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| 13 | 264 | She had no View more quotes about doubt">doubt that the man was cursing, and richly, the failure of his strike. |
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| 13 | 261 | There was a wild cry, piercing, at hand, not more than fifteen feet above her, surely the loudest and most terrifying sound she had ever heard, as of some living, immense, monstrous creature, and she was in shadow and then not in shadow, in a shadow that moved and leapt and was shattered with bursts of sunlight, and then darkness, and clothing was torn from the lines by the blasts of wind from the smitings of mighty wings, and one of the racks, seized in monstrous talons, broke into a thousand pieces, and, lifted, fell in a shower of sticks, raining down to the roof. |
| 13 | 262 | Ellen could not believe what she saw. |
| 13 | 263 | Above her, now darting away, was a gigantic bird, an enormous bird, a saddlebird, its wings with a span of thirty or more feet, and, seemingly tiny on its back, was a helmeted man! Ellen had heard an angry cry from the man above her, and words in Gorean she did not recognize, words that had certainly never been taught to her, a slave girl. |
| 13 | 264 | She had no doubt that the man was cursing, and richly, the failure of his strike. |
| 13 | 265 | Then they were away. |
| 13 | 266 | To be sure, how could he have hoped to make a catch when the girls were hidden by the laundry, protected by the lines, could take refuge under the racks, and such? Ellen was now on her knees amidst the lines, her hands lifted, as though she might fend away blows. |
| 13 | 267 | Nelsa sped past her, laughing, and clambered to the height of the nearest undamaged rack. |