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Die Hülle der Shellback war nach ihrer haarscharfen Begegnung mit der neuentfachten Proto-Sonne versengt, aber allein die Tatsache, daß sie diese Tortur überstanden hatte, gab ihm die Gewißheit, daß sie von dem primitiven Luftfahrer nichts zu befürchten hatten.
The Shellback’s singed appearance after a close encounter with the priming flash of a newly-struck luminary was grotesque, but its ability to survive such an ordeal underscored the point that anything this primitive aviator might have flung at them was so irrelevant that even to have mentioned it would have been offensive.
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