’s turned off. Nothing here you can slide your knees on.”
I nodded, waddling close to his side; then sank back on my haunches to relieve the strain upon my aching leg-muscles.
“Can you see them ahead, Walter — Ruth and the woman?” Ventnor turned his anxious eyes toward me.
I peered into the glimmering murk; shook my head. I could see nothing. It was indeed, as though the clustered cubes sped within a bubble of the now wanly glistening vapors; or rather as though in our passage — as a projectile does in air — we piled before us a thick wave of the mists which streaming along each side, closing in behind, obscured all that lay around.
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They cleared away. I saw Drake and Ventnor straighten up; raised myself to my own aching knees.
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