| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 26 | 345 | The View more quotes about blood">blood on it, in the moment it had been left alone, had frozen on the steel. |
| 26 | 346 | Two sleen fought to lick the frozen blood from the blade. |
| 26 | 347 | Instantly as the blade cut their lips and tongue there was again hot, fresh blood on the steel. |
| 26 | 348 | A sleen can kill itself in this manner, licking at the blade until it bleeds to death. |
| 26 | 349 | Arlene and Audrey looked away. |
| 26 | 350 | But no sleen that night bled to death, a victim of the simple, cruel trap, for there were too many animals present with too great a hunger to permit this to occur. |
| 26 | 351 | As a sleen weakened, or the stimulus of the blood became too great, other animals, tortured by their own hunger, attacked it. |