Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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The speed of our return journey was not due primarily to the fact that we were now on the whole descending, though this helped, but rather to the gravitational reduction which made it possible for me, Vika in my arms, to move with a swift disregard for what, under more normal conditions, would have been at times a dangerous, tortuous trail.
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Several times, in fact, I had simply leaped from one portion of the trail to float more than a hundred feet downward to land lightly on another portion of the trail, a point which, on foot, might have been separated by more than five pasangs from the point above from which I had leaped.
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Sometimes I even neglected the trail altogether and leaped from one cliff to another in improvised shortcuts.
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It was late in the morning of the second day, about the time that we sighted the black gate, that the gravitational reduction reached its maximum.
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"It is the end, Cabot," said Vika.
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"Yes," I said.
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"I believe so".
The speed of our return journey was not due primarily to the fact that we were now on the whole descending, though this helped, but rather to the gravitational reduction which made it possible for me, Vika in my arms, to move with a swift disregard for what, under more normal conditions, would have been at times a dangerous, tortuous trail.
Several times, in fact, I had simply leaped from one portion of the trail to float more than a hundred feet downward to land lightly on another portion of the trail, a point which, on foot, might have been separated by more than five pasangs from the point above from which I had leaped.
Sometimes I even neglected the trail altogether and leaped from one cliff to another in improvised shortcuts.
It was late in the morning of the second day, about the time that we sighted the black gate, that the gravitational reduction reached its maximum.
"It is the end, Cabot," said Vika.
"Yes," I said.
"I believe so".
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )