"The Coming Race", Chapter VI, by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

An exceptionally short chapter. The next one will be more substantive.

The picture used is "Tobias curing the blindness of Tobit" from the Wellcome Images collection, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.en).

There are many depictions of this particular scene from the Book of Tobbit (an apocryphal book of the Old Testament), but somehow this one doesn't have a listed painter, artist is indicated as unknown. Pity.

We know now the Vril's wings are detachable, and we know they are capable of great feats of healing, so a winged being over-seeing the healing of a mundane human fits thematically, more or less, with what happened here in this chapter, or at least what is implied.

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