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| 53 | 222 | Then there View more quotes about seemed">seemed a frenzy of activity within, an energetic wriggling, and the whole head and a shoulder emerged, ears laid back, all glistening and bloody, and blood began to run down the side of the womb, profusely, and Cabot stepped back, further, and then, suddenly, a small body emerged, and clung to the outside of the womb, head downward, its claws fastened in the skin, and then it dropped to the floor, belly down, and more blood flowed about, and Cabot stepped even further away. |
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| 53 | 219 | There was then more blood and then, clearly, in moments, a tiny head appeared, with red fangs. |
| 53 | 220 | Tiny reddish eyes then opened, perhaps for the first time, tiny, blazing eyes, and glared balefully outward at Cabot. |
| 53 | 221 | Then a small paw, with claws, thrust through the widening hole, tearing at it, scratching at it, widening it. |
| 53 | 222 | Then there seemed a frenzy of activity within, an energetic wriggling, and the whole head and a shoulder emerged, ears laid back, all glistening and bloody, and blood began to run down the side of the womb, profusely, and Cabot stepped back, further, and then, suddenly, a small body emerged, and clung to the outside of the womb, head downward, its claws fastened in the skin, and then it dropped to the floor, belly down, and more blood flowed about, and Cabot stepped even further away. |
| 53 | 223 | He was then aware of movements about his feet, and several of the tiny urtlike scavengers in the tunnel rushed toward the blood, crouched down in it, and began to lap it up, and one was caught by a hind foot and pulled squealing backward toward the newcomer, and Cabot turned away, and continued down the tunnel. |
| 53 | 224 | "Do not be disturbed," said Lord Grendel. |
| 53 | 225 | "Is a human birth so different? Does not life begin in brutality, just as it often ends in such, as well?" "What of the womb, its rupture, its wound?" asked Cabot. |