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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pellucidar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: lie very quietly in the thick grass among the brilliant
wild flowers.
Those behind him halted. One of them hurled a
javelin toward me, but it fell short--they were just
beyond javelin-range. There were two armed with bows
and arrows; these I kept my eyes on. All of them
appeared awe-struck and frightened by the sound and
effect of the firearm. They kept looking from the corpse
to me and jabbering among themselves.
I took advantage of the lull in hostilities to throw
a quick glance over the edge toward Dian. She was
Pellucidar | 
