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"When it passed," she said, "I was overjoyed, for I was still alive, but I was then, almost immediately, sick with fear, for such a beast or beasts, I thought, might even now be following my tracks, from Ar, having been given my scent from my discarded robes". - (Mariners of Gor, Chapter 3, Sentence #743)

Sleen can be terribly dangerous to humans, but the human is not its familiar prey. The sleen, in the wild a burrowing, largely nocturnal animal, is a tenacious, obsessive, single-minded hunter, a supreme tracker. On one scent it will often pass by, even ignore, more ample or superior prey. "When it passed," she said, "I was overjoyed, for I was still alive, but I was then, almost immediately, sick with fear, for such a beast or beasts, I thought, might even now be following my tracks, from Ar, having been given my scent from my discarded robes". Her apprehension was well-warranted. Indeed, it is not unknown for sleen to have discovered and followed tracks which are several days old. "I walked much of the night," she said, "keeping to the direction others had taken. - (Mariners of Gor)