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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs: plains of Pellucidar. I was fortunate, I think, to return
to Phutra at all. As it was I barely escaped death within
the jaws of a huge sithic. No, I am sure that I am safer
in the hands of intelligent creatures such as rule Phutra.
At least such would be the case in my own world, where human
beings like myself rule supreme. There the higher races
of man extend protection and hospitality to the stranger
within their gates, and being a stranger here I naturally
assumed that a like courtesy would be accorded me."
The Mahar looked at me in silence for some time after I
ceased speaking and the Sagoth had translated my words
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