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All were unarmed; but the muscles of their heavy shoulders, the gorilla-like dangle of their steel-fingered hands produced an effect more ominous even than the gleam of simitars in the dim cressets' light would have been. Along the walls these black barbarians disposed themselves, a full hundred or more, saying nothing, seeming to see nothing, mere human automata.
He too recognized the boy as the one who had visited him in the hospital. He acted instantly. He stepped forward, and dropped a steel-fingered hand on Asa's shoulder. "One single word, and I'll kill you right here," muttered the Wolf, and Asa felt that it was no idle threat. Asa did not need to be spoken to again.
Ennar, disconcerted by the too-quick success of his attack, was unprepared for this. Ross rolled, trying to escape steel-fingered hands, his own chopping out in edgewise blows, striving to serve Ennar as he had Tulka.
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