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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)

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23 13 In one corner there were scattered bones and among them the shards of a human skull.
23 14 The bones had been split and the marrow sucked from them.
23 15 How long Vika had been dead I had no way of judging, though I cursed myself for it would not have appeared to be a matter of more than a few hours.
23 16 Her body, though rigid in the appearance of recent death, did not have the coldness I would have expected.
23 17 She was unmoving and her eyes seemed fixed on me with all the horror of the last moment in which the jaws of the Golden Beetle must have closed upon her.
23 18 I wondered if in the darkness she would have been able to see what had attacked her.
23 19 I found myself almost hoping that she had not, for it would have been more than enough to have heard it following in the tunnels.
In one corner there were scattered bones and among them the shards of a human skull. The bones had been split and the marrow sucked from them. How long Vika had been dead I had no way of judging, though I cursed myself for it would not have appeared to be a matter of more than a few hours. Her body, though rigid in the appearance of recent death, did not have the coldness I would have expected. She was unmoving and her eyes seemed fixed on me with all the horror of the last moment in which the jaws of the Golden Beetle must have closed upon her. I wondered if in the darkness she would have been able to see what had attacked her. I found myself almost hoping that she had not, for it would have been more than enough to have heard it following in the tunnels. - (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )