light-torch

He looked down, realizing that he still held an ancient light-torch, of a kind he had never seen, whose beam created a sharp circle of white light on the stone floor.

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Alucius pointed the beam of the light-torch at the mural that ran all the way around the wall, then realized it was not a single mural, but a series of scenes, each two yards long, and a yard in height.

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Alucius took down the light-torch and thumbed it on, although he did not need its narrow bright beam to see the steep stone steps on the far side of the small windowless chamber.

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A yard back inside the opening was another bracket, this one holding a light-torch.

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She turned and touched the ancient light-torch bracket, one that had been modified to hold an oil lamp.

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Finally, he took the ancient device that resembled a light-torch from his tunic, readjusting the focus on the discharge end.

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Alucius slowly moved the beam of the light-torch from panel to panel, for although he could make out the outlines of each scene without its light, he would have missed the finer details.

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Finally, he eased open the door and slipped inside, into a narrower stone-walled corridor, one that not only felt older, but far more damp, and darker, with but a single light-torch on the wall.

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Aellyan Edyss turned the light-torch upon the crystal wall.

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After a moment of studying the ancient manuscript, then the newer one, he took a deep breath and flicked on the modified light-torch, focusing it on the prismlike receptor crystal.

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