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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: but the shield had deflected the missile and I was unscathed.
Jubal was rushing upon me now with the only remaining
weapon that he carried--a murderous-looking knife.
He was too close for a careful bowshot, but I let drive
at him as he came, without taking aim. My arrow pierced
the fleshy part of his thigh, inflicting a painful
but not disabling wound. And then he was upon me.
My agility saved me for the instant. I ducked beneath
his raised arm, and when he wheeled to come at me again he
found a sword's point in his face. And a moment later he
felt an inch or two of it in the muscles of his knife arm,
At the Earth's Core |
