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He ignored the fading hoofbeats of the slave-animal from which he had knocked the thing that lay on the ground with a crushed skull. The slave-animal was unintelligent and unimportant. This was the intelligent one. But so slow! So incredibly slow! And so weak and soft!
It seemed impossible that such poorly-equipped beasts could have survived long enough on any world to evolve to become the dominant life form. Perhaps it was not the dominant form. Perhaps it was merely a higher slave-animal. He would have to do more investigating. He picked up the weapon the thing had drawn and examined it carefully.
Surely no being would carry a weapon for use against members of its own or another intelligent species. He examined the rest of the equipment on the thing. Not much information there. Too bad the slave-animal was gone; there had apparently been more equipment strapped to it. The next question was, what should he do with the body? Devour it properly, as one should with a validly slain foe?
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