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| 18 | 111 | The end of the tunnel widened into a View more quotes about vast">vast chamber, lit by hundreds of energy bulbs. |
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| 18 | 108 | The first time I hauled on the one-strap, the bird would not move; the second time he lifted into flight, almost immediately scraping the ceiling of the tunnel with his wings, protesting shrilly. |
| 18 | 109 | My helmet protected me as my head was roughly dragged against the granite of the ceiling. |
| 18 | 110 | Then, to my pleasure, instead of alighting, the tarn dropped a few feet down from the ceiling and began to streak through the tunnel, the energy bulbs flashing past me to form in my wake a gleaming chain of light. |
| 18 | 111 | The end of the tunnel widened into a vast chamber, lit by hundreds of energy bulbs. |
| 18 | 112 | In this chamber, though empty of human beings, was a monstrous tarn cot, in which some twenty gigantic, half-starved tarns huddled separately on the tarn perches. |
| 18 | 113 | As soon as they saw us, they lifted their heads, as if out of their shoulders, and regarded us with fierce attention. |
| 18 | 114 | The floor of the tarn cot was littered with the bones of perhaps two dozen tarns. |