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| 37 | 184 | View more quotes about again">Again the two sleen, first the larger, then the smaller, approached, and stopped. |
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| 37 | 181 | Then the larger sleen, scarcely lifting its belly from the floor, crawled quickly forward a foot or two, snarling, and stopped. |
| 37 | 182 | His companion, to his right, did the same. |
| 37 | 183 | I knew little or nothing of sleen, but the intent, the agitation, the excitement of the animals, was evident. |
| 37 | 184 | Again the two sleen, first the larger, then the smaller, approached, and stopped. |
| 37 | 185 | "Draw," said the leader of the strangers. |
| 37 | 186 | But before blades could leave their sheaths the first animal scrambled forward, snarling, charging, its hind feet scratching and slipping, spattering urine back, just for an instant, on the floor of the passage. |
| 37 | 187 | The second animal was at its shoulder, scarcely a fang's breadth behind. |