kyren

Several minutes of hard riding later, it was still impossible to make out individual kyren, but their collective screeching had come to dominate all other sounds on the prairie.

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By the time she finally saw where Kyakhta was leading them, the collective cries of the millions upon millions of kyren were a steady stabbing in her ears.

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"Though she had never seen a kyren in her life, she trusted that Kyakhta had seen something more substantial than a mirage, and more solid than faint hope.

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"On a collision course, kyren flock and speeding travelers drew rapidly toward one another.

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"Would their pillar, and those shielding their companions, be able to withstand the relentless pressure of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of kyren hurling themselves aimlessly against it?

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"I know you have the means for contacting Cuipernam and calling for rescue, but not even an armored landing speeder could force its way through a kyren flock.

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"When the grasses in one area mature and the heads of each stalk are ripe with seed, the kyren resumes its flight, eating until it is sated.

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"Even after a kyren is cooked, it tastes like boiled mud.

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"With the airspace on all sides of them occupied, hemmed in above by tens of thousands of their brethren, the kyren that slammed into the pillar were compelled to sacrifice themselves out of instinct, and not a desire to commit mass suicide.

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"A small mountain of kyren bodies, hundreds of them, formed a perfect line pointing northward from the back of each column.

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