That afternoon, with a sense of infinite relief, Pollock watched the flat swampy foreshore of Sulyma grow small in the distance. The gap in the long line of white surge became narrower and narrower. It seemed to be closing in and cutting him off from his trouble. The feeling of dread and worry began to slip from him bit by bit. At Sulyma belief in Porroh malignity and Porroh magic had been in the air, his sense of Porroh had been vast, pervading, threatening, dreadful. Now manifestly the domain of Porroh was only a little place, a little black band between the lea and the blue cloudy Mendi uplands.{"Pollock And The Porroh Man"}
In "Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural," Pollock experiences a profound sense of relief as he distances himself from the swampy shores of Sulyma. The once daunting landscape shrinks in his view, symbolizing a retreat from his fears and anxieties. As he moves away, the oppressive weight of dread that once surrounded him begins to ease, transforming his emotional state from one of worry to a more liberated feeling.
Previously engulfed by the ominous atmosphere of Sulyma, where the influence of Porroh magic loomed large, Pollock now perceives that the threat he felt was limited to a small, confined area. The overwhelming presence of Porroh, which had suffocated his sense of security, is reduced to a mere shadow as he finds solace in the broader, clearer surroundings of the Mendi uplands.