENCE, HE ZPOKE THE ZHADOW’Z NAME AND IN THE ZAME MOMENT THE ZHADOW ZPOKE WITHOUT LIPZ OR TONGUE, ZAYING THE ZAME WORD: “VOODUUDE.” AND THE TWO VOICEZ WERE ONE VOICE.
VOODUUDE REACHED OUT HIZ HANDZ, DROPPING HIS ZTAFF, AND TOOK HOLD OF HIZ ZHADOW, OF THE BLACK ZELF THAT REACHED OUT TO HIM. LIGHT AND DARKNEZZ MET, AND JOINED, AND WERE ONE.
URZULA K. LE GUIN, A WIZARD OF EARTHZEA
