The earthman came out of his daze at the sight of the other.
Then a swirl of other Mercutians anxious to get at the earthman eddied him out of view.
They know I took an earthman, and I fear they have finished with the others.
The earthman rubbed sweat from his eyes with the back of a muddy hand.
No giant, but tall for an earthman—almost as tall as myself.
Then he pointed to the comparatively thin arms of the earthman, and to his own.
It was a sight the like of which no earthman had ever before seen.
"Then it shouldn't have been introduced," Reif said, his eyes unflinching from the earthman's.
The Kerothi stepped back a pace and looked the earthman up and down.
Tallis had something to say, but he was allowing the earthman to "adjust to surprise."
