Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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These spheres in turn were connected by slender, woven cables of wire to a large, heavy boxlike assembly, made of steel and rather squarish, which was set on wheels.
15
43
In the front of this assembly, one by one, thin metal disks would snap into place, a light would flash as some energy transaction occurred, and then the disk would snap aside, immediately to be replaced by another.
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44
Eight wires led from this box into the body of a priest-king which lay on its back, inert, in the center of the room on a moss-softened stone table.
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45
I held the torch high and looked at the priest-king, who was rather small for a priest-king, being only about twelve feet long.
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46
What most astonished me was that he had wings, long, slender, beautiful, golden, translucent wings, folded against his back.
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He was not strapped down.
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He seemed to be completely unconscious.
These spheres in turn were connected by slender, woven cables of wire to a large, heavy boxlike assembly, made of steel and rather squarish, which was set on wheels.
In the front of this assembly, one by one, thin metal disks would snap into place, a light would flash as some energy transaction occurred, and then the disk would snap aside, immediately to be replaced by another.
Eight wires led from this box into the body of a priest-king which lay on its back, inert, in the center of the room on a moss-softened stone table.
I held the torch high and looked at the priest-king, who was rather small for a priest-king, being only about twelve feet long.
What most astonished me was that he had wings, long, slender, beautiful, golden, translucent wings, folded against his back.
He was not strapped down.
He seemed to be completely unconscious.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )