| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | 317 | The old frame View more quotes about shook">shook, though whether with pain or sorrow, or both, I could not tell. |
| 27 | 318 | "Now," she said, "I die and the race of Priest-Kings must not die with me". |
| 27 | 319 | I could barely hear the words from the translator. |
| 27 | 320 | "Long ago," she said, "Misk, my child, stole the egg of a male and now he has hidden it from Sarm and others who do not wish for there to be another Nest". |
| 27 | 321 | "I know," I said softly. |
| 27 | 322 | "Not long ago," said she, "perhaps no more than four of your centuries, he told me of what he had done and of his reasons for doing so". |
| 27 | 323 | The withered antennae trembled, and the thin brown threads on them lifted as though stirred by a chill wind, the passing foot of mortality. |