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Thirty yards to his right and left, the hadals settled in, too.
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For seven months he had been gathering evidence of the hadals' diaspora.
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The hadals owned the night in a place where night was forever.
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Far below, hadals crouching around their human windfall glanced up at him.
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On the brink of unconsciousness, he felt the hadals pounce on him.
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This storm of hadals would have swept through like a summer shower.
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There-had been isolated cases of individual hadals living in captivity on the surface.
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Obviously the hadals had taken her in and made her one of them.
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Before the blindfold, she'd seen him orchestrating the hadals, commanding them, delegating tasks.
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Yet here he was, caged beneath the ground, faced with hadals.
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Off in the distance, the hadals were chirping and clicking to one another.
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With or without his homing device, the hadals could still find the man.
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At first she thought they were hadals cupping hands over eyes.
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Then he realized the hadals were trying to break his lightbulb.
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He was adroit, even artistic about it, and his status among hadals reflected it.
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She'd be looking throughout the fortress, now swarming with hadals.
