noon
One gun would n't save him . He put it aside . The button radio on his collar was working and had a strong enough signal to get through any number of walls . He took off his coat , threw open the door and stepped out into the searing brilliance of the Disan noon . There was only the desert silence , broken by the steady throb of the car 's motor behind him . Stretching away to the horizon in every direction was the eternal desert of sand . The keep stood nearby , solitary , a massive pile of black rock .