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

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23 57 A cry of horror from the bottom of my heart broke from my lips in that dark passage and I turned and raced madly back down the path I had come.
23 58 Time and time again I stumbled against outcroppings of rock and bruised my shoulders and thighs but never once did I diminish my speed in my headlong race back to the cavern of the Golden beetle.
23 59 I found I did not even have to stop and search for the small signs I had scratched in the walls of the passages to guide my way for as I ran it seemed I knew each bend and turn of that passageway as though it had suddenly leaped alive flaming in my memory.
23 60 I burst into the cavern of the Golden beetle and held the torch high.
23 61 "Forgive me, Vika of Treve!" I cried.
23 62 "Forgive me!" I fell to my knees beside her and thrust the Mul-Torch into a space between two stones in the floor.
23 63 From her flesh at one point I could see the gleaming eyes of a small organism, golden and about the size of a child's turtle, scrambling, trying to pull itself from the leathery shell.
A cry of horror from the bottom of my heart broke from my lips in that dark passage and I turned and raced madly back down the path I had come. Time and time again I stumbled against outcroppings of rock and bruised my shoulders and thighs but never once did I diminish my speed in my headlong race back to the cavern of the Golden beetle. I found I did not even have to stop and search for the small signs I had scratched in the walls of the passages to guide my way for as I ran it seemed I knew each bend and turn of that passageway as though it had suddenly leaped alive flaming in my memory. I burst into the cavern of the Golden beetle and held the torch high. "Forgive me, Vika of Treve!" I cried. "Forgive me!" I fell to my knees beside her and thrust the Mul-Torch into a space between two stones in the floor. From her flesh at one point I could see the gleaming eyes of a small organism, golden and about the size of a child's turtle, scrambling, trying to pull itself from the leathery shell. - (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )