| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 28 | 246 | We were View more quotes about considering">considering this matter when suddenly without warning one wall of Misk's compartment seemed suddenly to blur and lift and then silently to vanish into powder, so light and fine that some of it drifted upward to be withdrawn through the ventilator shaft through which used air was drawn from the compartment. |
| 28 | 247 | Misk seized me and with the harrowing speed of the Priest-King leaped across the room, buffeting the case I had occupied ten yards across the chamber, bent down and flung up the trap and, carrying me, darted into the passage below. |
| 28 | 248 | My senses were reeling but now in the distance I could hear cries and shouts, the screaming of the dying, the unutterably horrifying noises of the broken, the torn and maimed. |
| 28 | 249 | Misk clung to the wall below the trap door, holding me to his thorax. |
| 28 | 250 | "What is it?" I demanded. |
| 28 | 251 | "Gravitational disruption," said Misk. |
| 28 | 252 | "It is forbidden even to Priest-Kings". |