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| 17 | 19 | And about the top of the defile were now View more quotes about better">better than two dozen humans again hurling stones downward, stones easily the size of a man's head. |
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| 17 | 16 | Then several boulders, rolled to the edge of the height by more than one man, were tumbled down the steep sides of the defile, and bounded into the defile. |
| 17 | 17 | Two Kurii were struck by these objects, one squarely in the chest, and he staggered back and lost his footing, and fell against the wall, and then, scratching at the wall, and turning, he regained his feet, and, in fury, raised his arms and sought to roar, but the sound was odd, half choked, air and blood rushing from the fanged jaws. |
| 17 | 18 | Then he seemed dazed, and disoriented, and staggered again, and then fell, and then spat blood into the dirt. |
| 17 | 19 | And about the top of the defile were now better than two dozen humans again hurling stones downward, stones easily the size of a man's head. |
| 17 | 20 | The Kurii were disconcerted, and surely taken unawares. |
| 17 | 21 | Then, in the confusion, several humans, screaming, and carrying their pointed sticks, slid into the defile, and others rushed forward, through the opening. |
| 17 | 22 | The Kurii had not encountered humans in this manner before, for humans had always fled from them. |