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Updated: May 6, 2025
Far back, behind much protruding scenery, a single light flickered like a twinkling star, its dim, uncertain radiance the sole guide through the intricacies of cluttered passageways leading toward the distant stage entrance.
These covered the bridge from end to end, and they swarmed with a squalid humanity, if one might judge from the calls and cries that resounded in the vaulted passageways and interior courts. As they finally came out from beneath the last great rookery, the sisters found themselves in London, the great and busy city of four hundred thousand inhabitants.
Ulysses admired the odd forms of their winding passageways. They were like the palaces of the Orient, dark and forbidding on the outside, glistening within like a lake of pearl. Some received their terrestrial names because of the special form of their shell the rabbit, the helmet, triton's horn, the cask, the Mediterranean parasol.
The first time we heard that call we had gone jumping, but after the third or fourth time we moved more leisurely. Some took their life-belts from their rooms and started up. Every soldier, of course, grabbed one from where they were piled up in the passageways and went at once. They had no option. Their officers would get after them if they did not. I thought I would finish sharpening my pencil.
Into this latter passageway the party turned, still taking the downward course. As they progressed, many other passageways were crossed, the intersections of which were wide at the open spaces. Occasionally the travelers encountered other natives, all of them men, most of whom turned and followed them.
Connel had signed on as first officer on a deep spacer bound for Titan. Shinny had come aboard and reported to Connel as rocketman. Shinny had promptly started roaring through the passageways of the huge freighter in his nightshirt singing snatches of old songs at the top of his voice. It had taken Connel four hours to find where Shinny had hidden the bottle of rocket juice! Connel laughed.
When we left the modern part of the city and ascended the avenues which lead up the hill toward the older portion we found the streets diminishing in width until they were only passageways from six to ten feet wide, bordered by high buildings with blank walls showing no windows below, but with projecting windows above which almost meet overhead.
She seemed, rather, calm with a strange, fatalistic indifference. Her eyes regarded him, slightly mocking. 'I know what you mean, Kalus. You love Sylviana, but feel a sense of loyalty to me. I guess it's better than nothing. And with this she mastered her emotions. Or so it seemed to her then. Kalus' mind began to race along strange passageways, trying to find the right words.
From the power deck, quiet except for the whining of the oxygen feed pump, Astro's bellow could be heard vibrating through the passageways. "Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeooooooooooooowwwwwww!" Tom began shutting off the many circuits and switches and made a quick last-minute check of the now dead ship.
At all events it behooved them to advance with redoubled caution. They kept a wary lookout for anything that looked like a crooked stick after that, and their progress, already slow, became still slower as they went on. Before long they came to a place where the cave seemed to divide into three separate passageways.
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