The prefix “vor-” means to “eat greedily.” For example, the word “voracious” means “ravenous” and “insatiable,” both words having to do with the idea of greed. Based on this information, what would you predict is the meaning of the word vortex, as used in

I think this means the powerful force of the story pulling away or towards.

I knew very well that all he said was ridiculous, not light for their darkness but flattery, illusion, a vortex pulling them from sunlight to heat, a kind of midsummer burgeoning, waltz to the sickle.