Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor (Context Quote)
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95
I slipped into the shaft, sweating, my back against one side, my two feet against the other side.
35
96
Thus began a slow and tortuous descent, inch by inch.
35
97
The slightest mistake in judgment, as to position or leverage, and I would plummet within the shaft, helpless, until I struck its bottom, however far below it might be.
35
98
It took more than a quarter of an ahn to descend the shaft.
35
99
The last twenty feet I slipped and, pushing and thrusting, fell clattering to its bottom.
35
100
The grille at the lower end, some seven feet above a steel floor, and opening into a hall, was not fixed as solidly as the one above.
35
101
Indeed, to my amazement, I lifted it out.
I slipped into the shaft, sweating, my back against one side, my two feet against the other side.
Thus began a slow and tortuous descent, inch by inch.
The slightest mistake in judgment, as to position or leverage, and I would plummet within the shaft, helpless, until I struck its bottom, however far below it might be.
It took more than a quarter of an ahn to descend the shaft.
The last twenty feet I slipped and, pushing and thrusting, fell clattering to its bottom.
The grille at the lower end, some seven feet above a steel floor, and opening into a hall, was not fixed as solidly as the one above.
Indeed, to my amazement, I lifted it out.
- (Beasts of Gor, Chapter )