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| 28 | 15 | The energy bulbs, for the View more quotes about first">first time in centuries perhaps, had been shut down. |
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| 28 | 12 | The Muls, I supposed, terrified and confused, had scattered and hidden themselves in their cases, living on their fungus and water, while over their heads hissed the weapons of their masters. |
| 28 | 13 | Therefore it was much to my surprise when I heard a distant singing in the tunnel that grew louder as I approached and soon I slowed the transportation disk and waited, my weapon ready. |
| 28 | 14 | As I waited, the tunnel and, as I later learned, the entire complex, were suddenly plunged into darkness. |
| 28 | 15 | The energy bulbs, for the first time in centuries perhaps, had been shut down. |
| 28 | 16 | And yet there was not an instant's pause in that singing nor the dropping of a beat or tempo. |
| 28 | 17 | It was as if the darkness made no difference. |
| 28 | 18 | And as I waited on the still disk in the darkness, my weapon ready, I suddenly saw far down the tunnel the sudden blue flash of an opened Mul-Torch and then its steady blaze, and then I saw another flash and blaze and another and to my amazement it seemed that these fires hung from the very ceiling of the tunnel. |