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| 31 | 181 | The egg develops View more quotes about inside">inside the body of the blood-nurser and, some months later, it tears its way free". |
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| 31 | 178 | "The egg-carrier is the female," I said. |
| 31 | 179 | "If you like," said the beast, "but, shortly after impregnation, within a moon, the egg-carrier deposits the fertilized seed in the third form of Kur, which is mouthed, but sluggish and immobile. |
| 31 | 180 | These fasten themselves to hard surfaces, rather like dark, globular anemones. |
| 31 | 181 | The egg develops inside the body of the blood-nurser and, some months later, it tears its way free". |
| 31 | 182 | "It has no mother," I said. |
| 31 | 183 | "Not in the human sense," it said. |
| 31 | 184 | "It will, however, usually follow, unless it itself is a blood-nurser, which is drawn out, the first Kur it sees, providing it is either an egg-carrier or a nondominant". |