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| 1 | 15 | This story, in its way, has no View more quotes about clear">clear beginning. |
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| 1 | 12 | We know little about that species of animal called the Kur. |
| 1 | 13 | We do know it is bloodthirsty, that it feeds on human flesh, and that it is concerned with glory. |
| 1 | 14 | "It is not unlike men," had once said Misk to me, a Priest-King. |
| 1 | 15 | This story, in its way, has no clear beginning. |
| 1 | 16 | It began, I suppose, some thousands of years ago when Kurii, in internecine wars, destroyed the viability of a native world. |
| 1 | 17 | Their state at that time was sufficiently advanced technologically to construct small steel worlds in orbit, each some pasangs in diameter. |
| 1 | 18 | The remnants of a shattered species then, as a world burned below them, turned hunting to the plains of the stars. |