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| 8 | 18 | "Back," View more quotes about called">called Thurnus, coming to the sleen and putting a rope on its neck, dragging it away from the cage. |
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| 8 | 15 | Once its snout thrust against me, and I whimpered. |
| 8 | 16 | I smelled its breath, felt the heat of it on my flesh. |
| 8 | 17 | The bars were wet where it had bit at them; the ground, too, about the cage was wet where the beast's saliva, in its frenzy, its lust for killing, had dampened the clawed dust. |
| 8 | 18 | "Back," called Thurnus, coming to the sleen and putting a rope on its neck, dragging it away from the cage. |
| 8 | 19 | "Gentle! Gentle, Fierce One!" coaxed Thurnus. |
| 8 | 20 | He thrust his head near the large, brown snout, cooing and clicking, his hands in the rope on its throat. |
| 8 | 21 | He whispered in its ear. |