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| 18 | 36 | View more quotes about indeed">Indeed, it was even lower toward the edge now, and had humped itself in my vicinity, as though in time it might climb my body and, in some hours perhaps, engulf me. |
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| 18 | 33 | My feet and legs felt cold and yet as if they were burning—presumably the acids of the pool were at work. |
| 18 | 34 | As nearly as I could determine the pool was thick, rubbery, gelatinous, only in the area near to my body. |
| 18 | 35 | I could see it rippling, and splashing a bit against the edge of the marbled basin. |
| 18 | 36 | Indeed, it was even lower toward the edge now, and had humped itself in my vicinity, as though in time it might climb my body and, in some hours perhaps, engulf me. |
| 18 | 37 | But doubtless by then I would have been half digested, much of me little more than a cream of fluids and proteins then mixing with and nourishing the substance of my devourer—the Yellow Pool of Turia. |
| 18 | 38 | I pushed now, with all my might, not toward the edge of the marbled basin, but rather toward the deepest part of the pool. |
| 18 | 39 | To my satisfaction I found that I could move, though barely, in this direction. |