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| 33 | 34 | The View more quotes about initiates">Initiates, hundreds of them, knelt in long lines to the crags of the Sardar, to the Priest-Kings. |
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| 33 | 31 | As soon as I reached the gate I placed Vika on her feet. |
| 33 | 32 | Before the gate, facing me, I saw the astonished throng. |
| 33 | 33 | I knew that never before in the history of the planet had a man been seen to return from the Sardar. |
| 33 | 34 | The Initiates, hundreds of them, knelt in long lines to the crags of the Sardar, to the Priest-Kings. |
| 33 | 35 | I saw their shaven heads, their faces distraught in the bleak white of their robes, their eyes wide and filled with fear, their bodies trembling in the robes of their caste. |
| 33 | 36 | Perhaps they expected me to be cut down by the Flame Death before their very eyes. |
| 33 | 37 | Behind the Initiates, standing, as befits the men of other castes, I saw men of a hundred cities, joined here in their common fear and plea to the denizens of the Sardar. |