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| 47 | 361 | Then the two beasts, as View more quotes about though">though they had satisfied themselves, squatted down, their hind legs under them, facing one another. |
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| 47 | 358 | The hair on the back of my neck rose. |
| 47 | 359 | Was it like this, I wondered, in the ancient days of the Kurii, long before the steel worlds, long before, even, the development of their technology. |
| 47 | 360 | Is it like this, I wondered, even today, in the steel ships, in the "killings". |
| 47 | 361 | Then the two beasts, as though they had satisfied themselves, squatted down, their hind legs under them, facing one another. |
| 47 | 362 | To a superficial observer, they might have seemed somnolent. |
| 47 | 363 | But I could sense the ripple of muscle, the tingle of nerve, beneath the fur in those mighty bodies. |
| 47 | 364 | They were somnolent as a gun is somnolent, one with a finger tensed, poised, upon its trigger. |