Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 45 | 61 | It could not View more quotes about understand">understand me, of course, for it had no translator. |
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Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 45 | 58 | Then, gently, it released me, and I stepped back. |
| 45 | 59 | There was no mistaking the seared pockets of tissue marking where once large, glistening eyes had glowed. |
| 45 | 60 | "You are alive!" I said. |
| 45 | 61 | It could not understand me, of course, for it had no translator. |
| 45 | 62 | But it might have detected something of the shock and amazement in my voice. |
| 45 | 63 | Certainly it was familiar with the sounds humans made, from its captors, from the carnival, from the house of Epicrates, perhaps even from before its capture, from the Cave, and from after its brief return to the Cave, before its banishment into the wilderness. |
| 45 | 64 | Looking on this beast, not on the brink of starvation, not half dead, but alert and sound, I realized the explanation for Grendel's many departures from the Cave. |
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Then, gently, it released me, and I stepped back.
There was no mistaking the seared pockets of tissue marking where once large, glistening eyes had glowed.
"You are alive!" I said.
It could not understand me, of course, for it had no translator.
But it might have detected something of the shock and amazement in my voice.
Certainly it was familiar with the sounds humans made, from its captors, from the carnival, from the house of Epicrates, perhaps even from before its capture, from the Cave, and from after its brief return to the Cave, before its banishment into the wilderness.
Looking on this beast, not on the brink of starvation, not half dead, but alert and sound, I realized the explanation for Grendel's many departures from the Cave.
- (Conspirators of Gor)