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| 21 | 506 | I counted View more quotes about slowly">slowly, five thousand Ihn, that the reflexes of the Kur within be drawn to a hair-trigger alertness, that the whole nervous might of the beast might be balanced on a razor's edge of response, that every instinct and fiber in his body would scream to press the trigger at what first might move. |
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| 21 | 503 | One thing the Kur would not expect would be that I would surrender the shield of invisibility; one thing he would not expect would be that it would be I, myself, who would present myself to his weapon. |
| 21 | 504 | I clung to the side of the portal. |
| 21 | 505 | I propped the body beside me, holding it that it not be swept from the side of the ship. |
| 21 | 506 | I counted slowly, five thousand Ihn, that the reflexes of the Kur within be drawn to a hair-trigger alertness, that the whole nervous might of the beast might be balanced on a razor's edge of response, that every instinct and fiber in his body would scream to press the trigger at what first might move. |
| 21 | 507 | But I counted, too, on its intelligence, its control, that it would not fire on what first might move, particularly if it were visible. |
| 21 | 508 | The wind howled and the sand swirled about the ship. |
| 21 | 509 | I pressed the circular switch on the ring tied about my neck. |