`` albert looked into the blue glow of those eyes and the last of his defiance drained away '' , ' she read , ' `` for he saw not just death but death with all the human seasonings of vengeance and cruelty and distaste , and with a terrible certainty he knew that this was the last chance and mort would send him back into time and hunt him down and take him and deliver him bodily into the dark dungeon dimensions where creatures of horror would dot dot dot dot dot '' , ' she finished .