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| 18 | 7 | Furthermore, when a View more quotes about sleen">sleen would fasten on a given girl she would permit herself, rapidly, to be returned to the pen. |
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| 18 | 4 | The herd sleen rushed among them but, confused in the numbers, found it difficult to single out women for returning to the pen. |
| 18 | 5 | Similarly the marine predator attacking a school of shimmering, flashing bodies makes fewer successful strikes than he would if he were able, undistracted, to single out individual quarries. |
| 18 | 6 | A sleen would no sooner mark out a girl for return to the pen than three or four others would constantly enter and disappear from his ken, often luring him into their pursuit, while the first slips free, in her turn later perhaps to save another similarly. |
| 18 | 7 | Furthermore, when a sleen would fasten on a given girl she would permit herself, rapidly, to be returned to the pen. |
| 18 | 8 | Thus the sleen, obedient to its training, would not harm her. |
| 18 | 9 | As soon as she was back in the pen, of course, she would leave it again, escaping from a different sector. |
| 18 | 10 | Any girl found remaining in the pen by a man of Torvaldsland, seeking her own safety, unless she had been ordered there by a free attacker, was to be summarily slain. |