subawanean

[Doug Millison]

Val realised, that in referring to the shaft as being subterranean, 
he was subconsiously thinking in terrestrial terms. The shaft led 
from the ground, true, and they were moving equally into the ground 
but it was not a subterranean shaft. In all truth and honesty the 
word subterranean could only be employed, thought Val, for that which 
was under the Earth. A shaft which merely sank into Awan, 6th Planet 
of Polaris, was not subterranean, but subawanean.

Nemesis
Writing as Bron Fane


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