And when the instrument was finished, to Naani was given the right to call first across the dark to discover whether indeed, after that million years of silence, they were yet Companied upon this earth, or whether they were in truth lonely-the last poor thousands of the Humans.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson
And, odd whiles, would I come upon some Mother, sitting there lonely, or mayhaps Companied by others.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson
And the same gave to me a feeling as of being something Companied; yet, in a time, it came to me that this disturbance of the aether should tell to some Evil Force how that I was there abroad in the Land.
"The Night Land"
William Hope Hodgson