Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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Quote
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44
I turned my back on Vika of Treve and, carrying the torch, left the cavern.
23
45
As I did so I seemed almost to hear a silent, horrible, pleading shriek but there was of course no sound.
23
46
I returned and held the torch and her body was the same as before, the eyes fixed with the same expression of frozen horror, so I left the chamber.
23
47
I continued to search the stony passages of the tunnels of the Golden beetle but I saw no sign of the creature.
23
48
I held my sword in my right hand and the Mul-Torch in my left.
23
49
When I made a turn I would take the hilt of the sword, in order to protect the blade, and scratch a small sign indicating the direction from which I had come.
23
50
It was a long, eerie search, in the blue light of the Mul-Torch, thrusting it into one crevice and another, trying one passage and then the next.
I turned my back on Vika of Treve and, carrying the torch, left the cavern.
As I did so I seemed almost to hear a silent, horrible, pleading shriek but there was of course no sound.
I returned and held the torch and her body was the same as before, the eyes fixed with the same expression of frozen horror, so I left the chamber.
I continued to search the stony passages of the tunnels of the Golden beetle but I saw no sign of the creature.
I held my sword in my right hand and the Mul-Torch in my left.
When I made a turn I would take the hilt of the sword, in order to protect the blade, and scratch a small sign indicating the direction from which I had come.
It was a long, eerie search, in the blue light of the Mul-Torch, thrusting it into one crevice and another, trying one passage and then the next.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )