It blew up with considerably more force, sending shards of slick black metal flying.

Her palms squealed on die slick metal as she struggled futilely to keep her place.

A seam cracked the slick metal.

With an awful groan, the archway tilted, and they began to slide across the slick metal into the empty air beyond.

The surfaces of the vast interior were not stone, but slick white metal, and the wide corridors broken by hundreds of entranceways seemed to stretch into infinity.

He felt first a sense of cold as the blackness closed around his hand, then slick metal against his fingers and a prickling as though his hand were asleep.

Discomforting warmth itched across the surface of her palms, and she suspected she'd left more than just a few layers of skin behind on the slick metal.

(Bedbugs have a tough time crawling up slick metal or glass surfaces.)

She climbed carefully up to join Diana, her hands and feet slipping on the slick metal, and looked at what theesper had found.