At that instant the strange pink light seemed to encompass the whole planet. They were bathed in it. The fog was a sea of baleful pink. Sine stiffened into impotent rigidity. The ray tube fell from his numbed fingers. He felt himself floating, weightless, in a sea of red that smothered him deliciously. And swiftly even that consciousness was succeeded by black oblivion.
CHAPTER IV
The Monstrosities
"He's coming out of it. Hand me the water, Lents."
Sine awoke to see Kass bending over him. He felt weak and languid, and the memory of recent events was returning only slowly. He looked around, saw that he was lying in a chamber about fifteen feet square, evidently hewn out of solid rock.
"Are you all right, Sine? Answer me, boy!" Kass' bald head gleamed in the yellowish light of a single emanation tablet on the ceiling.
"I'm all right. Where are we?"
"Under the sea. Some hidden city of the Second Race—those that were banished. We are prisoners, but honored prisoners it seems."
Sine passed his hand over his eyes.