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| 14 | 308 | That View more quotes about meant">meant he must close the gap between us, must move toward me, and this, in the water, given the absence of footing, the presence of the foliage, could not be easily done. |
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| 14 | 305 | "Die, Sleen!" he cried, tearing himself upward, out of the vines, the right hand dripping with water, the sun flashing on the wet blade in its grasp. |
| 14 | 306 | I had not given him my hand. |
| 14 | 307 | I had kept back, a little. |
| 14 | 308 | That meant he must close the gap between us, must move toward me, and this, in the water, given the absence of footing, the presence of the foliage, could not be easily done. |
| 14 | 309 | He was trying to scramble toward me, half in water, half out, over the raft of vegetation. |
| 14 | 310 | The knife struck out at me twice, three times. |
| 14 | 311 | I backed away as I could, slipping, half sinking through the vines, while he, similarly hampered, cursing, pursued me, foot by foot. |