TEXT: back in the corridor , one of the mercenaries who was directly below the aperture in the ceiling - technically the floor - stared up and through it in disbelief . he did not crouch . he did not notice the moaning guardian until it had grabbed his head with both hands and hauled him off the floor . he screamed as he was thrown through the aperture . if the guardian had intended his body to plummet to the top of the pillar below the aperture , then it had n't taken into account exactly why he had been standing on what , to it , was the
ceiling