Together we lunged for the tunnel by which we had entered. I stood a
moment, gazing back upon the strewn and scattered room.
The delicate nerve-center of Wandl. Heavy green-black gas fumes
swirled in it; darkness and silence closed down.
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Over us was turmoil, that screaming siren. Then suddenly it was
checked and we heard the thump and swish of what on Earth would have
been called running footsteps and shouts.