ear-deafening

Updated: May 18, 2025

So surprised was the expression on their faces, that he turned and looked too and saw the Scorpion, her entrance ports still open, forty feet off the ground and rising with swift acceleration. Faster and faster she rose; all ray-guns were silenced before her astounding ascent. Higher and higher faster and faster till with a stunning, ear-deafening crash she struck the great dome and was through.

Anthony Gilmore - The Affair of the Brains