Ujuk led them to an inner portal which gave admission to the refectory.

I went through the inner portal, the short tunnel, crouching because only someone under five feet could pass this way without stooping.

Still cloaked, he was through the inner portals.

Everyone is allowed to freely enter the inner portals of the temple and reach very near to the goddess.

Then he turned, went along the passage and went through the inner portal, closing it behind him.

Once in the small room between the inner and outer portals, he walked over to the line of lockers.

At the inner portal of the exit he turned to wait for her.

The upper left quarter pictured the ship's topside airlock, viewed from just inside and above the inner portal.

He tried the inner portal; it was locked from within.

He got to the inner portal, but the eddies there were too strong to go farther.