| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | 173 | I then View more quotes about understood">understood, from his words, the meaning of the scarcity of food in the pit. |
| 16 | 174 | When the hunting is good, one hunts. |
| 16 | 175 | One can return later to earlier kills, driving away scavenging lelts. |
| 16 | 176 | Further, I wondered at the salt shark, blind, living in total darkness. |
| 16 | 177 | Yet it hunted at dusk, and at dawn, driven apparently by ancient biological rhythms. |
| 16 | 178 | The long-bodied, ghostly creature, hunting in the black waters, followed still the rhythms of its dark clock, set for its species a quarter of a billion years ago in a vanished, distant, sunlit world. |
| 16 | 179 | "Make haste!" cried the steersman. |