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And the vats which had taken the places of the banked greenery were certainly nothing to look at. Queex humped itself into a clod of blue, immovable, halfway down the aisle. Dane tried to subdue his breathing, to listen. The Hoobat's actions certainly argued that the alien thing had taken refuge here, though how it had gotten through ? But if it were in the hydro it was well hidden.
Wearing gloves Ali detached the little monsters from their holds on the wood and put them for temporary safekeeping during a transfer to the deep freeze into the Hoobat's cage. Queex, they decided to leave where it was for a space, to awaken and trap any survivor which had been too wary to emerge at the first siren song.
Dane remained where he was until it had almost reached the deck of the next level and then he followed, one step at a time. He was sure that the Hoobat's peculiar construction of body prevented it from looking up unless it turned upon its back but he did not want to do anything which would alarm it or deter Queex from what he was sure was a methodical chase.
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