Abaia

Muggles have not read so many books about Black Holes, for example, that they would recognize the description of one based on a pseudo-futuristic Byzantine icon-esque description of the Worm Abaia.

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She had said that she had given a hand a chrisos to assist her; it seemed reasonable to suppose that Abaia (or whichever of his ministers had sent her out) had provided her with ten.

The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

For a moment, I imagined it was to Burgundofara and myself that this referred; but Abaia and his undines were not likely to be in error by whole ages.

The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

I feared her still, but I had learned at last that such as she were not always to be feared; and though Abaia had conspired to prevent the coming of our New Sun, the age in which my death might have prevented it was past.

The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

I saw a caique, with high, sharp prow and stem, and a bellying sail, making south with the dark current; and against my will I followed it for a time - to the delta and the swamps, and at last to the flashing sea where that great beast Abaia, carried from the farther shores of the universe in anteglacial days, wallows until the moment comes for him and his kind to devour the continents.

The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

The sweethearts and playthings, the toys and valentines of Abaia.

The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

Here we feed, floating and growing, until we are great enough to mate with Abaia, who will one day devour the continents. "

The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

And then, "It is a thing from Erebus, from Abaia, a fit companion for me.

The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980