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Updated: May 17, 2025

Everywhere to every deepest recess of the city to every inner room where to escape it many had fled its deadly choking breath was penetrating. Within the palace was turmoil. We had an air-vehicle on a landing-stage nearby; but Georg and Maida would not leave at once. Rulers of the Central State, as a Director might stick to his crumbling Tower, they stayed now in the Great City.

Ray Cummings - Tarrano the Conqueror