Pearl of Patmos

FLAMES… Smoke, pungent and stinging, in his eyes and nostrils, made him cough and retch. Blade, his head a mass of pain, opened his eyes and saw fire devouring wooden beams high above him. He lay on hot stone, the floor of a vast temple. Naked, unarmed – stunned by his trip through time, Blade had never before been so physically weakened, so nearly paralyzed by the electronic restructuring of his brain cells. He was in Dimension X again, in immediate danger of being burned alive or crushed. It was to be another hellish ride into and through a new dimension on the very edge of the incredible…