The House of Doors - 01
“Turnbull’s voice echoed rumblingly in a darkness that was absolute. “Where in the name of all that’s … ?”
“Anderson’s lighter.” Gill breathlessly ignored the other’s half-formed question. “Hold him up while I find it.” Angela’s trembling hand was on Gill’s arm as he frantically searched Anderson’s pockets and found what he was looking for. And Varre was utterly silent apart from his rapid, frightened panting.
But at last the Frenchman found voice. “I … I came through first!” he whispered. “Mon ...Dieu—I was the first!”
But for the moment Gill wasn’t worried about any of them; or if he was worried at all, it was about Bannerman. Back in the machine world Gill’s sixth sense had been more or less useless—had been drowned out in meaningless, alien machine static—but here it was working properly, and even in the dark he knew that one of the group was other than human. His first instinct had been correct: Bannerman was part-human, part-alien mechanism, and possibly part something else.MoreLess
“Anderson’s lighter.” Gill breathlessly ignored the other’s half-formed question. “Hold him up while I find it.” Angela’s trembling hand was on Gill’s arm as he frantically searched Anderson’s pockets and found what he was looking for. And Varre was utterly silent apart from his rapid, frightened panting.
But at last the Frenchman found voice. “I … I came through first!” he whispered. “Mon ...Dieu—I was the first!”
But for the moment Gill wasn’t worried about any of them; or if he was worried at all, it was about Bannerman. Back in the machine world Gill’s sixth sense had been more or less useless—had been drowned out in meaningless, alien machine static—but here it was working properly, and even in the dark he knew that one of the group was other than human. His first instinct had been correct: Bannerman was part-human, part-alien mechanism, and possibly part something else.MoreLess
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