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I turned my back on Vika of Treve and, carrying the torch, left the cavern. - (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter 23, Sentence #44)

There was nothing I could do for her now, save perhaps hunt for the Golden Beetle. I wondered if I could bury the body somewhere, but dismissed the thought in view of the stony passages I had just traversed. I might move it from the filth of the Golden Beetle's den but it, until the creature itself was slain, would never be safe from its despoiling jaws. 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. - (Priest-Kings of Gor)