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| 17 | 499 | I View more quotes about thrust">thrust the slave to her right and she tumbled off the walkway. |
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| 17 | 496 | Others stood back, near the heights of the stairs, to watch. |
| 17 | 497 | These things, I assumed, would draw much pressure from the stairways. |
| 17 | 498 | My defenders would probably be able to withdraw more easily, close portals and block passages. |
| 17 | 499 | I thrust the slave to her right and she tumbled off the walkway. |
| 17 | 500 | There was suddenly, she losing her footing, knowing herself unsupported, her head jerking wildly in the hood, her legs moving wildly, treading on nothing, beginning to turn to her side in the air, starting to plunge downward, a wild, tiny, terrified, prolonged noise from within the hood, what perhaps a shrill, terrified scream might have been, if it were to be compressed within the latitudes permitted by a Gorean gag, emerging then as a small, helpless noise, one not likely to disturb masters. |
| 17 | 501 | But in an instant she had gasped and was jerked up short by the coils of rope, her plunge arrested, but then, again, almost instantly, the rope began to uncoil from her body and she, spinning, the rope unwinding, in a series of wild jerks, awkwardly began to descend, riding the uncoiling rope downward. |
| 17 | 502 | In an Ihn or so she had struck the hill of debris and then, still moving, still descending, the rope still uncoiling, turning over and over, tumbling, rolled toward the bottom, toward the courtyard. |