Ellen saw Kardok's ears lift slightly, the great body stiffen.
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Though the men on tharlarion, the strangers, doubtless heard nothing, she had little doubt but what Portus Canio's soft remark, little more than a whisper, had been clearly audible to the beast.
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She feared, too, it might have been fully intelligible to that gross, shaggy auditor.
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"tal!" repeated Portus Canio.
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He was not answered.
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Mirus urged his tharlarion, a swift, bipedalian tharlarion, forward.
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He was then something like seven or eight yards from the wagon, some two or three yards before the line of his fellows, the beasts and the two sleen.
Ellen saw Kardok's ears lift slightly, the great body stiffen.
Though the men on tharlarion, the strangers, doubtless heard nothing, she had little doubt but what Portus Canio's soft remark, little more than a whisper, had been clearly audible to the beast.
She feared, too, it might have been fully intelligible to that gross, shaggy auditor.
"tal!" repeated Portus Canio.
He was not answered.
Mirus urged his tharlarion, a swift, bipedalian tharlarion, forward.
He was then something like seven or eight yards from the wagon, some two or three yards before the line of his fellows, the beasts and the two sleen.
- (Prize of Gor, Chapter )