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| 46 | 24 | View more quotes about almost">Almost at the same time another pair of Kurii, for the guard is doubled after dark, joined them, these carrying spears. |
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| 46 | 21 | Later, on the night of my reentry into the Cave, I became aware that some relationship existed between the two, although, at the time, I did not understand its nature. |
| 46 | 22 | In any event, while I backed against the wall, fearing to move, the beast passed me, moving to my right, where it would, in effect, some yards out, cross the slope before the portal. |
| 46 | 23 | It was scarcely across from the portal when an alarm rang out, and two Kurii, lifting lanterns, ran to the threshold of the portal. |
| 46 | 24 | Almost at the same time another pair of Kurii, for the guard is doubled after dark, joined them, these carrying spears. |
| 46 | 25 | In the light of the lanterns the eyes of the larl, catching the light, the body turned toward the portal in the darkness, blazed like tarn disks of gold. |
| 46 | 26 | The two Kurii with lanterns began to swing them about, which cast startling, darting, awkward shadows on the slope. |
| 46 | 27 | The two with spears brandished their weapons and stepped threateningly toward the larl, but did not, I noted, much leave the vicinity of the threshold. |