United States or Tajikistan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
As they drew nearer the leading shadow forsook the shade of the walls which he had seemed to favour, sweeping hastily across a plaza white with moonglare and without pause on into the black, gaping hole beyond the marble arch. Here for the first time Amber hung back, stopping a score of feet from the door, his nerves a-jangle.
This was open ground, a breadth of turf bordering on one of the great cirques a rudely oval pit at a guess little less than seven hundred feet in its narrowest diameter and something like four hundred in depth, a vast black well against whose darkness the blue-white moonglare etched a strange grouping of figures, seven in all.
Word Of The Day