She professed to have lost her sister, she blundered needlessly into him he thought, caught hold of him and laughed.

But a word of vague remonstrance sent her into the unseen again.
The sounds about him increased.

Stumbling people passed him, speaking excitedly.

"They have surrendered!" "The Council! Surely not the Council!" "They are saying so in the Ways." The passage seemed wider.
Suddenly the wall fell away.

He was in a great space and people were stirring remotely.