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| 8 | 279 | In an instant I was on her, View more quotes about kneeling">kneeling across her back, my left hand across her mouth, pulling her head up, painfully, and back. |
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| 8 | 276 | I reached to the side, to pick up a length of chain which lay there, one of several, doubtless ready for securing slaves, anticipated perhaps as prizes from the afternoon's caravan raid. |
| 8 | 277 | Alyena turned, and, with a cry, fled from the tent, toward the dust. |
| 8 | 278 | The length of chain, hurled from my hand, bola-like, caught her about the ankles, whipping about, and she, in a flurry of skirt and blond hair, sprawled, hands outstretched, to the dust. |
| 8 | 279 | In an instant I was on her, kneeling across her back, my left hand across her mouth, pulling her head up, painfully, and back. |
| 8 | 280 | I then put my right hand swiftly over her mouth, before she could cry out, and, my left hand in her hair, pulled her to her feet and dragged her back into the tent. |
| 8 | 281 | I looked about, and found some materials at hand, which I kicked together into a pile on the mats. |
| 8 | 282 | I then put her on her back on the mats, and, kneeling across her body, I pinned her in place. |