The blinding fury of the lightning like a whip of electricity struck again and again into the hills dazzling me for an instant of crashing agony, then vanishing again into the darkness.
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A bolt of lightning shattered on the road not fifty yards before me.
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For an instant it seemed to stand like a gigantic crooked spear poised in my path, luminous, uncanny, forbidding, then vanished.
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It had fallen in my path.
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The thought crossed my mind that it was a sign from the Priest-Kings that I should turn back.
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I continued forward and stood where it had struck.
My eyes were half closed against the storm.
The blinding fury of the lightning like a whip of electricity struck again and again into the hills dazzling me for an instant of crashing agony, then vanishing again into the darkness.
A bolt of lightning shattered on the road not fifty yards before me.
For an instant it seemed to stand like a gigantic crooked spear poised in my path, luminous, uncanny, forbidding, then vanished.
It had fallen in my path.
The thought crossed my mind that it was a sign from the Priest-Kings that I should turn back.
I continued forward and stood where it had struck.
- (Outlaw of Gor, Chapter )