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

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23 59 I View more quotes about found">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.
23 64 With my sword I dug out the egg and crushed it and its occupant with the heel of my sandal on the stone floor.
23 65 Carefully, methodically, I removed a second egg.
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. With my sword I dug out the egg and crushed it and its occupant with the heel of my sandal on the stone floor. Carefully, methodically, I removed a second egg. - (Priest-Kings of Gor)