We paused before a slab of the same crimson stone as that the green dwarf had called the portal, and upon its polished surface weaved the same unnameable symbols.

As silently as once before we had gone we passed out of the place of light, beyond the crimson stone, back to the handmaiden's chamber.

He had a present for her, a gold ring with a glinting crimson stone in the center.

The limousine drew to a halt at the end of a queue of similar vehicles that extended into a stately portico of crimson stone.

It stopped abruptly-was cut off by a slab of polished crimson stone a hundred feet high, and as wide, set within the coppery face of the barrier.

Deep, deep indeed, we must be beneath the domed castle-Lakla paused before a curved, smooth breast of the crimson stone rounding gently into the passage.

Lakla softly closed the crimson stone.

A double-handed claymore was plunged into the earth before him, its hilt a glistening silver, while a huge crimson stone was set into the pommel.

Brummond's voice rang from the crimson stones.

Lauria was a tall, sturdy woman, her gray hair shorn close about her head, one ear bearing an earring with a carved ensign and a crimson stone.