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  • This time, the penestral was struck just behind one crystal-like eye the size of a telescope mirror.

    For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • A distant crump reached the surface as the harpoon's delayed charge went off inside the guts of the penestral.

    For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • Flinx inspected what he could see of the penestral while the jet boat headed back toward the southern shore.

    For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • An instant later a geyser erupted bebind them as the penestral tried to swallow the sky.

    For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • As the boat swung back toward the penestral, Flinx heard the gun go off again.

    For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • Lauren had moored the inflated penestral to a buoy nearby.

    For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • For a third time, the penestral struck, snapping in frustration at the spot where the jet boat had been only seconds earlier.

    For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • The lodge's share of profit from the disposal of the penestral ought to defray all the operating expenses.

    For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • A muffled explosion sounded from the stern, and a moment later its echo reached him as the harpoon struck the penestral just beneath one of the winglike fins that shielded its gills.

    For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • A distant crump reached the surface as the harpoon's delayed charge went off inside the guts of the penestral.

    For Love of Mother-Not Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

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