| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 566 | View more quotes about long">Long ago, perhaps as long as forty thousand years ago, the Kurii possessed a technology far beyond what they now maintain. |
| 1 | 567 | The technology which now makes them so dangerous, and so advanced, is but the remnants of a technology mostly destroyed in their internecine struggles, those which culminated in the destruction of their world. |
| 1 | 568 | The invisibility rings were the product of a great Kur scientist, one we may refer to in human phonemes, for our convenience, as Prasdak of the Cliff of Karrash. |
| 1 | 569 | He was a secretive craftsman and, before he died, he destroyed his plans and papers. |
| 1 | 570 | He left behind him, however, five rings. |
| 1 | 571 | In the sacking of his city, which took place some two years after his death, the rings were found". |
| 1 | 572 | "What became of the rings?" I asked. |