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| 15 | 58 | I set her View more quotes about down">down gently against the far wall of the cliff, as far from the edge as I could. |
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| 15 | 55 | I pulled the locked talons from her body, calling to the tarn, shoving its legs back. |
| 15 | 56 | The bird seemed puzzled. |
| 15 | 57 | Had I not cried "Tabuk!"? Was this thing it had seized not now to be devoured? Was it not prey? I shoved the tarn back and away from the girl, and gathered her in my arms. |
| 15 | 58 | I set her down gently against the far wall of the cliff, as far from the edge as I could. |
| 15 | 59 | The rocky shelf on which we found ourselves was perhaps twenty feet wide and twenty feet deep, about the size that a tarn chooses for nesting. |
| 15 | 60 | Standing between the Tatrix and the winged carnivore, I cried "Tabuk!" It began to stalk toward the girl, who rose to her knees, her back pressed against the unyielding wall of the cliff, and screamed. |
| 15 | 61 | "Tabuk!" I cried again, taking the great beak in my hands and turning it toward the open fields below. |