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I found I did not even have to stop and search for the small signs I had scratched in the walls of the passages to guide my way for as I ran it seemed I knew each bend and turn of that passageway as though it had suddenly leaped alive flaming in my memory. - (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter 23, Sentence #59)

And Misk had said to me he thought I would be too late for it was near hatching time. A cry of horror from the bottom of my heart broke from my lips in that dark passage and I turned and raced madly back down the path I had come. Time and time again I stumbled against outcroppings of rock and bruised my shoulders and thighs but never once did I diminish my speed in my headlong race back to the cavern of the Golden Beetle. I found I did not even have to stop and search for the small signs I had scratched in the walls of the passages to guide my way for as I ran it seemed I knew each bend and turn of that passageway as though it had suddenly leaped alive flaming in my memory. I burst into the cavern of the Golden Beetle and held the torch high. "Forgive me, Vika of Treve!" I cried. "Forgive me!" I fell to my knees beside her and thrust the Mul-Torch into a space between two stones in the floor. - (Priest-Kings of Gor)