[Not that. Never that. They're going to come back any minute now. Any minute it's going to start turning around. If it doesn't, they'll make it. They'll FIGHT with every inch of determination available to them, every scrap, biting and clawing and scratching until something relents and they can get out, and away, and free.]
[The arms holding them, pinioning them, are disturbingly gentle.]
[It doesn't mean anything.]
[It just means they're going to be all the more fierce, when the inevitable strike whips back and around to greet them.]
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[No.]
[Not that. Never that. They're going to come back any minute now. Any minute it's going to start turning around. If it doesn't, they'll make it. They'll FIGHT with every inch of determination available to them, every scrap, biting and clawing and scratching until something relents and they can get out, and away, and free.]
[The arms holding them, pinioning them, are disturbingly gentle.]
[It doesn't mean anything.]
[It just means they're going to be all the more fierce, when the inevitable strike whips back and around to greet them.]