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| 17 | 48 | It commonly swims View more quotes about slowly">slowly, smoothly, conserving energy in the black, saline world encompassing its existence. |
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| 17 | 45 | It was enclosed in my hand. |
| 17 | 46 | It struggled briefly, then lay still. |
| 17 | 47 | The lelt is a small fish, long-bodied for its size, long-finned. |
| 17 | 48 | It commonly swims slowly, smoothly, conserving energy in the black, saline world encompassing its existence. |
| 17 | 49 | There is little to eat in that world; it is a liquid desert, almost barren, black, blind and cool. |
| 17 | 50 | It swims slowly, conserving its energy, not alerting its prey, commonly flatworms and tiny segmented creatures, predominantly isopods. |
| 17 | 51 | I turned the lelt, looking at the small, sunken, covered pits in the sides of its head. |