He lowered his head and saw what he first thought was blood on the floor of the altar platform.

Celeste asked, following him along the presbytery to the altar platform.

The cloth was pulled taut across the altar platform.

Trungpa walked in tipsy and sat on the edge of the altar platform with his feet dangling.

Tyson walked behind Corva, across the red carpet of the altar platform.

On the floor of the altar platform they found Calhoun struggling.

The three of them continued on to the altar platform, from which all of the ceremonial objects had been removed.

Holding hands, forming a human chain, they stumbled out of that room and onto the altar platform.

Nor would they tell me anything definite about the lady called Shadow, whom I had seen upon the altar platform.

Through the door he had a sideview of the towering crucifix on the back wall and the altar platform straight ahead.