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| 48 | 55 | I View more quotes about remained">remained perfectly still. |
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| 48 | 52 | Too, if there were any warrant for my fears, why had I not, in all this time, if it were a predator, been attacked? To bring down, and feed upon, a prey such as I might be, an unarmed kajira in the forest, would pose no difficulty to any likely predator. |
| 48 | 53 | I lacked the stealth and speed of the tabuk, the horns of the forest bosk, the tusks of the tarsk boar. |
| 48 | 54 | But clearly, now, there was not one, but two beasts, that which had emerged from the brush of the riverside, where, suddenly disturbed, it might have been drinking, and the other, still unseen, in the brush to my right. |
| 48 | 55 | I remained perfectly still. |
| 48 | 56 | I think this was less wisdom than a consequence of the fact that I found myself unable to move. |
| 48 | 57 | I suppose I was too frightened. |
| 48 | 58 | But, too, more consciously, I did realize, even if I felt I could move, any swift movement on my part would be likely to trigger the pursuit response common in most predators. |